Linda Lightfoot Quotations

When we were dealing with the paper world and you were allowed to see the file, you could view the ideas that went into policy development. E-mail is very easy to be lost, and it is a lot more difficult to follow.

One issue is convincing the public that there are entities out there other than the media that really need access to documents, such as people doing substantive research on government.

We have to be careful in shutting down public records.

Access to documents in our Legislature is really phenomenal. Louisiana is very, very advanced when compared to other state legislatures.