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Classifying changes to public access to information on US government websites

Changes to Web content can be especially confusing and opaque to the public when agencies don’t proactively document and explain how and why they change their websites. By clearly laying out how agencies are managing Web resources and changing websites using this classification system, our goal is to inform the public and lawmakers, gain insight into better systems for digital resource management, and provide information that can help keep our government accountable.

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Today in OpenGov: Probing questions

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Do you like our coverage of open data at the city level? Well, Sunlight's Open Cities team is launching a brand new newsletter that might be right up your alley. Dedicated to understanding how to use open data to solve community problems, the newsletter will explore everything from the nuts and bolts of publishing data online to how to formalize open data procedures and how to put it all into use. The open cities team will be sharing the ideas and resources designed for small- and mid-sized cities interested in making open data a bigger part of their toolkit. Sound good? You can learn more and sign up for the newsletter, which we'll be sending out about twice a month, right here. Once you've done that, you can read on for your daily dose of open government news from Washington, DC, around the United States, and across the globe. 

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Today in OpenGov: Opportunities to engage

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Today, we're wrapping up a busy week with opportunities for civic engagement, the latest on Trump Cabinet officials and their love of charter flights, Facebook's 2011 fight against ad disclosure, campaign finance news out of Brazil and Mexico, and quick hits from across the open government world. 

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Today in OpenGov: The price is flight

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In today's edition, we urge Twitter to step up and disclose its political ad file, lament a decision that will make it more difficult to prosecute public corruption in the United States, take note of the White House's affirmed commitment to open data for economic outcomes and "operational transparency," and more.

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Today in OpenGov: But their emails.

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In today's edition, we continue to track the White House's use of personal email for public business, Buffalo, NY embraces open data, outside groups are increasingly outgunning candidates, and more. 

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