NTSB’S Role in the Freedom of Information
Tomorrow, many of us will gather to celebrate Independence Day, the first step our nation took to becoming a democracy. In signing the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) on July 4, 1966, President Lyndon Johnson said, “This legislation springs f ...
Minimal Transparency in Mayor’s FOIL Tracker Compared to Federal Website
The web page set up by Mayor Bill de Blasio’s office to track freedom of information document requests pales in comparison to the government transparency standards currently in place at the federal level. The mayor’s office introduced i ...
Hutchinson: Open government has taken work
By giving citizens the right to access certain government records and to know what our government is doing, the FOIA, Sunshine Law, and CORA give the public the ability to participate in government as well as to hold government accountable ...
How other agencies retrieve emails in response to CORA requests
Ask five agencies how they retrieve email in response to Colorado Open Records Act requests and you'll probably get five different answers ...
Ain’t no sunshine
"Putting the fox in charge of the henhouse" may be an overused phrase — yet it's hard to think of another that more aptly describes the way the city of Colorado Springs responds to records requests for city officials' emails, the Indy has discovered ...
Colorado Supreme Court: Legal fees can be reimbursed in records challenges
The Colorado Supreme Court has sided with open-government advocates in a case over records and court costs. The court ruled 5-2 Monday that people who win open-records lawsuits can be reimbursed for legal fees — even if they win access to only ...
Open government is not without privacy challenges, finds paper
In an effort to be more transparent and participatory, governments are making more data publicly available in machine-readable formats and under open licenses, but such noble aims are not immune to privacy issues, says a paper published June 18 in Fu ...
US National Archives To Upload All Holdings To Wikimedia Commons
Ever since the National Archives and Record Administration launched the Open Government Plan in 2010, it has increasingly been uploading content to Wikipedia to digitize and gain a wider reach for its holdings. But all this time, uploading its digiti ...
PA legislator making headway toward a more transparent and accountable state government
State Sen. Lloyd Smucker is making headway in his efforts toward a more transparent and accountable state government. Smucker, a West Lampeter Township Republican, is chairman of the Senate State Government Committee. read more ...
