January 16, 2019
In this episode of Dialectic, we talk with Professor Claudia Polsky from UC Berkeley Law School about her recently published article in the UCLA Law Review, Open Records, Shuttered Labs: Ending Political Harassment of Public University Researchers. Prof. Polsky describes the rise of politically motivated groups using state open records laws to target and harass researchers at public universities with opposing ideologies. These groups use open records laws to retrieve countless documents related to a researcher's work, creating an enormous administrative burden. Further, she argues the misuse of open records laws impacts the quality of academic research and the freedom that researchers have to investigate society's most controversial and challenging issues. Prof. Polsky concludes by discussing her detailed legislative proposal to combat the abuse of open records laws and protect university researchers from political harassment while still maintaining the integrity and spirit of open records laws.
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Produced by Jason Lawler
Dialectic: Reforming Open Records Laws to End Political Harassment of Public University Researchers, [small-caps]UCLA L. Rev.[end-small-caps] (Jan. 16, 2019), https://www.uclalawreview.org/episode-4-2-reforming-open-records-laws-to-end-political-harassment-of-public-university-researchers.
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