In Louisiana, Republican Gov. Jeff Landry has been making a concerted effort to curtail access to public records — access that, Landry claimed, has been “weaponized to stifle deliberative speech.” The Times-Picayune’s Andrea Gallo examines that effort in an article published on August 5. “A review of Landry’s first five months as governor shows that in nearly a quarter of all public-records requests his office fielded, his attorneys withheld records by citing deliberative process or executive privilege,” Gallo reports. “The documents they withheld for those reasons included records related to …