Exemptions generous when it comes to economic development records
A few months ago, we reported here in a post about public records that the governor's office had denied state Rep. Mike Turner, D-Nashville, access to economic development records, citing two laws as the basis for protecting the information from public disclosure. Last night, those documents, leaked to NewsChannel 5's Phil Williams, became the basis of a story about the Haslam administration's effort to tie incentives to the outcome of work council discussions with Volkswagen over its plant in Chattanooga. The state's offer of about $300 million in incentives "subject to works council discussions between the State of Tennessee and VW being concluded to the satisfaction of the State of Tennessee" [...]