Newsletter
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Transparency News 1/8/18
lights, camera, action; noose trial; form letters; email meeting
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Sunshine Report for January 2018
The Sunshine Report: Online Transparency News from the Virginia Coalition for Open Government January 2018 General Assembly preview Legislative proposals for the 2018 General Assembly session have been trickling in since late last year, though that trickle will soon become a deluge in advance of legislature’s Jan. 10 start date. Among the proposals already on…
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Transparency News 1/5/18
voter fraud; farm film ban; a thousand FOIAs; prior restraint
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Transparency News 1/4/18
talking too much?; commission disbanded; economic incentive disclosure
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Transparency News 1/3/18
rally cost; new local leaders; memorial mistakes; sheriff associations
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Transparency News 1/2/18
bills; online checkbook; public discussion about mayor; Newtown shooter
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Transparency News 12/29/17
digitizing land records; proactive publication; no more Tweet archiving
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Transparency News 12/28/17
“people have to use FOIA”; MIA cabinet; no privacy violation
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Transparency News 12/22/17
judge relents on press presence; voter registration drives; $600K
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Transparency News 12/21/17
VDOT web site; taking advantage of access; an Amazon RFP response
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Transparency News 12/20/17
FOIA cases against Norfolk, Rappahannock County; student cell phones
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Transparency News 12/19/17
data request denied; Tinker mock trial; $16.89 billion to keep a secret?
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Transparency News 12/18/17
how it came to light; social Pittsylvania; EPA; don’t-publish order
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Transparency News 12/15/17
Woodrum intern; lethal injection info bill; open meeting violation arrests
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Transparency News 12/14/17
auditor/IG; legislators & public records; IT overhaul; reverting to old-school politics
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Transparency News 12/13/17
why the compensation study is confidential; defamation for public meeting comments
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Transparency News 12/12/17
abandoned iPads; no process details; assume you’re being watched
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Transparency News 12/11/17
FOIA legislation on the horizon; compensation study; credit monitoring; who is blocked?
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Sunshine Report for December 2017
The Sunshine Report: Online Transparency News from the Virginia Coalition for Open Government December 2017 VCOG’s annual conference Images (courtesy of VCOG board member Lou Emerson) from VCOG’s annual conference: Top row, from left: Jeff Schwaner, reporter at The News Leader, receives his open government award for media for his work on a story that led…
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Transparency News 12/8/17
developer IDs; meeting cleared; collaborative class; call for Senate reports
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Transparency News 12/6/17
reax to hasty vote; admin decision; absolved, but why; public sector & the Great Recession
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Transparency News 12/5/17
plan without input; Fairfax tells FBI to release video; irrelevant intent
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Transparency News 12/4/17
Amazon proposal; victim ID law makes work for police; student 1st A rights
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Transparency News 12/1/17
his own report; public comment spat; tattoo recognition tech; crime data
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Transparency News 11/30/17
resignations; phantom bids; commissioners arrested; w/holding important community information