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🚨 Tribune-Star: Bill amendment would ‘gut’ public access counselor’s ability to issue advisory opinions 🚨

Sue Loughlin, March 1st 2024 An amendment made to a bill in the waning days of the Indiana General Assembly session would severely restrict the public access counselor’s role in issuing opinions, and it would eliminate the counselor’s four-year term. The amendment was approved 5-3 by a Senate...

🚨 Indy Star: Lawmaker said HEPL open door opinion shows overreach of public records official 🚨

Brittany Carloni and Kayla Dwyer, Indianapolis Star, 2024-03-01 🚨 This article is about an active amendment on HB 1338, which has grave consequences for how the office of the Public Access Counselor can function. Please contact your legislator in both the House and the Senate to express your...

🚨 State Affairs: Republican push would strictly limit public access counselor’s review authority 🚨

Tom Davies. February 29th, 2024 The scope of what Indiana’s public access counselor could consider in reviewing open government matters would be strictly limited under provisions added to legislation in the closing days of the legislative session. Amendments that a Senate committee made this week...

WRTV Indianapolis: School board member aims to boost transparency after filing her own complaint

Kenney, Kara. 2023. School board member aims to boost transparency after filing her own complaint. WRTV. June 16, 2023. A West Lafayette mother and school board member is aiming to improve transparency and the public’s access to information. Click on the image to play the video.

IndyStar: Neighbors’ relief turns to anger as bar is OK’d: El Chila’s license was denied, then extended

Cook, Tony. 2023. Neighbors' relief turns to anger as bar is OK'd: El chila's license was denied, then extended. Indianapolis Star, Apr 09, 2023. Last month, the Indiana Alcohol & Tobacco Commission used a new policy intended to crack down on problem bars to deny a liquor license extension to...

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IGA 2021 Session

IGA 2021 Session

The 2021 Indiana General Assembly session starts tomorrow, January 4th. What bills are you watching? Let us know. We'll do the same. You can check the current listing of bills available on the IGA web site: http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/ We will be hosting...

COVID-19 Data, References, Resources

COVID-19 Data, References, Resources

With all of the questions surrounding the current pandemic, Public Data is critical in helping shed light on the observations of the world. The Indiana Coalition for Open Government is asking the community to help share what their local governments are doing or not...

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Sunshine Week 2024: March 10th – 16th

Sunshine Week 2024: March 10th – 16th

Good day everyone! We are working on some virtual events for Sunshine Week 2024 (March 10th - 16th). One, in particular, will be to help populate our Indiana Data Tracker website with public datasets from across the Hoosier State. You can subscribe to our Substack,...