Fellow Wyomingites,
We had a small victory in the WY House today as a pro-transparency amendment was added to SF57! The amendment would allow citizens to be awarded attorney fees in the event that you have to sue a government entity for public records if the entity refused to comply with public records law following an appeals process. 41 other states have similar attorney fee provisions in their public records laws.
However, now the plethora of taxpayer-funded government lobbyists (municipalities, special districts, etc.) are trying to kill this amendment on second reading tomorrow because they do not want to be held accountable if they fail to comply with the law.
YOUR REPRESENTATIVES NEED TO HEAR FROM YOU! Please write and ask them to support Senate File 57 AS AMENDED and to oppose the Lindholm 2nd reading amendment. Their emails can be found at https://wyoleg.gov/Legislators/2019/H
It is time to have real #Transparency in the state of Wyoming.
#TransparencyRevolution #Accountability #OpenTheBooks
Thanks,
Parker Jackson
Lyman, WY