Transparency News

post paper; contract breach; FOIA fund; original documentation

participatory budgeting; encrypted messaging

vaccine data; lots of FOIA requests, and your point?; not as many outright awful

FOIA bills on parole board, carbon sequestration & virtual meetings; standing to enforce retention

VCOG daily access news, 1/19/21:subcommittee recap: YOUR VOICE MATTERS

closed noted was “not ideal”; failure rates; fed FOIA litigation; Black Vault

fee study; block scheduling; university BOV transparency (SPOILER: it’s not good)

GA convenes — and the many ways to follow it; votes and interviews

new bills; translation; not a privacy invasion; how the dollars were spent

not those IDAs/EDAs; privacy in aggregate numbers?; Booker T. Washington

defamation settled; tip-off; gag order; $17,000 public records fee

fighting a university; out of the high school; drive-through democracy

video of encounter; interviews in and out of closed session; four years is a very long time

search postponed; audit; the pandemic’s impact on transparency

Redbook; physical access to buildings; name confusion; unredacted autopsy reports

an ask and a video; back to online; records contradict

This Week in Virginia; anyone from second grade to 80 years old

university donations; amended minutes; slain journalist memorial

more to Bragg about; government domains; suicide, guns & FOIA

VCOG daily access news, 12/23/20: leave the meeting; BOS/school FOIA fight in Southampton; Traeger List

behind the cutbacks; essence of government; Mark Schlefer

talk to the wall; new dashboard; Google security; search≠new record

public housing minus the public; bad notice; no comment; protest or intimidation

mayor still allowed; planning decisions put off; forwarding email

walk out; editorial authors; in-person legislators