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- Letter to Supreme Court: Make live audio streaming permanent, accessibleThe National Freedom of Information Coalition and 75 other organizations signed a letter urging Chief Justice Roberts and the Supreme Court to permanently provide live audio access to oral arguments….
- Winners of research competition to present findings at 2021 FOI SummitFive research papers have been accepted to the third annual National Freedom of Information Coalition FOI research competition, to be presented online Sept. 28, 2021, at the FOI Summit. In…
- Letter, signed by NFOIC, urges New York governor to publish COVID dataTen open government groups, including the National Freedom of Information Coalition, signed a Sept. 7, 2021, letter urging New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to publish COVID-19 data. “Publishing COVID data…
- States with coalitions for open government are more transparent, new study findsA study published in the August 2021 edition of The Journal of Civic Information found that states with coalitions for open government are more likely to have counties that are…
- Law enforcement would benefit everyone by democratizing its data, column arguesDemocratizing law enforcement data could benefit everyone — the police and the public they serve — argue Nancy La Vigne and Roy L. Austin Jr. of the Council on Criminal Justice Task…
- Attorney general’s position in lawsuit is concerning, Iowa transparency advocate saysThe executive director of the Iowa Freedom of Information Council has raised concerns about court filings in which the attorney general’s office suggests the state’s freedom of information law is…
- Connecticut requires police body cameras, but bill doesn’t appoint overseerConnecticut police departments must equip all officers with body cameras by July 2022. But the bill requiring body cameras didn’t designate a state agency to oversee implementation. “There is no…
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