The state open meetings law - and every state has one - is a great way to ensnare liberals in controversy. With the open meetings law, you can sue your local liberal politician. Make him pay your legal expenses. Start recalls to throw him out of office. And throw him in jail for multiple violations of the open meetings law.
And believe me, liberal politcians are always meeting in secret in violation of open meetings laws.
I’m always amazed to hear about government officials ignoring these requests.
I work in a State government office and one of my duties is to handle all Public Records Act requests that come to us (we’re in California).
We get quite a few of them because we deal with issues that often end up in lawsuits being filed (not against us but against the federal agencies we’re monitoring), and we would never dream of ignoring those requests.
Instead, we basically drop everything to get the response out as quickly as possible (and we spend a good amount of time ensuring that our response is thorough and we haven’t missed a thing being requested).
Then again, we don’t have anything to hide...