Journalists (at the Arizona Daily Star) looking into the state of Pima County's emergency-response plans were met with obfuscation, delays, excuses and deceit.
"None of the five Local Emergency Planning Committee offices contacted in Arizona provided the complete plans. Some offices refused to give any information at all." [Plans not shared with public --County officials won't give info law says is yours by Monica Alonzo-Dunsmoor and Corinne Purtill]
A related article shows the length to which our ever increasing secret-minded government will go to to keep information out of the hands of the public:
"Often, privacy laws are taken to the extreme. In 2002 the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., refused to release medical records about Ryma the giraffe, claiming that the disclosure of such information would violate the animal's right to privacy, as well as veterinarian-patient confidentiality." [Accessing records --Freedom of information, feted this week, increasingly restricted, Opinion by David Cuillier]
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