Michigan law protects the privacy of the governor and lets him shield emails from the media and citizens.
Still, a Detroit Free Press editorial says Rick Snyder needs to make public the executive branch emails regarding the Flint crisis. Snyder has been vague and less than transparent as to what he knew about the crisis and when.
The editorial says:
But Snyder, whose administration is now embroiled in a scandal emanating from the foul-ups that led to water poisoning in Flint and the inexplicably slow response, owes all of us better than what the law calls for.
He owes us full transparency, and explication.
Which means he needs to waive his own FOIA privileges and release all the executive-branch emails about Flint. It’s the only way the truth — about the timeline, about the decision-making and who knew what — can ever come out. More important, it’s the only path to discovering how to avoid anything like this happening in the future.
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