Sunshine Report

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

Sunshine Report for November 2022: rulings good and bad; at the FOIA Council; eye roll; let’s go to the tape; $12,000 bill

Registrars deluged; Norfolk ruling; craziness in Spotsylvania; lots of stories based on FOIA’ed documents

Sunshine Report for September 2022: unusual arguments, records that contradict, abrupt resignations, contentious meetings and lots more

public records repository; looking ahead to 2023; making a choice to withhold; National FOI Summit; and more

Sunshine Report for July 2022: new laws; citizen+VCOG=superhero; library repository; and tumultuous times in several places

conference wrap-up; the Uniform Law Commission; best practices; names/no names; court rulings; high fees; and so, so much more

Sunshine Report for May 2022: A litigation month like no other; our conference – register or be a donor; open government news

Sunshine Report for April 2022: Save the date!; General Assembly wrap-up; public comment pecking order; don’t mention him; fair trial; and much more

Sunshine Report for March 2022: wrong on working papers; opposed to roll-back; not a quorum; minimal disclosure on I-95 back-up; and more open government news

Sunshine Report for February 2022: legislative update; Jenay Tate; forensic records; procedures ignored; court record access & more

New bill charts; NFOIC announcement; apathetic, not lazy; the Kamikazie option; and many more open government news bites

Sunshine Report for December 2021: redistricting comments; 3 council-endorsed proposals; body cam release roundup; lots of litigation; more

Sunshine Report for November 2021: considering electronic means; intra-board sniping; what FOIA’ed emails can show

The Sunshine Report for October 2021: busy month for FOIA in the court, arrest lists, FOIA stats, and items not on the agenda

Sunshine Report for September 2021: we must behave better; our annual report; Bloody Mary garnishes; lots of open government news

Forrest M. “Frosty” Landon Sept. 24, 1937 – July 19, 2021 The founding director of the Virginia Coalition for Open Government, Forrest M. “Frosty” Landon died in Roanoke on July 19 after a long battle with Parkinson’s Disease. He was 87. Frosty was more FOIA than FOIA itself. He knew the law inside and out…