The board of directors of the Sunlight Foundation has reached some important conclusions about our future. We want to share... View Article
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A FIRST: As we noted in our audit last Friday, half of cabinet agencies had not uploaded a 2016 open... View Article
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: Why every government employee needs a sabbatical
Government employees should take mini-retirements, enabling them to grow personally and professionally before returning to the public sector.
Continue readingHalf of U.S. Cabinet agencies fail to comply with Open Government Directive
President Obama’s Open Government Directive needs to wrangle agencies lagging behind. (Photo credit: Office of U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow/Flickr) 2,473... View Article
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: Nashville’s police data reveals racial burden
The Nashville police department is using data to direct their police presence, but without nuance, their policing could actually be hurting communities in need of the most help.
Continue readingToday in OpenGov: Open data and rape reports, new political ad site, White House OMB releases open gov plan
AD ON: Libby Watson wrote about the new and improved Political TV Ad Archive website, which enables public citizens to... View Article
Continue readingToday in OpenGov: Why we need you and your ideas at TransparencyCamp
ENTANGLED: A new feature by Kurt Eichenwald reported the myriad of personal and financial interests that the Trump Company holds... View Article
Continue readingHow is your city responding to rape reports?
FBI data, though incomplete, can tell us about how police departments follow up on reports of rape.
Continue readingPolitical TV Ad Archive gets a makeover to help track who is behind shadowy TV ads
With tens of millions of dollars funding a bombardment of political advertisements, the revamped Political TV Ad Archive houses them all.
Continue readingAttention campers: Your opengov ideas are needed for TCamp16!
What sorts of ideas and issues will be discussed, analyzed and debated at TransparencyCamp this year? You decide!
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