Editorial: What are Nevada lawmakers hiding?
Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the March 27, 2016, Reno Gazette-Journal.
In the final hours of last year’s Nevada Legislature, a bill was rushed through and passed unanimously making almost all communications by lawmakers secret.
This harms the public’s interest in understanding the actions of their representatives.
The state Senate and Assembly have the ability to temporarily change the policy themselves each session. They should do this if they believe in the government transparency so many of them trumpet — and they should make the change permanent.
This law only recently came to light when the Associated Press asked top elected officials in each state for emails using their public accounts in the first week of February and for their calendars showing whom they met with during that time.
