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, 7/31/26
UVA lobbying; pink slime; service deaths; the egg juror
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Transparency News, 7/30/26
internal FOIA dispute; public notice issues again?; new AV equipment (but grandstanding?)
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Transparency News, 7/29/26
residents only; in a cave; school personnel, student records; a report CAN be released (!)
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Transparency News, 7/28/26
the data center tipping point?; release past reports; don’t disclose the NDA
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Transparency News, 7/27/26
complaint from and about FOIA; tracking park users; transparency cover charge; $2.4 million
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Transparency News, 7/24/26
DEQ emails; censure; NC State v. VCU; board members don’t like to be blindsided
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Transparency News, 7/23/26
blindsided; the anonymous attorney; only residents can speak; adoption records
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Transparency News, 7/22/26
council subcommittees; another encryption county; we deserve transparency; let’s livestream
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Transparency News, 7/21/26
the cost of financial paper trail; data center plans & FOIA; war information
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Transparency News, 7/20/26
video, but no juror names, unsealed; no to curfew losses; political use of FOIA
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Transparency News, 7/17/26
Botetourt water; more financial data; falsified records; judge rules for ICE
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Transparency News, 7/16/26
AI for body cams; authority to call a hearing?; hands are tied; Epstein, State Department, DOD & FOIA
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Transparency News, 7/15/26
wiretaps; encryption; camera feeds; pivots
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Transparency News, 7/10/26
landfill testing; former mayor wants current mayor removed; too late to wait
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Transparency News, 7/9/26
not a meeting; ICE detentions; toxic gas; salary database; states and the Fair
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Transparency News, 7/6/26
was there notice?; handprint; FOIA needs enforcement reform
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Transparency News, 7/3/26
records and the DOI; FOIA reveals Project Flash; there IS an investigation; leak contempt
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Transparency News, 7/2/26
updated resources; FOIA Council opinions; adoption records; a summary, but not the report
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Transparency News, 7/1/26
release of the previously redacted report; main street & FOIA; salary database
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Transparency News, 6/30/26
mystery motions; email shutdown; new oversight; no firm relationship
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Transparency News, 6/29/26
water disclosure; investigation after FOIA-based report; protecting staff; slander per se
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Transparency News, 6/26/26
sealed investigation?; cyber attack; FOIA portal going live
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Transparency News, 6/25/26
court says redactions were wrong; shelter records; footage released; abrupt meeting actions; fed FOIA doesn’t apply
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Transparency News, 6/24/26
no records; settlements and barbs; a tale of two severances; fed FOIA law enforcement exemption
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Transparency News, 6/22/26
audits to continue; no charges; bill waived; drone agreement; Biden order