13 Investigates routinely makes public information requests to local officials’ offices and agencies to keep our viewers informed about what the government is doing.
Sometimes we know what we can expect when asking government officials for information. But ultimately, we have to trust that the person fulfilling our request gives us everything we’ve asked for, and when they choose to redact something, we have to trust that it is for a legitimate legal reason.
Rarely do we get a chance to verify that those things are happening, but after making similar requests to different government agencies, we received different responses…