If we don’t have full and fair public accounting by authorities for their responsibilities, fair decisions from them can’t be assured and citizen trust in them relentlessly crumbles. Without valid public trust in authorities, society doesn’t work properly.

The public accounting by authorities must be full, fair and prompt explanation before the fact of:

1. what they intend to bring about, for whom, and why they intend it,
2. their performance standards for themselves and those they oversee, and
3. what resulted from what they caused, authorized or controlled and how they applied the learning available to them.

But if citizens don’t effectively force it, we will get none of these needed explanations and we will be unable to sensibly assess the fairness of what authorities intend.