Utah Works To Repeal Anti-Transparency Law 136
Foldarn writes "Recently on Slashdot, Utah's Governor was honored with the Blackhole Award. Governor Herbert has now released a statement and a meeting with a concrete date to repeal the opaque law from the books in an effort to stay in offi... err, restore confidence in the public. The law added time for lawmakers to respond to information requests, removed the number of items that can be requested, and increased the prices of those same items. It's currently scheduled to become law this summer."
Go figure (Score:5, Insightful)
A state run by religious conservatives is also highly authoritarian. Who would have thought?
Re:Let's hope they don't screw it up. (Score:4, Insightful)
I've thought for many years that legislative bodies should have some kind of electronic revision control system that requires changes to be authenticated wtih a legislator's digital signature. It's wouldn't be technically hard, and you'd know who put what feature into a bill. In this case we only know that the bill was put through with the connivance of the legislature's leading officers, but even so they'd be less ready to do that if the offensive language had their signature (or shall we say fingerprints?) on it.
Re:Let's hope they don't screw it up. (Score:4, Insightful)
If Utah wants to do that why not?
The whole illegal aliens thing is quite easy to solve anyway, incarcerate the person who is directly responsible for hiring any illegal and the CEO of the company. Also fine the company $25k per day per illegal worker. If no one was hiring them they would not be crossing the border.
Re:Let's hope they don't screw it up. (Score:1, Insightful)
Until 1875 people came to the United States and were allowed the vote straight off the boat, the Page Act of 1875 started to limit people based on race, but unfettered immigration mostly continued without limit.
In 1848 the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo extended U.S. citizenship to approximately 60,000 Mexican residents of the New Mexico Territory and 4,000 living in California. An additional 2500 odd California residents also become U.S. citizens.
No 3 to 5 year process, it was just done with the stroke of a pen.
My family history is American Indian (who weren't citizens until 1924 - another stroke of the pen), Polish Jew (they showed up in 1895), English (pre American Revolution family in Virginia) and Danish Jew (they showed up between 1896 and '98). None of them had to apply and go through all the legal nonsense we have today.
12 months should be the goal the US strives for.