NSA denies all requests for personal information
WASHINGTON — Since last year’s revelations about the National Security Agency’s massive communications data dragnets, the spy agency has been inundated with requests from Americans and others wanting to know if it has files on them ...
EPA Fraudster’s Records Sought in FOIA Request
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More Transparency on Agenda for NYPD and New York City Council
While there was a lot of hype about a report that the NYPD is testing Google Glass, in the short-term a policy-shift toward more accessible NYPD data has the potential to be more consequential for New Yorkers at large. read more ...
Latin leaders call for transparency
Leaders of Latin America have called for more transparency in governments, as it is the key to building trust between the state and its citizens. In a session moderated by Sultan Bin Saaed Al Mansouri, Minister of Economy, representatives of L ...
Magazines sue Colorado over marijuana advertising restrictions
From The Denver Post: The publisher of marijuana magazine High Times has sued the state of Colorado in federal court over the state's rules preventing recreational cannabis businesses from advertising in most publications. High Times, along with local weekly magazine Westword, filed the lawsuit on Monday. It marks the first time anyone has challenged the restrictions in court. The rules allow recreational marijuana businesses to advertise only in publications that are adult-oriented. According to the state's rules, recreational marijuana stores can advertise only in a publication that "has reliable evidence that no more than 30 percent of the publication's readership ...
Time for Legislature to live by open government rules
With policy cutoff behind us, the list of living and walking dead bills (nothing is really dead till sine die) is being compiled. Among the proposals that didn’t even receive a hearing, however, is a bill based on WPC’s recommendation for ...
Group opposes Supreme Court review of Chancery Court’s arbitration forum
An open government organization that has waged a successful legal challenge to the Delaware Court of Chancery’s secret arbitration forum is opposing a U.S. Supreme Court review of the case, saying it doesn’t rise to the highest court&rsqu ...
Esri To Enable Thousands Of Government Agencies To Open GIS Data To The Public
A debate in the technology world that's been simmering for years, about whether mapping vendor Esri will allow public geographic information systems (GIS) to access government customers' data, finally has an answer: The mapping software giant will take an unprecedented step, enabling thousands of government customers around the U.S. to make their data on the ArcGIS platform open to the public with a click of a mouse. read more ...
Wisconsin legislator nixes UW record exemptions
The head of the state Assembly’s colleges committee said Monday he won’t allow the panel to vote on a bill that would largely keep University of Wisconsin System research activities secret, defusing a looming fight between the system and ...
