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Citizenship Awareness Act

Summary: This act enables the citizenship to request access to articles of any governmental agency in Sanctuary, such as but not limited to the Spellguard and Seekers and the Town Hall. This act is meant to reduce corruption by revealing documents from these said agencies, allow the citizenship to point out areas for improvement in the past and present and give the citizenship an insight into the operation of our agencies.

To protect sensitive articles, all articles will be examined over a three-day period by the Council. If a minimum of three councilors believe that the article should not be released, then the article will be withheld. By having the Council judge this, there will thus be no bias from any organization such as the Watch and Spellguard as to the release of their articles.

Requesting Rules:

- The request must be regarded to a specific topic. (Ex. "Criminal Record of Ivandur Reynolt", "Trial Records of Bug", Misconduct of Specific Tigereye Members, Discussion Logs of Anti-Magic Laws, etc.) - Councilors who are confronted to inquire on a topic must be responsible for judging whether a topic is too broad or not. Should councilors disagree, a majority vote takes place. - There must have already been an attempt to retrieve the document without the use of this act. This is to save the time of the council.

Process:

1: The citizenship requests an article or articles related to a specific topic through one of the five councilors. 2: The councilor requests this article from the needed agencies. If any articles are found, they are presented before the council to be judged for their three-day period. 3: Over the following three days, the council may discuss the contents of the article and it's release. If three councilors vote against the release of the said article, then the article is withheld. 4: If there is no or not enough votes against releasing the article, a copy of the article will be sent to the citizen or group of citizens who requested it.

This was denied under the reign of someone who wanted more power for himself. Now that we have returned to the normal council system, I see no reason not to re-enable this clause, so that citizens may pursue knowledge that has been denied to them. I have updated it with the proper terminology.

I vote aye.

Andrew Deepingdale

What are the Order's thoughts on this? Against, for, indifferent?

Councillor Jacelyn Cheval

Against.

My job keeps me busy enough (as you well know, you've seen the lines of people I deal with when I have a free moment at the tower even) as it is. If this sort of clause is included, it would do nothing but give ammunition to our critics, and would likely never silence them, no matter how many facts I dig up to justify any and all actions we have taken.

In short, this will only waste Spellguard time, and prevent us from doing our job efficiently and effectively in Sanctuary.

Agent Riesse Opalshore.