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, 8/17/26
surprise vote?; fizzle after FOIA; FOIA for Flock; vacancy correspondence; no more narratives
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Transparency News, 8/14/26
new rules for comments and records; lawsuit response; you gotta file a FOIA for it; $2.4 million vs. free
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Transparency News, 8/13/26
no non-residents, no repetition; censure without explanation; past legal bills; a primer
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Transparency News, 8/12/26
who is participating?; prayer OK? Can anyone answer my FOIA? Anyone?
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Transparency News, 8/10/26
emails & a delayed report; decertified; bullying behind closed doors?; how the story was reported
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Transparency News, 8/7/26
FOIA Friday; not on the payroll; company lobbying residents; ICE body cams
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Transparency News, 8/6/26
new audio AND cameras; FB defamation; their overspending, not mine; no blanket “still interested”
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Transparency News, 8/5/26
COA on the request process; let’s see the lease; GI Bill exploitation; Michigan poll workers
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Transparency News, 8/3/26
lobbying & $$; forever investigating in Richmond, IOW; comment rule change tabled
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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