In 1974, state officials approached a young lawyer in the Department of Social Services and asked if he would be interested in working for the newly created Committee on Public Access to Records to implement the just enacted Freedom of Information Law.
Robert J. Freeman was apprehensive and told the governor’s representative he didn’t know anything about the new law. “That’s okay, nobody else does either,” Freeman recalls the official responding.
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