Whitmire: Different year, same old fight, but a new champion for open government
Updated Mar 17, 2021;
Posted Mar 15, 2021
Alabama ranks dead-last for public records access. State Sen. Arthur Orr has sponsored a bill to fix that. HVT
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This is an opinion column.
Alabama doesn’t work like other states on a lot of things, but especially when it comes to public records.
Last year, my colleague Amy Yurkanin had a question: How much was the University of Alabama at Birmingham paying a private company to recruit students from foreign countries?
Her question led to a public information request to the university. She would like to see the contract, she said.