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Sunshine Week keeps shining
- By: ASNE staff
- On: 03/19/2014 10:45:23
- In: Sunshine Week
Happy Sunshine Week to everyone! With the sunny start Sunday, Sunshine Week 2014 has been getting a lot of spotlight from many organizations, including the news media, and on social media, of course. Remember, this weeklong event continues until Saturday, March 22. Let's keep up the good work in celebrating the positive impact of open government and access to public information!
Happy Sunshine Week to everyone! With the sunny start Sunday, Sunshine Week 2014 has been getting a lot of spotlight from many organizations, including the news media, and on social media, of course. Remember, this weeklong event continues until Saturday, March 22. Let's keep up the good work in celebrating the positive impact of open government and access to public information!
Many thanks to hundreds of participants who have been filling up our inbox with links to their reports and articles on Sunshine Week. Click here for the growing list of participants, and from there, be sure to click on the links to see what each participant has done to promote and support Sunshine Week 2014.
Here are just four examples of written pieces related to Sunshine Week from the past two days. Thanks for participating, and keep sending us links or PDFs of your Sunshine Week products to be included on our list.
- Sunshine Week call to action (Visalia Times-Delta)
- Sunshine Week: A call to citizens to hold governments accountable
(The Denver Post) - US censors, denies access to gov't records more than ever under Freedom of Information Act (Minneapolis Star Tribune)
- 'Sunshine Week' reports show transparency complaints still dog Obama administration (The Washington Post)
The events calendar is also growing daily. Don't miss out on the opportunity to attend all kinds of events planned for this week around the country. Here's what's happening just on Thursday, March 20:
- Threats to Transparency: Problems with Money in Politics
- Sunshine Week Seminar
- Civil Liberties Dead Zone: Do First and Fourth Amendment Rights Not Apply at the Border?
- Open Government Forum
- James Madison Freedom of Information Awards
- Pre-release screening: "The Unknown Known"
- Examining the Road Forward after Five Years of Work
- Managing Public Records Requests
Sunshine Week 2014 is made possible by an endowment from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and by generous donations from Bloomberg and the Gridiron Club and Foundation.
All groups and individuals are welcome to participate and use the resources provided on the Sunshine Week website to mark their open-government efforts. Feel free to use editorial cartoons, opinion columns and other resources in the "Toolkit" section.
Launched in 2005 and partnered with the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press in 2012, Sunshine Week is a national initiative to promote a dialogue about the importance of open government and freedom of information.
To stay up to date, follow us on Twitter at @SunshineWeek and on our Facebook page. Visit sunshineweek.org for more information, and contact us at sunshineweek@asne.org.