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What we're really paying for Christie's fanatical secrecy
By Star-Ledger Editorial Board
The Christie administration's attempts to keep public records out of our view has cost taxpayers more than $900,000, according to a recent report in The Record.
About half of that is just over the last two years. This amount counts only the cases they lost, after wrongly denying the public release of public records.
And it doesn't include legal costs for government lawyers - only the costs of reimbursing the plaintiff's lawyers' fees.
So much for that "new era of accountability and transparency" that Gov. Christie promised at his 2010 inauguration. Just last year, his administration was awash in nearly two dozen public records lawsuits from watchdogs and news organizations.
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