Secrecy provisions in public contracts prohibited and invalidated

(1) No public contract or other public document shall contain a provision to the effect that the contract thereof shall be kept confidential. (2) Every secrecy provision in a public contract or other public document, whether such public document or other public document exists at the 31st day of December, 2008 or is executed in the future, which prohibits or restricts its disclosure to the public, shall be wholly void and of no effect, and the public contract or document in question shall be read and construed for all purposes as if such a secrecy provision did not exist. access.