Sunshine Week, March 18, 2011
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FOIAchat was a weekly conference on Twitter that occurred between 2010 and 2013 from 2 PM to 3 PM EST under the hashtag #foiachat. The discussion invited collaboration between activists, citizens, bloggers, and journalists on public records requests topics. Topics included the Freedom of Information Act and state equivalents, open meetings laws, and related issues.[1]
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During this FOIAchat, 13 contributors participated. To review this FOIAchat on Twitter, click here.
Links
- Sunny Awards recognize state, local governments with perfect transparency scores
- Los Angeles Times - Keep your government open and honest -- share public documents with The Times
- Society of Professional Journalists - SPJ gives Utah national “Black Hole Award” for egregious anti-transparency law
- Electronic Frontier Foundation - Do Open Government Laws Still Matter in the Era of WikiLeaks?
- New York Times - Judge’s Order Blocks Law on Unions in Wisconsin
Footnotes
- ↑ This article is one of approximately 120 on Ballotpedia about FOIAchats. These articles are among 37,000 created by the nonprofit Sunshine Review, which Ballotpedia acquired in July 2013.
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