Utah Data Points, a website featuring analysis by political science professors at Utah universities, has a new post looking at how voters rank importance of certain factors in the open records debate.
Kelly Patterson, a political science professor at Brigham Young University, found voters rank access to government records far higher than "citizen's right to privacy when communicating with legislators." Only 2 percent thought legislators' own privacy was an important consideration. You can read the analysis here.
If you haven't seen it before, also check out the site's analysis of the speed (or lack thereof) in how HB477 was passed.
