Earlier we wrote about how Maine was moving towards listening to calls for transparency. Now, we are happy that other... View Article
Continue readingBringing More Sunshine to Golden State
As Sunlight has covered before, California is one of the many states that is in dire need of transparency. A... View Article
Continue readingIntroducing: The Sunlight Blogger Round-up
Welcome to the Sunlight Blogger Round-up. Each week, we will be giving you a look at what is happening in... View Article
Continue readingConnecticut’s Public Records Challenge (Update)
A little while ago I posted about Connecticut towns who took their Web sites down because they couldn’t comply with... View Article
Continue readingLegislative Transparency Proposed in Tennessee
Bill Hobbs reports that a pair of lawmakers in the Tennessee legislature (one in the Senate, one in the House) have introduced a bill to make subcommittees, committees, and the two houses of the legislature itself subject to the state's version of the Freedom of Information Act, known as the Open Records Act. Hobbs notes that you can track the progress of the legislation here. So which member of the House, and which member of the Senate, will introduce similar legislation at the federal level? Congress, of course, is currently exempt from the Freedom of Information Act.
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