Lansing City Council to work on Freedom of Information Policy behind closed doors

You can read all about it here. I'm not sure what's funnier, the argument that the group working on transparency issues should not meet in public or be subject to the open Meetings Act, that the group is creating a "legal opinion" just because the lawyer is there, or that a public official will have trouble candidly expressing his or her views in an open meeting. If you can't candidly express your views on transparency in an open meeting, perhaps you should reconsider serving as a public official. So we are left to wonder whose idea it was to eliminate transparency in the process of reworking the policy on transparancy. I think I see where this may be going. Irony so thick, you slice through it with a knife.