From Port City Daily:
One week after Port City Daily sent public records requests to five municipal law enforcement agencies, only one agency fully complied with the public records request.
On Friday, March 8, Port City Daily sent a public records request to Wilmington, Leland, Wrightsville Beach, Surf City and Carolina Beach police departments.
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From KPBS:
Marking Sunshine Week in San Diego, Mayor Bob Filner on Thursday unveiled a new section of the city website that makes good on his promise for open government—putting in one place information on the pensions being paid city retirees as well as all lawsuits involving City Hall.
With his open-government chief Donna Frye standing beside him, he displayed what Frye called one of the most transparent city sites in the state, if not the nation.
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From Oakland Local:
This past week was “International Sunshine Week,” a national initiative dedicated to educating the American public about the importance of open and accessible government.
Here in Oakland, we have done a lot in recent days to advance the cause of open local government, so we too had much to celebrate last week.
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From AberdeenNews.com:
Look at City Attorney Adam Altman’s desk, which has stacks of folders and documents pertaining to every city department, and you likely could ask to see any of it instantly.
“The only stuff that’s tough is the stuff that takes time to assemble,” he said.
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From AustinDailyHerald.com:
You have a right to know. This is Sunshine Week, a time to celebrate access to government and to remind officials that their records and meetings are your records and meetings.
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From Fredericksburg.com:
This is Sunshine Week, the one week in the year when open-government advocates celebrate the concept that government should operate in the open and that secrecy in government is bad government.
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From The Progressive Pulse:
Public records in the North Carolina offer a chance to peer into the depths of state government, and see what is and what isn’t working.
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From myCentralJersey.com:
WASHINGTON — Members of Congress are now posting their stock transactions online on a regular basis to comply with a law enacted 11 months ago to curtail illegal insider trading by lawmakers and their staffs.
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From Watchdog.org:
A recent New Jersey Watchdog investigation revealed 45 “retired” school chiefs had returned to the public payroll, double-dipping millions of dollars a year from pension funds and local education budgets.
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From The Center for Media and Democracy’s PRWatch:
“If Wisconsin were not known as the Dairy State it could be known, and rightfully so, as the Sunshine State,” the Wisconsin Supreme Court observed in 2010. “All branches of Wisconsin government have, over many years, kept a strong commitment to transparent government.”
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