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Growing secrecy limits government accountability

  • Written by David Cuillier, Director of the Brechner Freedom of Information Project, College of Journalism and Communications, University of Florida
imageWhen government officials block access to information, the public suffers.fstop123/E+ via Getty Images

When I started covering crime as a reporter for small newspapers in the 1980s, I was assigned to walk to the police department lobby each morning and look through all of the previous day’s police reports, clipped to a board on the counter,...

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