A Senate panel Wednesday postponed action on Jindal administration-backed legislation after opponents argued it would make more government records off limits to the public.
The legislation would affect the law that exempts records in the “custody or control of the governor in the usual course of the duties and business of his office” from the public records law.
Gov. Bobby Jindal’s executive counsel, Jimmy Faircloth, promoted Senate Bill 629 as a way to guarantee more openness.
