The U.S. Constitution exists to protect the minority from abuses by the majority. Your ideas, opinion or additions are much needed. This is an open site. Closed records therefore compromise or violate the first amendment right to petition.
Free speech protects both the speaker and the listener.
We are rewarded by the right to know what others have to say. That is the foundation of free democracy. The freedom of the press is intended to protect both the speaker and listener. Yet 200 years ago suppressed documents were not as great a problem as today. With personal information right to speak is no different than the right to know because to contemplate is to speak of it within ones own being.