State Freedom of Information laws are in the limelight again. This time from Minnesota. The state’s proposed revision’s on FOIA... View Article
Continue readingSunlight Weekly Roundup: lack of advanced notice of meeting “an insult to taxpayers”
Americans for Prosperity-Nebraska, a free-market advocacy group, has filed a complaint with the state attorney general against the Lincoln-Lancaster County... View Article
Continue readingCityCamp Honolulu: Advancing open government in Hawaii
Joining us today as our guest blogger is Jason Hibbets. Jason is the project manager at Red Hat and lead... View Article
Continue reading“Global Open Gov: What’s The Secret Sauce?” (Part 3)
This is the third and last part of Matt’s post on the Open Government Partnership National governments seeking to become... View Article
Continue reading“Global Open Gov: What’s The Secret Sauce?” (Part 2)
In this second in a three-part series, guest blogger Matt Rosenberg continues to reflect on the Open Government Partnership Egypt,... View Article
Continue reading“Global Open Gov: What’s The Secret Sauce?”
Today’s guest blog is a three-part series from Matt Rosenberg. Matt is founder and editor of Public Data Ferret, a... View Article
Continue readingSunlight Weekly Roundup: Open meeting law violations and broken campaign promises regarding transparency
According to Galloway Township News, New Jersey’s Galloway Township has failed to release an agenda for the townships meeting their... View Article
Continue readingHave you used Opengovernment.org? Tell us what you think
A while back, we wrote about the different ways in which Opengovernment.org helps bloggers and activists alike to track legislative data... View Article
Continue readingSunlight Weekly Roundup: “anytime you have an entity that receives state dollars, there should be transparency”
Following the Penn State child sexual abuse scandal, lawmakers want to strip state-related institutions’ exemption from Pennsylvania’s right-to-know law. State... View Article
Continue readingSunlight Weekly Roundup: “…budget issues and open government go hand in hand”
Despite the state’s spotty history with transparency, The Sunshine Review has just increased the Kansas state website’s grade from a... View Article
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