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, 9/21/20
bill to the FOIA Council; no numbers districtwide?; let’s go the email, Bob
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Transparency News, 9/17/20
meeting overflow; vendor relationship; take comment; Constitution Day
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Transparency News, 9/16/20
no school outbreak data; withheld records part of public case; no-cost appeal?
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Transparency News, 9/15/20
refusal to participate; agency/program audits; Marsy’s law
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Transparency News, 9/14/20
JMU meeting; ransomware; altered agenda; re-traumatized by secrecy
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Transparency News, 9/11/20
VCOG daily access news, 9/11/20: attorney fees; banned from speaking; residents only; defying the order
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Transparency News, 9/10/20
datathon; private eye; expungement bill; facial recognition
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Transparency News, 9/9/20
unable to vote; conducting business on a personal phone
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Transparency News, 9/8/20
criminal investigative files; expungement; loophole
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Transparency News, 9/3/20
digital counties; immigration records; legislative priorities
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Transparency News, 9/2/20
joint commission on virtual conduct; designated remote locations; emotional trainwrecks
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Transparency News, 8/31/20
nursing home numbers yes, poultry plant numbers no, church numbers kinda
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Transparency News, 8/28/20
public votes; video disclosure bill; not personally identifiable
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Transparency News, 8/27/20
are superintendent’s twitter DMs personal records?; a thread; a backwater
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Transparency News, 8/26/20
no-bid contracts; student privacy; is data helpful?; biz influence
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Transparency News, 8/25/20
investigative records, Parole Board; sorry, students; hacktivists
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Transparency News, 8/24/20
special session bill; student info & the census; emails undo a manager
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Transparency News, 8/21/20
investigative files; comments without a draft?; $110K oral report
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Transparency News, 8/20/20
virtual session; nursing home disclosures; FERPA inapplicable?
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Transparency News, 8/19/20
the session: virtual House work, in-person Senate
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Transparency News, 8/18/20
special session; shell corporation; demographic data; FERPA fallacy
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Transparency News, 8/17/20
the story in the records; appeal of decision; half-dozen recusals
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Transparency News, 8/14/20
opaque foundations; still certified; online in perpetuity; prioritize fixing FOIA
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Transparency News, 8/12/20
attorney fees; request filled; oversight
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Transparency News, 8/11/20
parole board votes; recorded work sessions; it’s been two months..