By all measures, the ability to see what the government is up to in the United States has plummeted to new depths since the beginning of the second Trump administration.
For National Sunshine Week in 2025, I wrote about secrecy creep, the adoption of federal secrecy protections implemented by state and local authorities. In Florida and throughout the United States, this threatens the public’s right to be informed about its government.
A year later, this creep toward secrecy has become an all-out slide.
