Transparency News
Our free daily email alert will keep you up to date with right-to-know, transparency, First Amendment and related issues in Virginia and around the country. The alert goes out 5 mornings a week and provides links to news stories, articles and commentaries, as well as updates on open government issues at the General Assembly or interim study commissions.
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Transparency News, 4/2/25
reading room pilot; everyone, resign!; DC closes many meetings; FOIA shuttered at HHS+
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Transparency News, 3/31/25
water at VCU; vice mayor/police chief; JFK, RFK, CIA; Gene Hackman
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Transparency News, 3/28/25
ruling against CA upheld; availability of Flock data; reliability scale
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Transparency News, 3/27/25
messages behind the scandal; FOIA standoffs in other state legislatures
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Transparency News, 3/26/25
vetoes and delays; MUST not disclose?; physical and anticipated removal?
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Transparency News, 3/25/25
wrongful death settlement; audits; not just for reporters
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Transparency News, 3/24/25
flawed release, 28 months later; declaratory judgments; more notice
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Transparency News, 3/21/25
Sunshine Week; reconsideration: did you prevail if you got the records after all?
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Transparency News, 3/19/25
Sunshine Week; convictions sealed; amounts paid unsealed
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Transparency News, 3/18/25
Sunshine Week!; 990s; FOIA rights of board members; Prince Harry
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Transparency News, 3/17/25
Sunshine Week!; severance, but for whom?; cleared of conflict
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Transparency News, 3/14/25
notice of appeal; change of heart on withholding; thanks to our sponsors
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Transparency News, 3/13/25
localities go to court to avoid FOIA; water crisis email
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Transparency News, 3/12/25
grants, gifts, does it matter?; order to shred/burn; timelines & deliberations
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Transparency News, 3/11/25
audits, receipts, records; advisory boards; road surveillance
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Transparency News, 3/10/25
FIS is not a good look; residency; lottery bill is/isn’t; lesson plans
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Transparency News, 3/7/25
FOIA Friday; inspection report; comments and closed sessions; ballot Qs
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Transparency News, 3/6/25
CAV opinion; she said, she said; intentional absence; unnecessary secrecy over appointment
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Transparency News, 3/4/25
agenda setting by members; live streaming committees; confidentiality agreement
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Transparency News, 3/3/25
bills without votes; seat appointment records; don’t be “so afraid of FOIA”
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Transparency News, 2/28/25
Our open govt award winners; FOIA Friday; is it a public body?
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Transparency News, 2/27/25
FERPA usurper; when records contradict; $22k FOIA violation?; intimidation?
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Transparency News, 2/26/25
FOIA win at the Court of Appeals; 2×2 meetings; transparent appointment process
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Transparency News, 2/25/25
lottery winners; national security in a state?; more time; DOGE & FOIA
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Transparency News, 2/24/25
there’s been clarity; digital history; onsite sewage, but not police misconduct