We operate off the law and the premise that all documents we have here are public documents, whether on public computers, on public file, generated by public employees.

We were going to retire to Louisiana, but my brother died and then my sister-in-law died, and we lost interest. We owned land here so about four years ago we decided to build a building.

There is no area of the law that doesn't get expanded and deepened once you step out of the U.S.. It's great for the legal community.

All it does is put us in a position to take 10 years to build projects that should have been built 10 years ago.

The important thing is with police manpower - if it can give them a different set of eyes, if it can make them aware of a sensitive situation as it happens, if it allows them to prevent something from happening, it makes downtown a safer and more secure environment.

That openness comes with a cost. If you could have gotten the property at $100,000 less, you would have saved taxpayers $100,000. The cure would be the public would not have a right to know, and that's wrong.