Maryland Legislation Would Exempt Research From Open-Records Laws

February 3, 2012, 2:08 pm

Maryland’s General Assembly is considering legislation to exempt research at public universities from the state’s open-records laws, according to the Capital News Service. The University of Maryland supports the measure as a way to protect possible campus patents or copyrights, reports the news service. But news organizations have opposed the bill as a restriction on the public’s right to information.

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The public has never had an unfettered right to information, nor have journalists. Research is not the sort of “conduct of government” information that should be transparent.