Not since Watergate, the national government corruption scandal, prompted Connecticut to pass its Freedom of Information Act in 1975 has the public’s right to know been in such jeopardy here.
Strangely, Governor Dannel Malloy is the biggest part of the threat, as he has been consolidating and weakening state government’s three "watchdog" agencies the freedom of information, elections, and ethics commissions and is seeking to put them under the direct control of his office even though the integrity of their work requires some independence from the governor and all political officials. And responding to the Manchester Journal Inquirer’s exposure of the chronic violation of the open-government law by the state Board of Pardons and Paroles, the Malloy administration has proposed exempting the board from the law entirely, as if the reasons for the release of criminals are nobody’s business even when parolees go on to murder people, as has happened twice lately.
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