This week's roundup is a long overdue collection of some notable deletions caught recently by our Politwoops project.
Continue reading30 groups protest secret deal that strips surveillance reform from the CROmnibus
A quiet deal would strip a key funding measure of meaningful surveillance reform.
Continue readingA voter’s dream? Adding political groups to the ‘Do Not Call’ registry
As one of his last official acts, a beneficiary of those pesky unsolicited political phone calls proposes giving voters the right to block them.
Continue readingBipartisan FOIA reform is on the ropes – and Sen. Rockefeller is throwing the punches
Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., is holding the FOIA Improvement Act in what amounts to a secret effort to kill the bill. But why?
Continue readingElection in the rearview, millions in the bank
The 2014 midterms were a bruising affair — racking up record costs for candidates and outside groups. Some incumbents, however, managed to weather their re-election contests while keeping millions in reserve.
Continue readingAdding transparency to the processes behind open data
Montgomery County, Md., provides an example of how the prioritization process for open data can be open in itself.
Continue readingHow do we improve open data for police accountability?
We grant law enforcement and corrections departments the right to exercise more physical power over US citizens than we do to any other part of our government. Do we have the data we need to evaluate how they use it?
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