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Knox County Commission still isn’t completely getting the whole open government thing…
Posted By katie allison granju
Randy Neal notes that the Commission web site still lacks any info on the current appointment process:
It’s great that they adopted a more open process and conducted a series of public forums for the replacement appointments (prompted by the “sunshine” lawsuit, I’m sure). But there’s no announcement of the date, time, or place of the special meeting that I can find on the Knox County website (apologies if I missed it and if someone can find it please let me know), there’s no listing of applicants or background information, no minutes or reports from the public forums, no explanation of the process, and no agenda for the meeting. They are leaving it all up to the media to communicate this to the public.
This is pretty lame given the concerns about more “open government” in Knox County. They shouldn’t expect the KNS and local media (or bloggers for that matter) to do their job for them in terms of outreach and communication, and the KNS shouldn’t have to take them to court to get them to do their job.
(Again, apologies if this information is somewhere on the Knox County or County Commission website. I just wasn’t able to find it.)
Feb 18th, 2008
