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Taxpayers in White Plains, N.Y. who wonder why public schools there keep demanding more money even as test scores decline probably would like to see those payroll records, too, right? Thanks to Freedom of Information (FOI) laws covering government at all levels in America, We the People have the right to see such government records, and journalists are our proxies. When bureaucrats tell reporters "no," they're telling We the People "no."

Ask a journalist about the Patriot Act, and the response may strike you as overly suspicious or even paranoid. But those who have submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to a federal agency know better.