Gov. Bill Lee

26 Apr, 2024

Quick take on open government wins, losses at 2024 legislature

By |2024-04-26T12:13:02-05:00April 26, 2024|Categories: Legislature|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |0 Comments

Lawmakers handed open government some wins and losses during the session that ended Thursday. Among the wins was a bill by state Rep. Susan Lynn to add muscle to the Sunshine Law by allowing recovery of attorney fees and reasonable costs when a citizen prevails in an open meetings lawsuit.

30 Dec, 2022

State should address secretive culture around lethal injection drugs

By |2023-01-02T16:31:45-06:00December 30, 2022|Categories: execution drugs|Tags: , , , , , |0 Comments

An independent investigation of the state's secret handling of lethal injection drugs shows it did not follow state protocols for testing the materials. The state should fix this and address the secrecy about lethal injection drugs going forward.

5 Jan, 2022

Nashville Post journalist files public records lawsuit over state’s McKinsey reports

By |2022-01-10T12:05:08-06:00January 5, 2022|Categories: deliberative process privilege, public records lawsuits Tennessee|Tags: , , , , , , |1 Comment

In the second public records lawsuit against Gov. Bill Lee's administration in a matter of weeks, Nashville Post journalist Stephen Elliott says that the administration's claim of a "deliberative process privilege" to keep secret a consultant's reports during the COVID-19 pandemic has no basis in state law.

18 Oct, 2021

New megasite authority could operate with secrecy under proposed bill

By |2021-10-19T07:15:10-05:00October 18, 2021|Categories: Tennessee Coalition for Open Government|Tags: , , , |1 Comment

The proposed bill that would create the Megasite Authority of West Tennessee with the power to approve a half-billion dollar grant to Ford Motor Co. offers another coveted power: megasecrecy.

17 Mar, 2021

The Tennessean outlines why state won’t release $1.59 million McKinsey report

By |2021-03-17T14:24:34-05:00March 17, 2021|Categories: deliberative process privilege|Tags: , , |0 Comments

A $1.59 million report by McKinsey & Co. on restructuring the state's workforce is confidential and won't be released to the public, a state agency has told The Tennessean. The Department of Human Resources told The Tennesseean in a story published March 9 that the taxpayer-funded report was confidential, citing the department's "deliberative process privilege." DHS has acknowledged to The Tennessean that it is planning employee buyouts. The state received the McKinsey report in September. This is not the first time the Gov. Bill Lee administration has asserted the deliberative process exemption to shield written reports. In 2019, the administration claimed they did not have to release written reports from [...]

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