Issue Position: Government Accountability

Issue Position

Government Accountability

A. Restrict the use of the emergency clause to genuine emergencies, and adopt
constitutional limitations on its use

B. Open-Government Reforms

i. Create a Public Records Ombudsman authorized to enforce the Public Records
Act.

ii. Clarify the use of the attorney client-privilege exemption.

iii. Create criminal penalties for willful violation of the Public Records Act.

iv. Require audio taping of executive sessions.

v. The legislature should make itself subject to the Public Records Act and Open
Public Meetings Act.

vi. Adopt a constitutional amendment placing the preamble of the Public Records
Act in the the constitution, and require a 60 percent vote of lawmakers to enact a new exemption from disclosure to take effect.

C Adopt constitutional reform that requires a two-thirds vote of the legislature to amend a voter-approved initiative.

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