The right of the private citizenry to make a public record request has, at least until recently, required local and federal governments to maintain a certain level of transparency. But a disturbing new trend has private citizens and even journalists flummoxed.
In Louisiana, Michigan, Kentucky, and Oregon, individuals requesting public records...
The race for 2016 has shifted the focus of the media and many Americans away from the IRS scandal, but a new development in the story has come to light.
Over 6,000 Lois Lerner emails have been found but the IRS is stalling on sharing them.
You’ll never guess why.
Gerri Willis of...
So much for The Most Open and Transparent Administration in the History of the World©.”
Analysis by the Associated Press shows that last year the Obama Administration set a new record for either denying access to or censoring government documents when responding to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.
From the AP:
The...
Big Brother is making an effort at transparency—and it might just work.
The Seattle Police Department has taken information accessibility to a new level by posting redacted footage from its officers’ body cameras online. You can view the channel here (it’s not a stream, and each “episode” is posted separately.) Here’s...
Turns out Twitter is also fed up with this administration’s war on transparency.
Last month, Twitter released a report detailing how they’d been banned from reporting the extent of government surveillance on the platform. In that report Twitter explained:
“…if...
