#sunshineweek — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #sunshineweek, aggregated by home.social.
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"As a C.D.C. employee, you get annual trainings on FOIA & record keeping. All of a sudden it was like a complete withdrawal of that. It was really frightening & eerie." www.nytimes.com/interactive/... That's "authoritarian blindness," but @[email protected] won't call it that, yet. #OpenGov #SunshineWeek
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We've nearly reached the end of #SunshineWeek, ☀️ an annual celebration of some of our favorite things here at EPIC: public records, open government, and freedom of information. (1/7)
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All levels of government are cracking down on press freedoms — and in turn, your right to know what’s going on in your government.
Join the fight for transparency by supporting independent media this #SunshineWeek.
Donate now: https://giving.coloradosun.com/page/sunshine-week-2026
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#FOIA works best when agencies prioritize the public’s interest and proactively disclose public records as structured data online.
Support government transparency & participate in #SunshineWeek 2026.
Learn more: sunshineweek.org
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With closed doors, high fees, slow responses and increasing exemptions, all levels of government have increasingly stomped down on the public's access to information.
Support independent media during #SunshineWeek as we fight for greater accountability.
Donate now: https://giving.coloradosun.com/page/sunshine-week-2026
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Responses to Freedom of Information Act requests are often thwarted by high fees, slow responses or exemptions by local, state, and federal agencies.
During #SunshineWeek, call on your government to uphold our right to know!
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The #Foilies2026
Established in 2015, The #Foilies are an annual project by the #ElectronicFrontierFoundation & #MuckRock to recognize the agencies, officials & contractors that thwart the public's #right to know. We give out these tongue-in-cheek "awards" during #SunshineWeek (March 15-21), a collective effort by media & advocacy organizations to highlight the importance of open government.
This year, we've got a few "winners" whose behavior defies belief.
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A Signal Truth: Any posts that conduct public business are public records that must be archived.
https://civic-texts.ghost.io/a-signal-truth-posts-that-conduct-public-business-are-public-records-2/
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ICYMI - ‘City Council violated (the open meetings law) by improperly convening and taking a ‘position … or formal action’ in deciding to end Jurinsky’s censure proceedings…’
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I picked up a great souvenir at #SunshineFest this #SunshineWeek. It goes well with an artifact from the Sunlight Foundation (RIP). “Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.”-Brandeis
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#SunshineWeek has been every week for us for over 30 years! 🌞 Read our timeline to learn about key open government events and some of EPIC’s #OpenGovernment milestones.
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EDITORIAL: Quit thwarting transparency in Colorado by legislating open record barriers
Providing access to public records and meetings is ‘real’ work, and history has repeatedly shown that ‘real’ bad things happen when the laws are weakened or violated.
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EDITORIAL: Quit thwarting transparency in Colorado by legislating open record barriers
Providing access to public records and meetings is ‘real’ work, and history has repeatedly shown that ‘real’ bad things happen when the laws are weakened or violated.
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Our #SunshineWeek conversation on AI & FOIA is streaming live https://www.youtube.com/live/qnd3H6sN_Uc #SunshineFest
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ROBERTS: More Colorado shadows than light during Sunshine Week in 2025
'The voters of Colorado initiated the Sunshine Act of 1972, but the legislature is free to amend it. It’s not in the Colorado Constitution. Should it be?'
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ROBERTS: More Colorado shadows than light during Sunshine Week in 2025
'The voters of Colorado initiated the Sunshine Act of 1972, but the legislature is free to amend it. It’s not in the Colorado Constitution. Should it be?'
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Colorado Supreme Court to hear arguments in Aurora City Council breach of open meetings law
‘City Council violated (the open meetings law) by improperly convening and taking a ‘position … or formal action’ in deciding to end Jurinsky’s censure proceedings…’
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Colorado Supreme Court to hear arguments in Aurora City Council breach of open meetings law
‘City Council violated (the open meetings law) by improperly convening and taking a ‘position … or formal action’ in deciding to end Jurinsky’s censure proceedings…’
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One of the most powerful tools to fight back against bad governance is public ridicule. Here's this year's "winners" of the Foilies. #SunshineWeek https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2025/mar/16/the-foilies-2025/
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Great idea for #SunshineWeek and the rest of the year, too! It would be awesome if journalism based on records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act also always published documents or data, especially when governments take down websites & original sources. https://freedom.press/issues/wired-is-dropping-paywalls-for-foia-based-reporting-others-should-follow/
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Lawmakers have considered over 300+ bills covering campaign finance issues across 45 states plus Guam this year. The vast majority are in committee, their futures uncertain. A handful of bills have passed in Utah, Virginia, South Dakota and Arkansas. #SunshineWeek https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2025/03/campaign-finance-proposals-face-long-odds-this-year-with-a-few-exceptions/
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The Foilies, our annual #SunshineWeek report on government (lack of) transparency, is on newsstands! In California, pick up the Monterey County Weekly in Monterey County and North Coast Journal in Humboldt County. The Charleston City Paper in Charleston, SC also has it on the cover!
More to come next week.
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EDITORIAL: Quit thwarting transparency in Colorado by legislating open record barriers
"Providing access to public records and meetings is ‘real’ work, and history has repeatedly shown that ‘real’ bad things happen when the laws are weakened or violated"
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EDITORIAL: Quit thwarting transparency in Colorado by legislating open record barriers
"Providing access to public records and meetings is ‘real’ work, and history has repeatedly shown that ‘real’ bad things happen when the laws are weakened or violated"
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Over on Threads, AOTUS Colleen Shogan responded to my open question about the use of AI at NARA. I circled back, memorialized the thread, & added key context from #SunshineWeek & POTUS’ executive order on AI: https://civic-texts.ghost.io/what-the-aotus-told-me-about-how-the-national-archives-is-using-ai/
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Want to help plan #SunshineWeek? The Brechner Center at University of Florida is hiring a #FOIA Outreach Coordinator https://explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/532465/ops-outreach-coordinator-for-the-brechner-center $60-70k salary plus benefits