IRE joins NFOIC and MLRC for the national biennial member survey
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Twitter has shut off access to 31 accounts that chronicled and archived the deleted tweets of politicians, diplomats and embassies around the world.
The move follows the social network’s earlier blocking of Politwoops US, which archived deleted tweets by American lawmakers. Continue>>>
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We knew we'd get to this point in the Hillary Clinton e-mail story eventually: examining the nitty gritty of how information gets classified.
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Read More… from Everything you need to know about how the State Department classifies information
Sponsors of legislation that would create an Ethics Commission in Vermont say they're optimistic that their proposal will become law during the 2016 session.
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Read More… from Vermont Government Needs Transparency, Supporters Of Ethics Commission Say
Because TCOG gets so many questions and complaints from citizens who wonder what they can do when their elected officials in a local government violate the state’s Open Meetings Act, we’ve set up new Open Meetings Complaint page on TCOG’s website under the “Resources” tab to explain some options.
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HARRISBURG — The state’s Office of Open Records has ruled that government agencies are not permitted to charge fees if people requesting public records wish to use their smartphones to photograph the records they are examining.
The ruling, issued Friday, concerned a case in Reserve. Continue>>>
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Next to the Federal Election Commission’s front door is a quotation from former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis: “Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants."
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WHAT: Push, Pull and Spill: A Transdisciplinary Case Study in Municipal Open Government, a report by the University of Washington School of Law.
WHY: The push to open more government data at state and local levels led a cross-disciplinary team of researchers to assess open government efforts in Seattle. The analysis explored the city’s open data procedures, and their implications for privacy, public trust and citywide impact. Continue>>>
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The Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, has received a lot of attention lately. As has the subject of public officials using personal e-mail accounts to conduct government business.
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Read More… from Illinois Public Access Counselor talks about the Freedom of Information Act
Invested with new authority to prosecute violations of state open-government laws, Attorney General Derek Schmidt’s office will co-host a three-hour training session on transparency on Sept. 1 in Topeka.
The Kansas Sunshine Coalition for Open Government will co-host the event. Continue>>>
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