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In this important election year, the Society of Professional Journalists (an ICOG affiliate) is promoting a special “Sunshine Campaign” that seeks to identify to the biggest problems in getting access to public...

FYI– We are running a short survey to try and find the best open government questions to put to candidates this year and we need help.  Elections are the time when politicians pay the most attention to people and issues,...

Politically, Rep. Mark Souder, R-IN, and Rep. Dan Burton, R-IN, have little in common with freshman Rep. Brad Ellsworth, D-IN. But the three shared honors in the Congressional Management Foundation’s review of the best Web...

ICOG has signed on to an effort spearheaded by affiliate OpenTheGovernment.org to overturn the Bush administration’s 2001 executive order allowing the withholding of presidential records. Thirty other organizations also...

A Federal FOIA Tip on “Secured Files”   Here’s a handy tip for people using the federal Freedom of Information Act and encountering “secured” PDF files (called RODs and FEIS), which prevent copying of the content.  ...