By Andrea Zelinski | TNReport
Gov. Bill Haslam
NASHVILLE — Republican Gov. Bill Haslam isn’t too keen on letting Tennesseans in on who he’s meeting behind closed doors.
“There’s just a lot of discussions that we have, that any governor needs to have, as part of the decision-making process that we go through on so many different issues,” the governor said recently.
The administration rejected a request from TNReport in July to review or obtain copies of the governor’s calendar-scheduling planner dating back to his Jan. 15, 2010, inauguration through June 30, 2012.
Haslam’s office said his schedule falls under the protection of “deliberative process privilege.” The exception under common law allows for government secrecy in instances of communications, opinions and recommendations on policy issues.
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