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Who most often goes to the Public Access Counselor to ask whether the public is entitled to see a government document or attend a meeting of a public body? Who is the subject of most complaints about access to public...

The annual secrecy report by Open the Government is out, and it reveals a continuing trend toward increasing government secrecy at the federal level. But there are some positive developments as well. Check out the full report...

Five years ago, the Indiana Coalition for Open Government joined a broad-based array of citizen and media organizations to create the Indiana Debate Commission. It was an ambitious project with the idea of establishing a more...

After all the debates, commercials and campaign appearances, voters might think they know everything about the candidates for governor this year. But there’s one thing that hasn’t been discussed much: open government. For voters...

ICOG is always looking for opportunities to spread the word about the need for easy access to government information.

To mark this year’s observance of Sunshine Week, the Indiana Coalition for Open Government has joined with Public Access Counselor Joe Hoage to host two informational meetings about Indiana’s access laws. Hoage will...

The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication has sparked a fascinating dust-up with a strong statement criticizing the Obama administration’s degree of transparency. AEJMC became the latest of a...

The Journal Gazette of Fort Wayne devoted a healthy amount of ink to Sunshine Week 2010 with a package of stories exploring access issues in Indiana. ICOG officers, incidentally, did a fair bit of talking to reporters from the...

More than two dozen civic activists, students and professional journalists attended a Citizen Journalism Boot Camp at IUPUI on March 20. The daylong training program, ICOG’s way of marking the annual national observance of...

A bill that would have authorized judges to fine willful, intentional violators of Indiana’s open-government laws has died in the state Legislature for the second consecutive year. The reason this time: The law would have...

The Citizen Journalism Boot Camp program has a full day of workshops to help you improve as a citizen journalist or to get started as one. 8:30-9 a.m. – Registration and coffee. 9-10 a.m. – Members of The Indianapolis Star’s...