Government Transparency And Public Records


Posted December 17, 2018 by queenscounty

Any state in the US for that matter, follows a policy of right to information. When we talk about government transparency, it is perceived as a good deed that is necessary for a robust democracy.

 
Any state in the US for that matter, follows a policy of right to information. When we talk about government transparency, it is perceived as a good deed that is necessary for a robust democracy. Consistent with this thought, each state in the US has adopted the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to allow some oversight as well as accountability of the government activities. These policies have been enacted for the public as a whole but the prime users are intended to be the journalists who are able to disseminate crisp and terse information to the end user. At the same time, it has been realised that these FOIA and public records are used for commercial purposes rather than public.

There have been many researches that shows that a lot private agencies have stepped in and they are taking the charge to provide the public records to the citizens thereby commercialising the whole process. This is also distorting the entire model of the public records whose aim is just to provide the transparency of records to the citizens. Many of the corporations, in pursuit of their own profit, have overrun the FOIA’s inexpensive processes and crowded out the journalists and the other government agencies from doing what the law was intended to provide.

However, completely limiting the commercial request will not work. There is a need of certain stern measures that can actually control the commercialisation of such records. There is a need of a strong system where in the naïve citizens can access to the information at a reasonable cost. In lieu with this thought, staterecords.org has been developed to provide all sorts of public and vital records which are collected and presented in an organised manner to allow easy and convenient access to the citizens.
The information is accessible online. Reach out to staterecords.org if you are looking for Queens county public records.

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Issued By queens county public records
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Last Updated December 17, 2018