When 36 people died in the nation’s deadliest fire since 2003, Oakland’s mayor promised full transparency about the infamous Ghost Ship inferno. Instead, city officials ran roughshod over the state Public Records Act, delaying release of documents for weeks until we threatened to sue. When the Sacramento Bee sought records about former UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi, the university stalled. And as the state Department of Water Resources spends $275 million to repair the Oroville Dam, it has refused to release the recommendations of an independent board of consultants.