Review finds states rules often put the burden of enforcing open government on private citizens [Video]

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Dana Holladay-Hollifield has worked as a nurse in Alabama for years, but never was her pay as low as it was at Huntsville Hospital.

She wondered what executives at the not-for-profit facility made, so she filed a public records request to find out. The hospital is governed by a public board, she said, and therefore subject to the state’s open records law.