Opinion: Pass Assembly Bill 469 to boost needed transparency in Sacramento
As us newshounds know, there are many times when the twain do not meet, when governments pay only lip service to the idea that what they have wrought must be accessible to the members of the citizenry they nominally serve. And who certainly pay their salaries.
A case in point just last week for our newspaper group — and thus for our readers’ right to know — came whena particular light rail extension from Los Angeles County into the Inland Empire was denied funding, whereas other Southern Californian transit projects got the big bucks. What were the required criteria to get the taxpayer funding, and why did the extension fail to make the grade?
These seem like reasonable questions for the press to ask in our quest to serve the public, and for government officials to answer. When we and our lawyers sought the answer in a formal written request on Feb. 14 to the California State Transportation Agency seeking documents that explained the process, “the agency cited exemptions in the state public records law and did not provide information about the rail funding process,” as staff writer Steve Scauzillo reported last Saturday. “The request asked for documents explaining why 16 transit projects in the state were awarded $2.
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