The government push-back to transparency is as old as authority – Bureaucracy. It’s buried in transcripts, broken into sections, indexed esoterically, in part everywhere; and in whole nowhere — it’s a FOIL request for each document – a Black Box policy process where only the results are viewable.
When I enquired at the Town office about the status of our hamlet’s petition to the NY State for a speed limit – I was told it would take six months to a year; and we would only know if they put up signs.
It’s government by the book; by Kafka.