Yes!Weekly's push-back back against City secrecy

GREENSBORO, NC -- As the City of Greensboro sets down new policies for access to public records, including a good going over by the police of records requests and police sign-off before documents are released, a Yes! Weekly editorial tells a cautionary tale of the time a city tried to keep documents from the view of Yes! sister publication, The Outer Banks Sentinel. The city lost.

"It applies in the here and now as Greensboro officials attempt to revamp the city’s process for public-information requests. Let it serve as a warning to the crafters of the new policy that the law is on the side of the people when it comes to public records, that denying them can be costly and embarrassing, and that newspaper like ours are relentless in our pursuit of the truth."

— Yes! Weekly