Public Records Transparency
Summary
New Albany officials now face $50-a-day fines if they sit on public records requests, giving people who’ve been waiting some real leverage. If you’ve filed a request and gotten silence, this is the enforcement tool that was missing.
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The city could rack up $50-a-day penalties—and if those come out of public funds, taxpayers end up paying for the stonewalling.
Anyone who files public records requests—residents, journalists, watchdogs—gets a stronger way to force answers.
Taxpayers could be on the hook if the city pays the fines, and officials who stall records now face real financial consequences.
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