After complaint of 'political interference,' Atlanta mayor says she'll order citywide open records website

StateScoop: Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Botttoms wants the city to create a dedicated public website for municipal records, she wrote in a letter to the city council on Monday. The open records site would be part of her response to Atlanta's record as one of the least transparent major cities in the United States.

Bottoms' letter was first reported by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and WSB-TV, which last week filed a complaint with Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr that the city was violating the state's open records law. In the letter, Bottoms wrote that she plans to create citywide open records policies and protocols.

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