Lawyers representing the Daily Press are gearing up to convince a panel of state Supreme Court justices later this summer that the full court should hear the newspaper's case seeking access to a statewide database of court information.
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The “open data” movement has produced a deluge of publicly available information this decade, as governments like those in the UK and US have released large volumes of data for general use.
But the flood has left researchers and data scientists with a problem: how do they find the best data sets, ensure these are accurate and up to date, and combine them with other sources of information? Continue…
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Wisconsin’s government transparency laws don’t require public bodies such as the University of Wisconsin System’s Board of Regents to immediately disclose the documents that their members plan to discuss at upcoming meetings, a Justice Department official said Thursday.
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Governor Terry McAuliffe today announced the Open Data, Open Jobs initiative to better connect job seekers with job opportunities. The Open Data, Open Jobs initiative provides a new open data set of available jobs in Virginia to equip innovators, programmers, and researchers with accessible data to help the Commonwealth offer new and creative approaches to articulating employer needs for talent and matching job seekers to job opportunities.
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At a July 6 hearing of the D.C. Council Committee on Housing and Community Relations, the Coalition opposed a bill to exempt Advisory Neighborhood Commissions from the Freedom of Information Act. Board member LaVita Tuff testified that the bill would perpetuate ANCs' blanket exemption from the Open Meetings Act as well.
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The D.C. Open Government Coalition testified July 6 to the D.C. Council opposing legislation to exempt the 41 Advisory Neighborhood Commissions from public records and open meetings laws.
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Read More… from D.C. Coalition Opposes FOIA Exemption for D.C. Neighborhood Commissions
A Georgia judge who convinced a prosecutor to indict a local newspaper publisher and his attorney after investigative reporting on use of a racial slur to describe a defendant and another man in open court now finds herself in the hot seat after the story became a national outrage.
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Every 10 years — after the decennial census and as mandated by the U.S. Constitution – states are subdivided into sets of congressional districts for representation in the U.S. House of Representatives. GovTrack provides maps of these congressional boundaries for your reference and makes the maps available for embedding on other sites.
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THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT turns 50 on July 4. This is cause for celebration—and not just because President Obama signed a significant FOIA reform bill to mark the occasion (and atone in some small way for his abysmal FOIA record).
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Read More… from CJR: ‘Kicking and screaming’: 50 years of FOIA
Gov. Scott Walker met criticisms from Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday with a challenge to implement stronger open records procedures in the Legislature.
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