AB3 and the Shrinking Window of Government Transparency in Nevada

Well, mark your calendars — Picon just agreed with the Nevada Press Association. We know. We’re shocked too.

Apparently, the Nevada Legislature has enrolled itself in a crash course titled “How to Lose an Election in 3 Easy Bills,” and Assembly Bill 3 is the final exam. Nothing says “we care about transparency” quite like tightening privacy laws right as public records wait times are already long enough to qualify for archaeological status.

Because if there’s one thing Nevadans desperately needed, it was even fewer ways to find out what their government is up to.

Press groups hate it. Open-government advocates hate it. Anyone who has ever filed a public records request and aged five years waiting for it? They definitely hate it.

But sure — let’s call this progress.