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As access advocates around the nation come together to celebrate national Sunshine Week, a new survey reports that three-quarters of American adults view the federal government as secretive, and nearly nine in 10 say it’s...

Some federal agencies are running more than 15 years late on fulfilling Freedom of Information Act requests, according to a post in The Hill newspaper. The report from Kevin Bogardus comes after the enactment of much-celebrated...

ICOG is one of 31 signatories to a letter urging the Smithsonian Institution to rescind a directive listing numerous categories of records the agency will not release to the public. You can read the full text of the letter and...

The Indiana Coalition for Open Government’s survey of users of the Public Access Counselor’s office garnered a lot of attention in the media, from access advocates around the nation, and in policy circles. Newspapers...

By Gary W. Moody, Franklin, Indiana Good government requires ethics, accountability, and transparency. Laws requiring these practices must be in place, they must be enforceable, and society must be ruled by the law. Without the...