It’s clear that elected officials don’t share the public’s wishes. Here’s a reasonable way to give IGs access to records otherwise protected by the Maryland Public Information Act. [OP-ED]
It’s a discouraging commentary on attitudes toward inspectors general by many state and local officials that the movement to restrict direct access to agency records by local inspectors general so quickly spread beyond Baltimore.
I find the role of local government attorneys in those jurisdictions especially disappointing…