Last year saw advances and setbacks for opening data about the ownership of corporations, but it's critical that the world continues to push for genuine transparency and access to company registers as open data in 2017.
Continue readingHow Data Refuge works, and how YOU can help save federal open data
Editor’s Note: Last week, Sunlight joined Abbie Grotke, a digital library project manager at the Library of Congress, and professor... View Article
Continue readingWhat we told Congress about oversight, ethics and open government
This week, the Sunlight Foundation joined a roundtable of nonprofits, Members of the U.S. House of Representatives, and their staff... View Article
Continue readingWhite House Office of Management and Budget missing from Trump WhiteHouse.gov
Continued progress in open government in the United States depends on having an administration with both the political will and the technical ability to not only be good stewards of platforms, processes and policies that make our government more accessible and accountable to the public. Judging by the new Whitehouse.gov to date, it’s unclear whether the Trump administration has either.
Continue readingHow federal agencies and Congress pass laws to deny individual FOIA requests
A judge can force a federal agency to comply with a Freedom of Information Act request. But, while the FOIA is pending, the agency can ask Congress to pass a law allowing it to withhold the requested information.
Continue readingThe White House should publish text of Presidential actions immediately online
The White House should publish text of all Presidential actions on WhiteHouse.gov immediately upon the President's signature. Anything less invites disaster by creating the potential for disinformation and misinterpretation of legally binding directives.
Continue readingAfter MuckRock FOIA lawsuit, CIA publishes declassified documents online
“The CIA is made up of American citizens just like you. The people that I work with, we believe that we hold these records in trust for the American people. When their sensitivity attenuates over time, we feel we have a responsibility so the American people can judge them for themselves. It’s important that we put these source documents online.”- Joseph Lambert
Continue readingSending the wrong message to investors: Donald Trump and the rule of law
"Trump signals that his interests take precedence over the public’s right to know or the interests of other investors, who will not have the same access he and his family have to make good market decisions." – Professor Susan Ariel Aaronson
Continue readingThe appearance of corruption will be ubiquitous in a Trump presidency
John Wonderlich, Sunlight’s executive director, went on Democracy Now yesterday to discuss President-elect Donald Trump’s decision to ignore ethics experts... View Article
Continue readingHouse Oversight should do oversight, not threaten the Office of Government Ethics
This week, Rep. Jason Chaffetz, Chairman of the U.S. House Oversight Committee, sent the Director of Office of Government Ethics... View Article
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