We need to promote this in order to keep some amount of accountability of public officials in the new age of digital transparency. If only the government has the ability to record, we will fall into a new tyranny.
Or as the defenders of police surveillance cameras so often repeat, "There is no reason to fear being photographed if you are doing nothing wrong." Yet the police, of Boston and many other cities, will accept nothing of the sort when it is themselves who are the subjects of serveillance, ie. citizen surveillance!
The biggest reform we could make in DC would be to require that all government meetings involving Congress or the President be open and in the sunshine (national security matters excluded). That would be a great constitutional amendment. CSPAN cameras could record everything and there’d be no questions about what is going on behind closed doors.