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Shelbyville Indiana Launches New Website, with Transparency Tools
The City of Shelbyville has launched a new website (based on CivicPlus) which includes new sections to help with transparency. The main tool, that we have seen, is the new Agenda and Minutes system, a standard with CivicPlus sites. And with the new streaming mandates...
The Indiana Capital Chronicle: Indiana public access office goes quiet amid turnover
Leslie Bonilla Muñiz. 2025-05-30. Indiana Capital Chronicle. Tippecanoe County resident Pamela Frazee just wants to know if her messages went through. Phone calls to Indiana’s Office of the Public Access Counselor (PAC) route directly to a voicemail box and aren’t...
Meet Indiana’s New Public Access Counselor, Jennifer Ruby
RELEASE: Governor Braun Appoints Jennifer Ruby as Indiana’s Public Access Counselor to Ensure Government Transparency and Accountability for Hoosiers INDIANAPOLIS – Governor Mike Braun today announced the appointment of Jennifer Ruby as Indiana’s Public Access...
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Subscribe to ICOG’s substack newsletter, Open Doors
The Indiana Coalition for Open Government has started a substack newsletter, Open Doors. We release an issue about once a month and it covers news, data, and tips for making public records requests. Want to read? You can subscribe below. Want to write? Get in touch....
Supporting: Letter to Biden White House on open government
What other questions would you like to see answered by the Biden administration and their positions regarding open government? Thanks to work of Governing.Digital, we have an initial set of 25 questions included in a Letter to the White House. The core questions from...
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...
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2023 National FOI Summit, Save the Date: October 3rd-5th
Save the date for the 2023 FOI Summit! The National FOI Summit returns this October, bringing together journalists, attorneys, government transparency advocates and others focused on state open records laws. The Summit, to be held online using the Whova...
Better Government Association Statement: Supreme Court FOIA Ruling (Chapman v. Chicago) Limits Transparency; Significantly Broadens Exemptions to FOIA
A unanimous Illinois Supreme Court ruling yesterday in a case called Chapman v. Chicago reverses a lower court’s ruling and blocks plaintiff Matt Chapman’s open records request for information from the City of Chicago’s Department of Finance. The court’s ruling...
National Archives databases made more accessible
From the Brechner Center for Freedom of Information September 7th, 2022 newsletter: The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is making its Digital Preservation Framework available as a Linked Open Dataset, a first for the agency.Aimed at sharing NARA’s...