OpenTheGovernment.org and CREW Release Analysis of Effect of Obama FOIA Policy
An analysis released in late December by CREW and OpenTheGovernment.org of data collected by the government on Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) processing reveals challenges the Obama Administration...
View ArticleNARA Survey Shows Continued Govt-wide Records Mis-Management
The May 1 release of an annual report by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), based on surveys agencies filled out about their record keeping practices, shows how much more work...
View ArticleWhy Did Rodriguez Get Away with Destroying the Torture Tapes – and What...
Yesterday, Andrew Sullivan asked in his column in the Daily Beast, “Why Did Rodriguez Destroy The Torture Tapes?” It was good to see someone call out that aspect of Rodriguez’s – and the CIA’s –...
View ArticleNARA Report Shows Continued Govt-wide Records Mis-Management
The May 1 release of a report by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), based on surveys agencies filled out about their record keeping practices, shows how much more work needs to be...
View ArticleGroups Protest Labor's Removal of Child Labor Rulemaking Records
Last week OpenTheGovernment.org and several of our partners and allies joined the Sunlight Foundation in asking the Department of Labor to re-post documents online relating to recently-withdrawn...
View ArticleNew Step Toward Making Sure the Government Can Find and Share E-Records
On Friday, August 24, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) belatedly issued the Managing Government Records Directive. The Directive...
View ArticleGet Involved: 10 Open Government Questions for 2012
There are a lot of distractions during election season. There are more and more gotcha ads, and increasingly less discussion about what really matters. At OpenTheGovernment.org, POGO, the American...
View ArticlePartners Push for Preservation of Archives
The Society of American Archivists (SAA) and OpenTheGovernment.org joined the National Coalition for History to urge the governor of Georgia to keep the state archives open. The Georgia Archives are...
View Article5 Issues Congress Should Seriously Consider
As the public begins to decide who should represent them in the halls of Congress during the next session, we thought it would be a good time to begin thinking about what issues the 113th Congress...
View Article12 Days of Open Government Resolutions - Day 12: Set Interim Steps and...
Each post in the series of posts we plan to publish between now and December 25 focuses on a resolution the Obama Administration realistically can use to make the federal government more open and...
View Article12 Days of Open Government Resolutions
Resolution 1: Begin gathering public input for Version 2 of the US National Action PlanResolution 2: Make it easier for the public to track agencies’ open government workResolution 3: Encourage...
View ArticleWhat to Watch: Sunshine Legislation
Sunshine Week has grown from a day of freedom of information commemoration to a week-long celebration of government openness, and the public’s right-to-know. The Congress and agencies have also gotten...
View ArticleStill No One Held Accountable for CIA's Destruction of Torture Records
Recent news that one of the two CIA employees who authorized the destruction of tapes showing the torture of CIA detainees – despite a court order to preserve them – has been placed in charge of the...
View ArticleA 100 Day Agenda for Open Government?
In February our Executive Director took to the pages of The Hill to challenge President Obama to recommit to creating an "unprecedented level of openness in Government" during his second term. She...
View ArticlePreserving Records
A well maintained electronic record keeping system is critical for making government more open and accountable: it allows information from across the government to be understood in context and makes...
View ArticleLatest Records Management Self Assessments Show Minimal Change
The latest summary of agencies' records management self-assessments by National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) shows that despite some improvement in agencies' practices and policies since...
View ArticleHouse Passes Presidential and Federal Records Act Amendments of 2014
On January 14th, the House of Representatives unanimously passed the key amendments to the Presidential Records Act and Federal Records Act. The legislation (H.R.read more
View ArticleCREW Calls for Congressional Investigation of Federal Record-Keeping
Deficient record keeping laws are an impediment to congressional oversight, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) said in a letter to Congress last week.read more
View ArticlePresidential Federal Records Act Amendments Pass Senate
The Presidential and Federal Records Act Amendments of 2014 sailed through the Senate on September 10th, passing by unanimous consent. The bill underwent some changes since its unanimous passage in the...
View ArticleGroups to National Archives: Don’t Let the CIA Destroy Its Emails
OpenTheGovernment.org and 16 other open government, civil liberties and human rights groups have asked the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to reject a CIA request for increased...
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