Wisconsin open records advocates and municipal leaders have brokered a truce in a fight over police record redactions, creating a request form that allows the public to get clean copies if they reveal who they are and why they want the documents. rea ...

In part one of my interview with Pia Mancini, a political activist, I investigated the technologies and background of DemocracyOS, a project aiming to become the operating system of choice for government workers. In part two of my interview with Manc ...

After promising not to withhold government information over "speculative or abstract fears," the Obama administration has concluded it will not publicly disclose federal records that could shed light on the security of the government's health care website because doing so could "potentially" allow hackers to break in. read more ...

The candidates for Ohio governor travel the state shaking hands and having coffee with voters, which makes them seem pretty accessible and open. But in reality, when it comes to transparency in how they conduct business, experts and observ ...

The Grand Junction Regional Airport Board finds themselves amid another legal controversy. A law firm from Denver is accusing the Board of illegally conducting their latest search for a new airport director by violating Colorado Open Meetings Laws ...

City Council members said they hope the restrictions they have placed on a charter amendment that would allow for closed meetings to discuss legal matters related to municipalization will give voters enough comfort to overcome decades of Boulder political tradition ...

The Colorado Supreme Court dealt the final blow to Colorado Treasurer Walker Stapleton's attempt to get the records of the Colorado Public Employees' Retirement Association's top benefit recipients ...

All governments share a common temptation: to use their power to evade accountability. Several police officers proved it again last week in Ferguson, Missouri. In the middle of heated demonstrations over the shooting of Michael Brown, two reporters ...

What's your dragon attack plan? Freedom of Information Acts are a powerful transparency tool between governments and constituents. But they can also yield to some pretty freaky inquiries–as we found out Saturday when an organization of local governments representing more than 350 councils in England and Wales released a list of the most unusual requests they had received so far this year read more ...

Now — from the minister who saved the government $15 billion without telling Parliament what he cut; the policy-maker who eliminated Canada's information-laden census and chopped Statistics Canada's budget by $30 million; the MP who siphoned $50 million out of a border security fund to build band shells and gazebos in his riding — comes Tony Clement's latest initiative: a "new action plan on open government." read more ...