As a newspaper reporter, one could say I’m biased toward government transparency and accountability.
My job entails covering the courts, which from day to day could mean a lot of things: one day a murder trial, the next day trying to understand and communicate changes to Delaware’s corporate code and the next trying to sort out why a woman who had no home was put in jail for a year for walking on Wilmington’s Market Street.
Part of my purpose is to dig into government actions that smell like they deserve some public scrutiny, and the primary tool for that is Delaware’s Freedom of Information Act , a law that exists to give everyone access to government activities…