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and other matters in the office of
any officer”. are at all times
“other matters’? were not
defined the citation of the Civil
Code sections were usually
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record”. But, because this
expensive process, the average
citizen is left without any real
The issue of access to
government records reached a
peak in the public mind
following the Watergate
disclosures and subsequent
efforts to screen from the public
the conduct at the White House.
This prompted enactment by the
Congress of a new Freedom of
Information Act. It was vetoed
y President Ford.
~Speaking out against
‘‘Imperial
Unfortunately, too many officials at all levels of government seem. bent. upon
establishing an ‘Imperial
Government”, :
On that very point, Justice
Potter Stewart, § to the
Yale™Law School graduating
class, said of the constitutional
. guarantees for a free press,
institute friction, but, by
inevitable
“The purpose was, not to avoid
means of the
distribution of the go
powers among thr
autocracy.” aS :
_.California’s own Senator Alan
(Cranston. also challenged the.
veto and declared the President
“has not grasped the lessons of
Watergate-the dangers of
undue secrecy in government”. .
But it was Cranston’s
recitation of why records must.
be available to the public which Pu
should be inscribed in marble in
all public buildings. “The people 8°
must have access to the truth ifthey are to govern themselves
intelligently and prevent people
in power from abusing that
rr; ¥;
In the few years which have
gone by. since the enactment of
the records -act Californians
have witnessed numerous
éxamples ~~ of attempted
‘autocracy” in state government. The regents of the
University of California. have
acted secretly on occasions, the
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