Tighten access to public records?

The Haines Borough Assembly last week introduced an ordinance that would restrict public access to employee evaluations and applications for borough jobs.

  Borough attorney Brooks Chandler drafted an ordinance at the request of manager Mark Earnest that would make performance evaluations and job applications of many borough employees confidential and inaccessible to the public.

The Chilkat Valley News in recent months has challenged the legality of confidentiality clauses in borough employee contracts and pressed…