$55 per hour for transparency
by Amy Oliver | 5:57 am, August 19, 2009 | 1 Comment
Transparency shouldn’t cost this much. Taxpayers shouldn’t have to pay anything to see how their money is being spent.
Independence Institute investigative reporter and CompleteColorado.com editor Todd Shepherd discusses how one government entity wants to charge him $55 per hour to fulfill his Colorado Open Records Act (CORA) request.
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Colorado, Transparency
Tags: Colorado Spending Transparency > Complete Colorado > Syndicated > Todd Shepherd
Tags: Colorado Spending Transparency > Complete Colorado > Syndicated > Todd Shepherd
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August 19th, 2009 @ 3:54 pm
Thanks Amy for the blog-post. Westword did a follow-up which was extremely comprehensive…
http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2009/08/independence_institute_cries_f.php