With the 24-hour news cycle and at-your-fingers access to the latest stories, the American people have plenty of information constantly available to them. And whether they know it or not, they are using much of that information as a de facto source for evaluating the effectiveness of government.
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Kansas handed out tax credits for plugging abandoned oil wells and shooting a movie in the state in 2013, but the state Department of Revenue won’t say how much they were worth or who got them.
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What kind of bottled water do state legislators and their staff prefer? How about judges?
Those answers are available under an online program of financial transparency compiled by state comptroller Kevin Lembo. The latest expansion, unveiled Wednesday, allows citizens to find out all kinds of answers about the state budget over the past five years. Continue>>>
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SACRAMENTO – Assemblyman Scott Wilk’s, R- Santa Clarita, bill AB 85 which will stop state agencies from taking advantage of a loophole that allows them to hold closed door meetings without public involvement passed unanimously out of the Senate Governmental Organization Committee.
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It didn't take long for journalists to criticize the flaw — for them — in the federal government's new pilot program on making public all responses to Freedom of Information Act requests. It didn't take much longer for open government advocates to suggest the reporters were putting their interests ahead of the public's.
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With considerable discussion and side events expected next week at the Financing for Development Conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on the importance of transparency and open data, it is worth noting recent improvement within our own government that strengthens our voice on data transparency.
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CLEVELAND – Five months after their initial roll out, police body cameras are now in four of Cleveland’s five police districts. Police are asking for public feedback through an online survey as some question whether the program is achieving its goals, which include accountability and transparency.
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DINWIDDIE — Dinwiddie County was one of only 10 counties in the state to receive an “A+” rating for transparency between the people and government.
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Score one for transparency.
State senators apparently have eliminated a loophole in Right-to-Know legislation that would have enabled Pennsylvania’s state-related universities to shield from the public many of their highest employee salaries. Continue>>>
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The FCC has set comment deadlines on its request for input on whether it should maintain a temporary exemption from enhanced transparency requirements under its new Title II-based network neutrality rules.
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