Information and Perspective by Warren Woodward
(December 20, 2015)
One year ago this month I made a Public Records Request of the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC). Upon reading the documents and emails I received from the ACC, it was clear that the ACC had redacted things that should not have been redacted, and that also the ACC had not given me all the documents and emails they should have. Particularly egregious was the ACC’s invention of a new reason for redaction called “state of mind.”
I gave the ACC another chance to do my Request over and get it right. They didn’t get it right.
I then went to the “Citizen Ombudsman,” an office set up by the Arizona Legislature that’s supposed to resolve disputes between citizens and state government agencies. That went nowhere even though three and one half months passed. Read More→
