Immigration Atty Decries 'Kafkaesque' FOIA Fight With USCIS
An immigration attorney accusing U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services of a “Kafkaesque” failure to comply with a document request on Tuesday urged a Louisiana federal court to order the agency to...
View ArticleOpen government group urges Delaware Governer Markell to respond to FOIA...
The head of a local open government group called on Governor Markell to respond to Freedom of Information Act requests for information about a "secret" state email account. Delaware Coalition for Open...
View ArticleSunlight FOIA request leads to more open data, updated OMB policy
A Freedom of Information Act request from the Sunlight Foundation has turned into federal policy on agency data holdings, the foundation reported.read more
View ArticleAkron City Council routinely approves legislation public hasn't seen
Akron City Council often flouts rules designed to allow the public to follow city government and weigh in on proposals before they become law. Akron's city charter requires legislation to be posted...
View ArticleEDITORIAL: Sunshine wasn't a Stalin plot
DeFuniak Springs City Councilman Kermit Wright really, really, really doesn’t like Florida’s open-government, or sunshine, laws. And he doesn’t mind saying so. “The sunshine law is a communist plot...
View ArticleRialto Square Theatre of Joliet, Illinois deals with FOIA deluge
In another sign of the increased attention being paid to the Rialto Square Theatre, the organization’s Freedom of Information Act officer has resigned because she does not have time to keep up with...
View ArticleEditorial:Hawaii Sen. Mazie Hirono Should Continue to Resist Efforts to...
In an era where the government collects more information than ever before, the importance of maintaining public access to that information becomes a bigger concern with each passing year. That point...
View ArticleOpinion: More local government transparency needed for Ohio campaign finance...
At a public meeting in Oakland, California, early in 2014, an analyst with the city's Public Ethics Commission proposed the idea of building an app that would help residents understand who actually...
View ArticleFederal agencies fail freedom of information test by Syracuse University
When it comes to providing information to the public, 14 out of 21 U.S. government agencies receive poor marks for responding to records requests, according to a study published online Friday by...
View ArticleBill requiring more information from campus police passes Illinois House
The Illinois House on Friday passed HB 3932, legislation that would require private campus police to release the same information as municipal police. The bill — introduced in February by state Rep....
View ArticleOpinion: Open government is a state of mind
That's easy for him to say — easy for House Republicans to hear — because they were in the room. The other 19 million people of Florida were locked out. It's their money, their lives, their...
View ArticleClark Co. Park District’s Executive Director using Facebook to Intimidate...
This afternoon, Charity Murphy, the Executive Director of the Clark County Park District decided to use Facebook as a means to intimidate Freedom of Information Act requesters into submission through...
View ArticleNew York Times Gets Stellarwind IG Report Under FOIA
The secrecy surrounding the National Security Agency’s post-9/11 warrantless surveillance and bulk data collection program hampered its effectiveness, and many members of the intelligence community...
View ArticleEditorial: Ohio needs public records audits
The ongoing assault by Ohio Republican lawmakers on public records laws and those who fight for citizen access to records shows no signs of slowing down. House Republicans tried to use the state's...
View ArticleU.S. releases report on NSA’s call collection program
The Obama administration on Saturday unveiled a 6-year-old report examining a once-secret program to collect information on Americans’ calls and e-mails, as debate gears up over the coming expiration...
View ArticleWisconsin moving open government into the digital age
Last month on this page, state Attorney General Brad Schimel called for updating the state's open government laws to meet the challenges of the digital age. He's exactly right. The laws were enacted...
View ArticleOpinion: Federal government fails basic openness test
You’d think that if you were going to get a timely and adequate response to a Freedom of Information Act request from the federal government, it would be from the Department of Justice’s Office of...
View ArticleEditorial: We need to strengthen the Freedom of Information Act
President Barack Obama routinely promises to provide greater transparency within the federal government. Now, Congress is making strides toward achieving this critical goal. The House of...
View ArticleDewey Beach of Delaware increases price for document requests
Despite an outcry from members of the public, Dewey Beach Town Council increased the cost of documents requested under the Freedom of Information Act. The 4-1 vote came during council’s April 11...
View ArticleNo basis for Virginia Supreme Court to withhold records, state council says
Statewide court records maintained by the Supreme Court of Virginia should be publicly available in compiled form, according to an opinion issued by the state's Freedom of Information Advisory...
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