Podcast Episode

The Quiet Rewrite

Signal & Noise··6 August 2026·30 min

About this episode

Across the country, state legislatures are amending decades-old public records laws — not by repealing them, but by quietly narrowing definitions, extending response windows, and carving out exemptions one bill at a time. Most of it never makes headlines. This episode traces the architecture of that erosion and asks who benefits when the machinery of accountability gets harder to operate. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.