opinion
OPEN THE CURTAINS
Public outcry helped stop the state’s worst proposed amendments to weaken Freedom of Information laws. But the new law still makes it harder to hold the government to account.
Beryl Lipton is an Investigative Researcher at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco-based international digital civil liberties organization. Beryl researches law enforcement surveillance technology and government transparency and extensively uses Freedom of Information laws and large-scale public records campaigns in her work.