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SEATTLE (AP) - Newspapers need to find more allies in their fight to get access to public records, since government agencies keep coming up with more ways to keep them secret, a panel of news executives said Thursday.
Decisions to classify government documents rose to roughly 15 million in 2004, the most recent year available, up from about 8 million in 2001, said Andrew Alexander, Cox Newspapers' bureau chief in Washington, D.C., and chairman of the American Society of Newspaper Editors' Freedom of Information Committee.
At the same time, the government has been denying a growing number of public records requests.
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