Mayor Steve Fulop's great transparency government is a little rough around the edges.

In yet another tip top article by the Jersey Journal's Terrence T. McDonald, Mayor Steve Fulop's datebook was full of redactions when requested by the media. Fulop's spokespeople say it's to protect private citizens but it that fully true? Some redactions shouldn't have been and yet other redactions have met with redactions. The group Civic JC, a group that worked with then Councilman Fulop on the city's first pay to play legislation feels the mayor's excuses are just that:

Aaron Morrill, an attorney, argues that Jersey City is within its rights to redact meetings that helped shape public policy, but not meetings with, say, private citizens seeking to do business with Jersey City.

“Jersey City residents should have some idea of what their mayor does during the day, what issues he is working on and who he is meeting with,” Morrill said. “We expected more transparency from the mayor.”

Disappointing on many levels for someone who went out of his way to ride former mayor Healy over open government and trumpet how important a transparent government would be under his stewardship. What we're hearing from the mayor's office is he will continue doing just enough to meet the minimum requirements.

That should be as clear and transparent as mud.