[IronWolve]

IMHO,Making the public pay for records, at high expense in a digital age is how the government limit information. Police arrest\crime data, Court data, Zoning Data, Meeting transcripts, Budget Data, etc, and yes, Education data.

Society shouldnt accept this data should be behind paywalls or accept high costs to access it. Or paper only releases to stop release restrictions for costs and size.

[codyb]

Zoning data and meeting transcripts generally are public? At least in NY that's been my experience.

A lot of the rest I'd rather was private. Although it'd be nice to get aggregated data for certain crimes which currently are tracked at each individual department level and not in any sort of national manner.