Comment by lq9AJ8yrfs
2 months ago
In the new language proposed in SB0226 (as linked, didnt search for authoritative sources, can't tell how durable that link will be for posterity, arrgh archiving the web is hard etc), doesn't that language leave open a hole for excessive complexity to be a reservoir for FOIA resistance?
Feels like there is an important theme here that SB0226 is dancing around --could government be legible in addition to being "plain-text" transparent?
"plain-text description" of "each field of each database of the public body" and "specific database queries" may not do what you mean.
Not sure how to fix it though.
I could see gratuitous ORMs and database-of-databases patterns winning tax dollars with taunt-them-with-the-schema listed as a feature.
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