On Thursday, the Daley administration made headlines by announcing that the City of Chicago plans to post all Freedom of Information Act requests to its website. The mayor sold the idea as a good government reform, telling the City Hall press corps that "if you want transparency in government, you have to have this."

Investigative journalists aren't convinced. As the Chicago News Cooperative's Dan Mihalopoulos wrote yesterday, when FOIA inquiries are made public, both journalistic rivals and administration officials will get to see what stories reporters are chasing. Plus, the city will not be required to publish their responses to the requests, keeping hidden the arbitrary justifications the city often offers reporters when it refuses to release internal information. During the "Reporter's Notebook" segment on Fox Chicago Sunday yesterday, Dane Placko offered some suggestions of additional measures the Daley administration could implement if it was serious about transparency. Watch it: