“…portions of your request seek information; not documents that may be public records. Such requests do not fall within the Public Records Act of Louisiana…” http://www.tulane.edu/~telc/html/prr.htm
—Louisiana Department of education legal counsel Troy Anthony Humphrey, in response to requests for information and public records by LouisianaVoice. (he copied his response to an individual in the department’s “Public Information Office,” whose existence, in retrospect, seems a bit superfluous.
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Mr. Humphrey left tacit the implied clause “…so sue us”. Our government’s transparency has apparently developed an advancing cataract and the whole lens through which we view it will have to be replaced or we will be totally blind to everything.