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“The basic purpose of FOIA is to ensure an informed citizenry, vital to the functioning of a democratic society, needed to check against corruption and to hold the governors accountable to the governed.”

– United States Supreme Court in NLRB v. Robbins Tire Co., 437 U.S. 214, 242 (1978)

“Government ought to be all outside and no inside….Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.”

– Woodrow Wilson

“Secrecy is the freedom zealots dream of: no watchman to check the door, no accountant to check the books, no judge to check the law. The secret government has no constitution. The rules it follows are the rules it makes up.”

– Bill Moyers

“Examining public records should never require extraordinary legal or bureaucratic efforts. When it does, it’s usually a red flag.”

– Don Baldwin

“The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.”

– Patrick Henry

“Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.”

– Jeremy Bentham, 1768

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