Posted By Steve Neavling on Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 11:02 AM click to enlarge Shutterstock.com Supporters of government transparency are planning to launch a ballot drive in 2022 to make Michigan’s governor and lawmakers subject to the Freedom of Information Act. Michigan is one of only two states that don’t require the governor’s office or Legislature to respond to public records requests. Progress Michigan, a liberal advocacy group that has been pushing for FOIA reform for nearly a decade, announced Monday that it’s launching the ballot initiative. “Every year it’s the same story: bills with good intentions that don’t go quite far enough and include ludicrous carve outs for the legislature in an effort to bribe Republicans to support them, slowly die on the vin