[ Thanks to Cyrus for this link.
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“Access to information is a basic human right that should be,
but is not currently, protected by law. At the moment, we have a
system that legally protects locking up information and punishes as
criminals those that create a means of access. This is backwards
and flies in the face of the founding principles of the United
States of America. We call our era the ‘information age’–why then,
is so much information walled off behind false barriers that only
serve to protect the interests of those that publish information
and deny access to so many of the world’s citizens? We tried this
experiment before, and we now call that time period ‘the dark
ages.’ Let’s not make that mistake a 2nd time–support Assembly
Bill 1668, which would guarantee citizens’ access to state
government documents…”