The District of Columbia needs to balance privacy with transparency when releasing information on its voters.
Continue readingIRS opens up Form 990 data, ushering nonprofit sector into the age of transparency
Sunlight has long held that nonprofit e-file data should be open. Thanks to the IRS and many opengov advocates, now it is.
Continue readingCelebrating Freedom of Information Act reform in Congress, and the road ahead
Monday’s vote to send the FOIA Improvement Act of 2016 to the president's desk is the culmination of a decade of work from a coalition of advocates to reform the Freedom of Information Act.
Continue readingToday in OpenGov: House to vote on FOIA reform
WITNESSING HISTORY: The U.S House of Representatives will vote on S.337 (The FOIA Improvement Act of 2016) today under Suspension... View Article
Continue readingToday in OpenGov: Pay to sway
Trump’s political donations to state candidates top $800,000 in nearly 15 states QUID PRO WHAT? The presumptive presidential nominee of... View Article
Continue readingToday in OpenGov: Shutting down the internet is inimical to open government
If 1) public information should be online, 2) access to information is a right, and 3) an informed public is... View Article
Continue readingToday in OpenGov: The Declassification Engine is in gear
HISTORY AS DATA: You might recall reading about the “Declassification Engine” in Wired back in 2013. Well, a new Freedom... View Article
Continue readingToday in OpenGov: A call to civic action, copyright California, dark money and more
LOOKING FOR A FEW GOOD CIVIC HACKERS: In a video published to Code for America’s YouTube Account, Megan Smith, chief... View Article
Continue readingThe FBI shouldn’t restrict the public’s right to know about our data
The Sunlight Foundation joined 45 groups urging the Justice Department to give the public more comment time on its decision to exclude the Next Generation Identification program from Privacy Act rules.
Continue readingToday in OpenGov: Clinton’s email, more justice data, 404 at OGE, FOIA reforms and regressions
MORE EMAIL FALLOUT: The release of a critical report on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s email practices by U.S.... View Article
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