Virginia citizen satisfied with decision in Virginia FOIA case
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View ArticleEditorial: Two more positive steps toward more open government
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View ArticleWhy journalists need to get behind the #opendata movement
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View ArticleBlogger wins lawsuit vs. Fairfield Twp. (Ohio) over public records
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View ArticleNFOIC director to head new TV channel covering Maine Legislature
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View ArticleStand with Sen. Wyden for free speech
From Project on Government Oversight: The U.S. Senate was on the verge of passing a bill that would have increased government secrecy, put whistleblowers in jeopardy, and made government less...
View ArticlePenn State faculty member battles Pentagon over interrogation secrecy
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View ArticleNewly Released Drone Records Reveal Extensive Military Flights in US
From Electronic Frontier Foundation: Today EFF posted several thousand pages of new drone license records and a new map that tracks the location of done flights across the United States.read more
View ArticleAAUP Urges Resistance to Confidentiality Demands in Shared Governance
From Chronicle.com:The American Association of University Professors plans to urge faculty members to resist being bound by pledges of confidentiality as a condition for involvement in shared...
View ArticleA marathon freedom of information fight
From American Journalism Review:In the Sixties, an era defined by the counterculture and social revolution, the University of California, Berkeley became a center of student activism. It was home to...
View ArticleConsumers blindsided by secret settlements in hi-tech patent lawsuits
From Peter Scheer at the First Amendment Coalition of California: Apple recently announced that it had reached a global settlement of its patent disputes with HTC, a producer of smartphones using...
View ArticlePoderopedia Launches Public Beta with Crowdsourced Data Journalism
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View ArticleCourt case highlights Arkansas FOIA questions
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View ArticleGov. Bobby Jindal skirts around open records laws
From DailyWorld.com: Louisiana's public records law gives the governor a sweeping exemption that can keep many issues secret, but the administration of Gov. Bobby Jindal appears to be breaking new...
View ArticleState of open data in Philly: Read the open government plan, and more on the...
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View ArticleEditorial: "E" in "email" should not stand for "evasion"
By Kenneth F. Bunting from NFOIC: COLUMBIA, Mo. – Soon after getting the first CNN producer’s message asking about my availability for a live, next-morning segment with their anchor, I responded...
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NFOIC's State FOIA Friday for December 21, 2012
A few state FOIA and local open government news items selected from many of interest that we might or might not have drawn attention to earlier in the week:read more
View ArticleNursing transparency in former Soviet republics
From NFOIC:COLUMBIA, Mo – Our work at the National Freedom of Information Coalition (NFOIC) focuses primarily on citizen access, transparency and open government issues at the state and local level....
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NFOIC's State FOIA Friday for December 28, 2012
A few state FOIA and local open government news items selected from many of interest that we might or might not have drawn attention to earlier in the week:read more
View ArticleEconomic Development Agencies Face New Scrutiny
From Pew Center on the States:Several states, most of them led by Republican governors, have experimented in recent years with the idea of turning their economic development agencies over to...
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