Government transparency advocates prevail in slowing bill with public records fee – New Hampshire Bulletin

Under heavy lobbying from government transparency advocates, the House reversed itself Thursday and agreed to rethink a bill it passed last week that would allow communities to charge up to $25 an hour to fulfill requests for public records when doing so took more than 10 hours. 

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