Sunshine Week is a national initiative that encourages people to better understand the importance of people's right to know what their government is doing, and why.
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- March 2005
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- 12 Countries Sign European Access to Info Treaty 11:24am Jun 18
- Action Plan for Info Access in the Americas Released 2:05pm May 21
- For A Limited Time: Your Donation Brings More 12:13pm May 14
Access Info Europe reports that 12 nations have signed the Council of Europe Convention on Access to Official Documents, the world's first treaty on access to information.Signers are: Belgium, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Hungary, Lithuania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Norway, Serbia, Slovenia, and Sweden...
From the Carter Center:Atlanta . . . Participants in a conference on the right of access to information released today their findings and plan of action to advance the right in the Americas...
As some of you may have read, the ASNE Foundation — under which Sunshine Week operates — is ending its endowment campaign at the end of 2009. Th...
Martin Kaiser, editor of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, talks about his upcoming year as president of the American Society of News Editors. Read more in The American Editor.
The first of the Sunshine Week 2009 gallery posts are up on the Web site. Lots more are on the way, so be sure to keep checking back every now and again.
There could be fewer Sunshine Week presents more welcome in the FOI community than the new "Holder memo," a directive from U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder directing all executive branch departments and agencies to administer Freedom of Information Act requests with a presumption of openness...
Most Americans can easily find videos of water skiing squirrels on the Internet but they’ll have less luck finding out whether their children's school buses and classrooms are safe, or if neighborhood gas s...
For the first time in four years, public opinion about government secrecy has leveled off, although more than seven in 10 adults still consider the federal government to be secretive, according to the 2009 Sunshine Week survey by Scripps Howard News Service and Ohio University.Since 2006,...
Coming soon: Spanish Sunshine Week public service ads are available for use online, in print or for broadcast...
Coming soon: Online ads; print ads in Spanish Print and broadcast public service ads for Sunshine Week 2009 focus on how Freedom of Information and Sunshine laws can make citizens local heroes by making a difference in their communities when they get involved and hold government accountable...
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