New Englanders value openness in
government, yet are skeptical that public officials share that value.
They believe that having open access to the workings of government is
important to citizenship. Most favor toughening the laws that protect
access, and most agree that journalists are on the front lines in that
fight.
Moreover, nearly nine out of ten New
Englanders believe government agencies that wrongly withhold public
records should pay the legal bills necessary to open them.
Those were among the findings of a
recent poll of attitudes toward the First Amendment commissioned by The
New England First Amendment Coalition and conducted by the University
of New Hampshire’s Survey Center. Read more
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