The people of Utah (myself included) are outraged by the House passing this bill, especially by the margin it passed.
I'd be interested to hear your line of thinking in voting in favor of Dougall's GRAMA changes bill. Let me note that I respect both of these men and they're good men, but they're dead wrong on this issue. Hillyard is the Senate sponsor for the bill, so I never really had much hope of changing minds. Butterfield already voted in favor of passing HB477 through the house, and Sen. I am still registered and maintain my vote in Logan, despite temporary dwelling in West Valley, so I contacted Rep. I'm pretty outraged by this, but the best I can do is contact my representatives. Hendrickson, to allow the media to be the public watchdog and make sure you and your cronies are keeping your hands clean. That's exactly one of the reasons it's there for, Rep. Hendrickson have been quoted in the press, however, as saying that allowing all e-mails to be public allows devils like THE MEDIA to go on "fishing expeditions" to try and dig up dirt on lawmakers. are presumed open to the public unless they contain material that allows them to be exempted from an open records request. Right now, e-mails, voice mails, text messages, etc.
The changes that are getting the most headlines are ones that exempt electronic communications from government officials from public scrutiny. John Dougall, a man who I respected by virtue of his limited government stance, introduced HB477, revisions to the Government Records Access Management Act, that makes many changes to Utah's open records laws, nearly all of them bad. This past week has been a bad one for open and transparent government in Utah.
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