Connecticut Freedom of Information Act

Open government at 50: Principle isn’t practice

By Chris Powell Connecticut’s Freedom of Information Act, enacted in 1975, turns 50 this year, the legacy of Gov. Ella T. Grasso, who vigorously advocated it, and the Watergate scandal of the previous two years, which proclaimed the danger of secret power. The FOI law made Connecticut a leader in accountability in government. The lawContinue reading “Open government at 50: Principle isn’t practice”