Lawmakers messed up Oklahoma’s open records law, allowing bad actors to hide. It’s time to fix it.
Every so often lawmakers decide to monkey around with the state’s open records laws and make changes that adversely affect the public’s right to know.
So in honor of our nation’s Sunshine Week, this seems a fitting time to point out how one of the Legislature’s bright ideas to “improve” our Open Records Act has backfired spectacularly.
They’ve changed state law to state that at “the sole…