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, 7/14/21
shouts and heckling; police databases; shared videos; constitutional right to know?
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Transparency News, 7/13/21
suit dismissed; embezzlement; no blocking; Marine records
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Transparency News, 7/12/21
FOIA Council meeting set; suggested I keep it quiet; pandemic commission?
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Transparency News, 7/8/21
can they move the meeting; FOIA against citizen?; public input on public comment
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Transparency News, 7/7/21
council members at odds and picking replacements without public input
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Transparency News, 7/6/21
scheduling; local emergency; vice mayor’s vote; I’ve got the floor
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Transparency News, 7/2/21
FOIA full text; recall response; post-emergency courts
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Transparency News, 6/30/21
return to “normal”; filling seats; cost of review; Nixon tapes
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Transparency News, 6/29/21
masking complaints, more personal than political, GIS, threats to journalists
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Transparency News, 6/28/21
the future of e-meetings; comment compromise; records challenge narrative
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Transparency News, 6/25/21
First Amendment & case filings; on school board appointees-you won’t know until we tell you
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Transparency News, 6/24/21
meetings meeting today; defamation; embezzlement; police data website
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Transparency News, 6/23/21
public comment chaos; online interest ≠ showing up; public — not member — participation
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Transparency News, 6/22/21
E-meetings; body camera experiments; don’t block FOIA in emergencies
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Transparency News, 6/21/21
workshop video; dog sale; parole board recommendations & report criticism
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Transparency News, 6/17/21
back to city hall; FOIA argument, restraining order; considerate of residents
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Transparency News, 6/16/21
Staunton policy on FOIA; returning to the meeting room; letter on athletes
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Transparency News, 6/15/21
investigation of the investigation; pumping the brakes; trust
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Transparency News, 6/14/21
today’s meeting; why encryption; a conduit email address
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Transparency News, 6/11/21
shooting footage; Harrisonburg in person; withdrawn because of restrictions
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Transparency News, 6/10/21
differing reports; public employee discipline; no campaign photo
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Transparency News, 6/9/21
reprimand; rescheduled because of notice; the irony of body cams
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Transparency News, 6/8/21
happening now: oral arguments; budget documents; defamation & FOIA retaliation?
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Transparency News, 6/7/21
sanctions denied; not renewed but no discussion; “come with everything you have”
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Transparency News, 6/4/21
3 different views of the budget; in-person w/out virtual comment; Fauci, DeSantis & email