Inside Opinion » Public Records Exemption Accountability Committee http://blog.thenewstribune.com/opinion What's on the minds of Tacoma News Tribune editorial writers Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:45:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Open government needs a vigilant champion http://blog.thenewstribune.com/opinion/2013/01/31/open-government-needs-a-vigilant-champion/ http://blog.thenewstribune.com/opinion/2013/01/31/open-government-needs-a-vigilant-champion/#comments Fri, 01 Feb 2013 01:45:02 +0000 TNT Editorial Board http://blog.thenewstribune.com/opinion/?p=15618 This editorial will appear in Friday’s print edition.

When it comes to being as open with citizens as required by state law, government doesn’t always get it right.

One thing it is doing right: employing a person whose sole job is to increase openness whenever possible. That’s the open-government ombudsman in the state Attorney General’s Office, a post created in 2005 by former Attorney General Rob McKenna and held since 2007 by Tim Ford.

In 2008, the position was a casualty of budget cuts and became part time. New Attorney General Bob Ferguson ought to preserve it and return it …

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