It is not “un-transparent” to withhold gory photographs of a dead person from people who have no legal role in the necessary legal judgements about the means and manner of death.
All persons who have any need to see those photos in carrying out their official duties have already seen them.
What uninvolved people want them for is an extrajudicial inquiry conducted in public to “arrive at the truth”. It’s my position that members of the public have a right to suspicion, a right to judge their elected officials by their actions, and a right to dismiss those officials through voting - but that they don’t have the right to information made confidential by statute (Grand Jury testimony, for example) so they can act as if they themselves were the officials charged by law to investigate.
OK. Thanks so much for the response. I better understand your reasoning.