• Good-government credo: sunshine is the best disinfectant. The State Journal-Register, one of Springfield’s morning “must-reads,” runs an op-ed written by the BGA’s Policy and Government Relations coordinator, Emily Miller, urging lawmakers to vote no on HB 5154 so we can maintain access to the job performance records of most public employees. Illinois’ new and mostly improved Freedom of Information Act has already been diluted with measures exempting the job performance reviews of school and law enforcement employes from FOIA requests.That’s more than enough secrecy.