Susan Crawford is a Bloomberg View columnist and a professor of law at Cardozo School of Law. She’s provided a nice look at global transparency movements here, as well as the lack of momentum in the United States: When Brazil’s government buys anything from fighter jets to a fancy villa, details are available online within 24 hours. Such [...]
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Raum Emanuel, in three months as Chicago mayor, has done more to open City Hall to sunlight than any mayor in the country….from the Sun-Times: Information on more than 90,000 city contracts dating back to 1993 will be available and easy to download on the Internet, thanks to Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s latest move to shine [...]
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Thanks to whoever sent me this on Twitter today (I completely forgot) because it is waaaaaaaaay past AWESOME: Simply send in a suggestion for a dataset you want online, and the state of Oregon reviews it, triages it and then puts it up if it’s public information. So cool! cd
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Details about every new court challenge to the withholding of information by the Obama Administration are now available on a new website developed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC). Designed to bring more transparency to FOIA withholding decisions, the new site — http://FOIAproject.org — gives the American people a way to track all instances in which a federal agency’s [...]
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