Californians Aware

California’s shadow government

A watchdog group tests state agencies’ compliance with open-records law; many fail

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Editorial, The Orange County Register This is Sunshine Week – observed not to celebrate our weather but to focus attention on the rights of citizens to have ready access to public records. Unfortunately, like our overcast skies in recent days, not that much sunshine has been breaking through the operations of government.
    
A report released Tuesday by Californians Aware, a group that defends citizens’ rights to examine government, found that almost every state agency it examined failed to comply with state full-disclosure laws.
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