Terence Keel
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Terence Keel
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Professor • Author • Director of the BioCritical Studies Lab
This is a vital part of any thriving democracy, and transparency in state records and investigation files is one way to ensure that the people are protected against the overreach of the state.
September 17, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Transparency and disclosure is one way to restore that faith, but it's also another way to ensure that the people are protected from the abuses, potential overreach, and mistakes of local government and elected officials.
September 17, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Transparency and disclosure are vital for restoring faith in democracy, especially in a moment when Americans right now are very unsure about the state of our democracy and faith in our democratic institutions are at their lowest in decades.
September 17, 2025 at 9:13 PM
We want to make sure that law enforcement and local government are doing right by people who lose their lives under circumstances that are not clear.
September 17, 2025 at 9:13 PM
But they should. And the reason is that in a democracy we want to be able to allow the people to make sure that local officials are doing their due diligence and doing right by people who die under mysterious and untimely circumstances.
September 17, 2025 at 9:13 PM
What this essentially means is that local residents—people in the state of Mississippi and the nation as a whole—really won't be able to see the official records by the death investigator or the medical examiner.
September 17, 2025 at 9:12 PM