In Georgia, Cumming Mayor Ford Gravitt removed citizen journalist Nydia Tisdale from a recent public meeting. Georgia Attorney General Sam... View Article
Continue readingSunlight Weekly Roundup: “Information is the currency of democracy”
The Salt Lake Tribune covered a University of Utah honors class project: developing a set of five guiding principles to help... View Article
Continue readingSunlight Weekly Roundup: New York Govenor Andrew Cuomo launches new website to increase transparency and emphasize citizen engagement
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has made good on his campaign promise to increase his own transparency by launching a... View Article
Continue readingFOIA Under Attack in Illinois
This week we continue our coverage of the rollbacks of Illinois’s Freedom of Information law with a guest post from Emily Miller.... View Article
Continue readingIllinois and the Case for Open Redistricting
Transparency is a cornerstone of democracy: If citizens can’t see the process, they can’t be expected to be informed participants... View Article
Continue readingGovernor Quinn approves bill to delay FOIA requests
The wait is over. On Friday last week, Governor Pat Quinn signed into law HB 1716, a bill that will... View Article
Continue readingWorking Together Towards Transparency in Local Government
We welcome Mark Cavers – our guest blogger. Mark serves as the Government Reform Policy Analyst for the Illinois Policy... View Article
Continue readingOne year waiting period for Illinois’ FOIA “recurrent requestors”
The fourth president of the United States, James Madison once wrote: A popular Government, without popular information, or the means... View Article
Continue readingStates of Transparency: Illinois
The Open Government Directive encouraged states to put valuable government data online. In this series we're reviewing each state's efforts in this direction.
This week: Illinois
Website: www.accountability.illinois.gov
In a state where good government groups have been working to increase transparency since the days of Al Capone, how is Illinois doing in bringing their transparency efforts into the 21st century? Quite well, say open government boosters like US Public Interest Research Group, who recently ranked the state third in their review of state websites designed to get crucial spending data online. Still, local transparency advocates ... Continue readingLocal Sunlight
Every week I climb into the depths of the local political blogosphere to find the Sunlight. I use this series... View Article
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