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, 6/4/2024
one-time or multiple bribes; drug testing; 5-hour meeting; NY FOI win
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Transparency News, 6/3/2024
settlement, but no report; $30K to sue a parent; development donations
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Transparency News, 5/31/2024
FOIA Friday; online archive; no disclosure of disclosure info; why the closed?
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Transparency News, 5/30/2024
sentencing; the matrix on hold; filming police; nothing more than a nuisance
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Transparency News, 5/29/2024
FOIA Council wrap; school board upheavals; agendas; marriage licenses
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Transparency News, 5/28/2024
FOIA Council meeting; “private” meeting; a lawsuit over police data
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Transparency News, 5/23/2024
walking back the offer; last-minute action item; private email
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Transparency News, 5/22/2024
introducing our new car magnet; tons of travel; retaliatory rules
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Transparency News, 5/21/2024
purchase card problems; unpermitted events; a governor’s travels
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Transparency News, 5/20/2024
men in black; hypothermia; Prince William IT; Iowa veto; $50,493.50
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Transparency News, 5/17/2024
FOIA Friday; water treatment woes; political meetings; no more legal support
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Transparency News, 5/16/2024
Dogwood Dell files; abrupt ending; was meeting propoer?; losing your seat
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Transparency News, 5/15/2024
skirting procurement *and* FOIA; hot mics; shield the work & the IDs
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Transparency News, 5/14/2024
training (or lack thereof); no responsive documents; EEO-1s
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Transparency News, 5/13/2024
edited documents; Key Bridge footage; legislatures rolling it up
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Transparency News, 5/10/2024
FOIA Friday; drone documentation?; minutes; cast ballots
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Transparency News, 5/9/2024
retreat notice; the check, if not the agreement; case dismissed
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Transparency News, 5/7/2024
whose working papers?; consultants’ cost; “you’re going to need to FOIA that”
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Transparency News, 5/6/2024
lawsuit to get UVA report; 9 p.m. on a Saturday; thematic meetings
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Transparency News, 5/3/2024
amicus brief; FOIA Friday; $1; protective orders & FOIA
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Transparency News, 5/2/2024
the amazing caper; chair resignation; suing to claw back records
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Transparency News, 5/1/2024
threat of suit, threat of response; “who’s behind” the lawsuit
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Transparency News, 4/30/2024
dueling narratives; out of compliance; “no TOWN funds”; some notice
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Transparency News, 4/29/2024
new whistleblowers and motions to dismiss; not board action; “correct”
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Transparency News, 4/26/2024
FOIA Friday; the Petersburg letter and the surprise vote; best practices