Comment by tptacek

No. I'm involved in local government, and on the citizens commission where we keep track of our our municipality (adjacent to Chicago) stores and manages information. I'm acutely familiar with how people are spending their time in these organizations, and what is and isn't a big lift for them.

Increasingly, year over year, more and more information that would previously have been stored in filing cabinets or shared drives is moving into turnkey applications that municipalities buy and enroll all their data in. Those applications are opaque. But almost all of them are front-ends to SQL databases.

Being able to recover schemas from publicly operated databases is vital to keeping public records and data public, rather than de-facto hidden from inquiry.

Matt's suit was anything but a waste of people's time. Hopefully, it'll result in a change to our state law.