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New Beta Version of Indiana General Assembly Website
The Indiana General Assembly website is receiving an update in 2023: We have some improvements in the works that we're excited for you to experience. Click here to try our new, faster beta site. We will be maintaining our current version of the site until the middle...
IndyStar: Hoosiers fear losing benefits, rights: A woman sued to save her Medicaid. HHC agency wants to bar such cases.
Magdaleno, Johnny, and Tony Cook. 2022. Hoosiers fear losing benefits, rights: A woman sued to save her medicaid. HHC agency wants to bar such cases. Indianapolis Star, Nov 04, 2022. (accessed January 9, 2023). Indiana and other states often try to cut or deny...
IndyStar sues 8 hospitals for records violations: Claim: Public spending on nursing homes obscured
Magdaleno, Johnny. 2022. IndyStar sues 8 hospitals for records violations: Claim: Public spending on nursing homes obscured. Indianapolis Star, Aug 10, 2022. (accessed August 11, 2022). Eight Indiana hospitals are violating state records laws by withholding...
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Opening Indiana’s Government: 2016 Governor’s Candidate Survey
In keeping with a tradition started in 2004, the Indiana Coalition for Open Government asked the three gubernatorial candidates this year to share their visions of government transparency via a brief survey about public access issues. The candidates, Libertarian Rex...
Problems and opportunities: Electronic access in Indiana
As part of an observance of the Indiana Coalition for Open Government's 20th year of advocating for public access, ICOG joined with its administrative partner, The Media School at Indiana University, to put together this report on the status of digital access at the...
Digital access less than ideal in Indiana
By Craig Lyons, Samim Arif and DeJuan Foster Want to contact the county sheriff’s office and find out what’s happening in your community? Are you curious if your local health department has received any food-borne illness complaints? Would you like to know what kind...
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Cincinnati Enquirer: Investigation – How campaign cash flowed to Cranley from Liberty and Elm project team
Horn, Dan, and Sharon Coolidge. 2021. Project opens window on role of campaign contributions: Mayor got most donations on liberty & elm development. Cincinnati Enquirer, Mar 24, 2021. (accessed March 24, 2021). While working on the Freeport Row project in...
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...
Dakota Free Press: Noem Attacks Fellow Republican for Sponsoring Open Records Legislation
Cory, Allen Heidelberger. 2021. Noem attacks fellow republican for sponsoring open records legislation. Dakota Free Press [BLOG] (Jan 29), (accessed January 30, 2021). But knowing they will lose any policy debate over the Governor’s activities, Team Noem turns...