Articles written by New Mexico Foundation For Open Government

New Mexico Foundation for Open Government, Syndicated content|Mar 22, 2023

Public officials and employees love transparency in the abstract. In reality: not so much. Transparency in government is a crowd-pleasing election promise that gets set aside in practice. It happens in part because openness takes effort. It takes a daily commitment by public entities to provide access to records, to inform the public as to what is going on, and to allow participation. Transparency also invites scrutiny, and not all public officials and employees want that. Open government also suffers because public officials often choose to...