Official Secrecy And Racial Data II

About two weeks ago I posted a discussion of Official Secrecy And Racial Data in which I noted the (inconsistency/irony/hypocrisy — take your choice) of public agencies and their friends aggressively defending the necessity of collecting racial data in order to monitor discrimination, etc., and then refusing to release it.

Once again, the Center for Equal Opportunity has not only thought of this problem, but proposed a solution. It has distributed model sunshine legislation to all the state legislatures (and there is also a federal version).

And thus once again we owe a debt of gratitude and appreciation (or more, if you can) to CEO.

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  1. Chetly Zarko April 20, 2005 at 4:05 am | | Reply

    It’s good to see they finally got around to this. I’ve been recommending this since shortly after my piece in the WSJ in 03, but never had the time to get involved in pursuing it. (The Mich. Assoc. of Scholars and I recently obtained additional data forming the basis of Gurin’s expert testimony through FOIA litigation against U-M, so there’ll be more coming on that). It will be interesting to see if any legislatures have the courage to implement it.

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