Murfreesboro Post: Sen. Jim Tracy – ‘I’m never gonna run that bill’
State Sen. Jim Tracy, R-Shelbyville The Murfreesboro Post caught up with state Sen Jim Tracy, R-Shelbyville, after the public hearings this week. Tracy, at the request of the Tennessee School Boards Association, sponsored their bill to allow new fees to be charged against citizens who want to see public records. Tracy told Murfreesboro Post reporter Sam Stockard that he wanted to put some teeth in the law to go after the "bad actors" on both sides -- government officials who were delaying or obstructing requests, and those who were requesting emails from entire school boards or county commissions. (Tracy told Tennessee Coalition for Open Government the same thing earlier this [...]