Connecticut's devised a solid plan to share criminal justice data between state agencies — one that could help save the state money and hopefully prevent tragedies like the Cheshire murders.
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: Bringing transparency to earmarks buried in the budget
Researchers at the University of Chicago spent the summer training computers to extract all the earmarks from the hundreds of pages of mind-numbing legalese found in each budget.
Continue readingSharing sensitive data within government
When interagency data-sharing relationships are established, governments can produce highly useful analyses while upholding commitments to privacy.
Continue readingWhat can local data inventories tell us about the U.S. data index release?
While the U.S. finally made a commitment to release a full inventory of agency-held data sets, we've also been tracking the progress of local governments toward achieving similar goals — and several have been leading the way.
Continue readingHas the U.S. taken the lead in open data practices globally?
The U.S. release of federal data indexes is monumental, in part due to its unique nature. In fact, it may mark one of the first releases of this kind on the national level.
Continue readingWhy do we trust researchers with sensitive data?
Developing a sense of trustworthiness improves the likelihood that researchers and data-holding partners will be able to develop good ways to work together.
Continue readingA big win for open government: Sunlight gets U.S. to release indexes of federal data
For the first time, the United States government has agreed to release what we believe to be the largest index of government data in the world.
Continue readingWhen can we legally share protected data?
As Sunlight explores the public use of microdata, we are also exploring the practical, legal and ethical challenges of working with individual-level data.
Continue reading47 groups rally around FOIA reform as bill moves to Senate floor
It's time for FOIA reform. The Sunlight Foundation is joined by 46 other public interest groups in making that call and celebrating the movement that's already happened.
Continue reading4 out of 5 senators are slow-walking disclosure — are yours among them?
Last weekend marked the deadline for all 100 U.S. senators to disclose their recent donors in year-end campaign reports. And despite the fact that each of them could have easily uploaded those reports online, most didn’t.
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