Post by chrisbrooks on Apr 25, 2012 8:08:03 GMT -5
The Ron Littlefield Administration is known for routinely failing to comply with Open Records Requests filed by citizen activists, but the obstruction to information does not end with at the grassroots. It turns out that Chattanooga City Council representatives are being denied the information they need to make informed decisions when casting votes that have direct affect on thousands of people.
All of this came out today when the normally soft spoken, but always razor sharp, District One Representative Deborah Scott unleashed nothing short of an inspired cry for open government during today's Chattanooga City Council Agenda Committee. Turns out she had been requesting information from the Mayor's office for over three years about our city's sewer system and multi-million dollar contracts with waste management companies. Her requests have been forwarded by city administrators up the chain to Ron Littlefield, ostensibly under direct order by him to do so, where they were met with silence and in at least one instance, by the Mayor hanging up the phone on her.
Read the full story and watch the video interview with Deborah Scott here:
chactivist.blogspot.com/2012/04/mayor-tells-council-stop-asking.html
All of this came out today when the normally soft spoken, but always razor sharp, District One Representative Deborah Scott unleashed nothing short of an inspired cry for open government during today's Chattanooga City Council Agenda Committee. Turns out she had been requesting information from the Mayor's office for over three years about our city's sewer system and multi-million dollar contracts with waste management companies. Her requests have been forwarded by city administrators up the chain to Ron Littlefield, ostensibly under direct order by him to do so, where they were met with silence and in at least one instance, by the Mayor hanging up the phone on her.
Read the full story and watch the video interview with Deborah Scott here:
chactivist.blogspot.com/2012/04/mayor-tells-council-stop-asking.html