Megan Rhyne is executive director of the Virginia Coalition for Open Government, a nonprofit group that seeks to promote expanded access to government records and meetings at the state and local level. How do open records laws serve the general public?

If you want to know about restaurant health inspections [or] the sex offender registry … [it] is about collecting all that data in one place. Land records and assessments — that kind of everyday use — that’s something that anyone can be interested in.

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