BALTIMORE (WBFF) — Public records, in Maryland, are supposed to be available to the tax-paying public. Federal, and many state governments, have drafted laws protecting your rights to see those records. But a Project Baltimore investigation is raising questions over information the Maryland State Department of Education is not allowing the public to see.
Project Baltimore’s Chris Papst spoke with Scott Marder, a local attorney who’s very familiar with Maryland’s Public Records law.
“Chris, this is shocking,” Marder said. “I don’t think there should be redactions.”
Back in 2017, on behalf of Fox45, Marder sued Baltimore City Schools when the district refused to release documents related to grade-changing investigations. In 2019, a judge ruled in our favor in that case, saying the school system “willfully and knowingly” violated the law.
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“It is always important that the public know what government is doing,” said Marder. “When government hides information, then it makes it a lot harder for the voters to make intelligent decisions.”
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