Sunshine Report

Sunshine Report for January 2025: personal devices; disconnects; fee legislation; FOIA heroes; and our annual conference keynoter

Sunshine Report for December 2024: delayed until sentencing; FOIA Council opinions; digital cities; open government in the news

Sunshine Report for November 2024

Sunshine Report for October 2024: another report we won’t get to see; anonymous police; upcoming events; LIS reboot

Sunshine Report for September 2024: malware, FOIA Council, a Court of Appeals ruling, our next conference, and the usual roundup of notable FOIA stories

Sunshine Report for August 2024: FOIA Council opinions and studies; animal testing; mayors and managers; more Richmond woes

Sunshine Report for July 2024: UVA, the CA and that darned report; oral arguments; upcoming studies; open government news.

Sunshine Report for June 2024: amicus briefs, a summer intern, FOIA Council moves (and gripes), more than 20 open-government news items

Sunshine Report for May 2024

Sunshine Report for April 2024: bombshell; more on our conference and award winners; Zoom gone wrong and lots, lots more

Sunshine Report for March 2024: Richmond woes; last two bills; FOIA Council opinions; attorney invoices; internal email

Sunshine Report for February 2024: attorney-client limits; open gov at the GA; secret ballots

Sunshine Report for January 2024: new faces; anonymous & specific employees; running a council; open government news

Sunshine Report for December 2023: Peter Easter; reporting on the reports; VCOG at the FOIA Council; plenty of open government news briefs

Sunshine Report for November 2023: an indefensible interpretation; a tale of two reports; why more litigation; is there a parliamentarian in the house?

Sunshine Report for October 2023: friend of the court brief; investigation report; subcommittees; plus open government headlines

Sunshine Report for September 2023: dog days; post office boxes; pricey contracts; save-the-date

Sunshine Report for June 2023: FOIA & the ADA; FOIA Fridays; public votes; bribery; release, but not to the public

Sunshine Report for June 2023: another SCOVA ruling; lasting impacts of COVID; aggressive replies; Twitter threads, podcasts and tons of news

Sunshine Report for May 2023: Supreme Court ruling; library on the go; so many working papers and attorney/client exemptions, interviews in the open

Sunshine Report for April 2023: our survey of state agency websites; conference wrap-up; threads and op-eds; lots of open government news

Sunshine Report for March 2023: legislative wrap up; award winner; eye roll of the month; and the stupidest person?

Sunshine Report for February 2023: Busytown lobbyist; eye roll of the month; short-staffed DOE, jails & what that means for FOIA; televised bid opening

Sunshine Report for December 2022: annual conference info, the tipline, frequent filers, digital cities, code names and much more