Republicans in the Minnesota Legislature have a complex relationship with the Data Practices Act, as shown by their actions over the last several weeks.
Being out of executive power, Republicans in the House and Senate take on the duty of checking the power of the current administration. But to carry out that function, elected Republicans have been using the state DPA to ask for information from agencies they suspect of acting illegally, or at least inefficiently.
But should the Legislature be subject to the same transparency tool? No, GOP leaders say.
View the complete August 8 article by Peter Callaghan on the MinnPost website here.