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Sunshine Week
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Sunshine Week is an annual event sponsored by the News Leaders Association and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Its purpose is to educate the public about the importance of open government.[1]
Origin
Sunshine Week started in Florida in 2002 when the press and the public mobilized to defeat state legislators’ attempts to create hundreds of exemptions from the state’s public records laws.[2]
Sunshine Week 2009
In 2009, Sunshine Week was March 15-21. The '09 focus is to "develop a snapshot of public records that states make available on their Web sites." This dovetails nicely with the website evaluations produced here on Sunshine Review.
The timing of the week is set to coincide with the birthday of James Madison.
External links
- Sunshine Week website
Footnotes
