Tom Precious is reporting for The Buffalo News Robert Freeman, the head of the state's Committee for Open Government was fired June 24, for engaging in a sexually inappropriate way with a female reporter for the Journal News/lohud [dot] com, a downstate news outlet owned by Gannett. The reporter had asked for a meeting with Freeman to discuss the state's public officers law. Following the incident, on June 13, the woman filed a complaint with the state Inspector General's Office, alleging Freeman made "unwanted physical contact" with her. Sexually explicit photographs were also found on Freeman’s work computer along with sexually suggestive emails with a woman the IG said he may have met last year at Syracuse University. Freeman was fired after being interviewed by investigators and a subsequent finding by the IG of "compelling evidence" he acted inappropriately. Freeman, 72, has worked for decades promoting and protecting the state’s Freedom of Information Law and the public's right to get access to documents that agencies did not always want to provide. Over Republican and Democratic administrations, he angered agency heads and governors by siding with media outlets and the public in an effort to make the state more transparent, especially when it came to releasing documents under the Freedom of Information Law and the state’s open meetings laws. Read the full story at BuffaloNews [dot] com.