If it's a public record why do I have to ask for it? Open government is the super buzz word these days and it means so many different things.
On one hand we want to know what is really going on down there in area 57 and on the other no one cares about the email reminding that the frig needs cleaning on the 13th floor. So how do we get a grip on what the public wants? Certain things are going to need to be classified do to process, for example when we are litigating a case or doing an investigation information made publicly available about the specifics may cause a criminal to walk free and that is not in the public's interest. So what about all this other stuff like the thousands of emails in my archive or the presentation sides from the last event.
Snippit. OpenSocial - Google Code.