Other view: Open government means open access — from Minn. to Texas | Duluth News Tribune | Duluth, Minnesota

"As a reporter in Texas for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Dallas Morning News and Fort Worth Weekly, Dan Malone sharpened his skills at examining government actions using the Texas Public Information Act, one of the strongest laws in the country for enforcing accountability of public servants. He and a Morning News colleague won a Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for investigating law enforcement civil rights abuses, a project that involved hundreds of open records requests. Now, as a journalism instructor at Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas, he’s teaching students how to get public information. And school officials say it could be a firing offense...."