Kansas high school students worry their First Amendment rights could be violated under a new Senate bill, with many students saying they won’t be able to make their voices heard in school if protests are more regulated.
#SunshineWeek #ksleg
Every year, we celebrate National Sunshine Week to promote open and transparent government. Today, we’re kicking of #sunshineweek by sharing info about quorums under the Open Meetings Act ☀️
Stay tuned for tomorrow!
Happy National Freedom of Information Day. ☀️
On this day, we commemorate the birthday of James Madison, the father of the Constitution and a fundamental advocate for openness in government. #SunshineWeek
"Sunshine Week, March 15-21, 2026"
#SunshineWeek 🌞underscores a core democratic principle: the public has a right to know.
Transparent campaign finance, accessible lobbying disclosures, and enforceable open records laws strengthen accountability and public trust.
We believe transparency is fundamental to good governance.
The Oregon Capital Chronicle relies on public records requests for our reporting, but we’re often thwarted by high fees or slow responses.
This #SunshineWeek, could you chip in to help us keep Oregon's government accountable?
Celebrate #SunshineWeek 2026 with us. Here's a list of ways you can get involved: nefac.org/news/sunshin... #opengov
“Photograph of a clear award with the words National freedom of information act Hall of Fame 2026,” and the name of your your author, with the US Capitol in the background. Government transparency, from the outside. Congress is not subject to the freedom of information act, but it should be!
I just had a brief moment in the sun on a cloudy day. Freedom of information has made our union stronger. Public access to public records enable a public to be self-governing. Knowledge is power: use it!
foia.blogs.archives.gov/2026/03/11/o... #SunshineWeek #FOIA #SunshineFest
Journalists can't be watchdogs without a transparent government. Help us keep Louisiana government accountable. SUNSHINE WEEK OUR RIGHT TO KNOW
The Louisiana Illuminator relies on public records requests for our reporting, but we’re often thwarted by high fees or slow responses. This #SunshineWeek, could you chip in to help us keep Louisiana’s government accountable? lailluminator.com/donate/
📃 The public's right to access and read government records is essential to a transparent, resilient democracy.
Learn more: sunshineweek.org
#FOIA #RightToKnow #SunshineWeek
In 1966, the Freedom of Information Act was adopted, granting citizens the right to request records from any U.S. federal agency. In the spirit of this transparency, we're proud to celebrate #SunshineWeek here at Government Accountability Project! 🌞
This #SunshineWeek, a reminder that MAGA House Speaker Matt Hall is refusing to move bipartisan legislation opening up the Legislature and Governor's office to the Freedom of Information Act. #mileg #resist
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#NowKalamazoo #Kalamazoo #SunshineWeek
Just in time for #SunshineWeek, a major new investigation bringing the truth to light:
A declassified report from 2021 shows the NSA broke key rules limiting the government's ability to conduct warrantless searches of Americans’ electronic communications.
Our newsroom relies on public records requests for our reporting, but we’re often thwarted by high fees or slow responses.
This #SunshineWeek, could you chip in to help us keep government at all levels across the commonwealth accountable?
Today is the first day of #SunshineWeek, a week that celebrates & promotes access to information and open government nationwide.
For #SunshineWeek, the National Security Archive’s Annual FOIA Audit found that federal agencies’ use of “clarification of scope” letters undermines the rights of FOIA requesters. Read our investigation here:
nsarchive.gwu.edu/foia-audit/f...
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This is one more reason #SunshineWeek is valuable: It’s an opportunity to call attention to the importance of transparency tools like #FOIA — and to urge government agencies to do everything in their power to ensure that the people can hold our leaders accountable.
Today is the first day of #SunshineWeek, a week that celebrates & promotes access to information and open government nationwide.
To kick things off, we’ll explain exactly what the Freedom of Information Act is and why it’s such a powerful tool.
The #BRITEAct is the strongest transparency and ethics reform proposed in Michigan in decades. But for all their talk about transparency, House Republicans have yet to join @MIHouseDems in taking action. Michiganders deserve more from their leaders this #SunshineWeek and beyond. #mileg
Happy #SunshineWeek! Sunshine takes many forms. One of them is the system of records notice (SORN)—a dry but powerful set of disclosures that federal agencies must publish before establishing or modifying a system of personal data. They're required by the Privacy Act of 1974. A thread:
People are requesting more government records. Why are they getting less?
New from @annalecta.bsky.social for #SunshineWeek.
NEW: The Northwestern DA’s Office spent thousands on a failed legal fight to hide the names of cops who had been charged with crimes—even though prosecutors had published some of the names and case details in online press releases and other self-laudatory documents.
#Massachusetts #SunshineWeek
In honor of #SunshineWeek, I want to share this piece I wrote for @muckrock.com last year. It's an ode to nonfiction books that draw on #FOIA docs. And it's a -- brief -- account of the integral role that #FOIA docs played in my book.
Commentary: Democrats in the Colorado Legislature have taken steps every year to erode transparency around what they do. Voters this year might have a chance to push back and declare for themselves a "fundamental right to know."
#SunshineWeek #OpenGovernment #FOIA
It’s #SunshineWeek! @MiHouseDems remain committed to an open and transparent government — and our track record proves it. The BRITE Act is a critical step to strengthen ethics laws and hold public officials accountable.
“Public records access is access for all”— Amalie Nash @knightfoundation.org
#FOIA #sunshinefest #sunshineweek #opengov
South Dakota Searchlight relies on public records requests for our reporting, but we’re often thwarted by high fees or slow responses.
This #SunshineWeek, could you chip in to help us keep South Dakota’s government accountable?
Every day this #SunshineWeek, I'll post at least one thing @pogo.org & I have done over the last year to advance government transparency.
We're part of an ecosystem of journalists, civil society groups, attorneys, activists & others pushing for more sunlight
“It’s not a big ask for such a well-funded agency to simply follow the law,” Quemere said, pointing to the State Police’s half a billion dollar budget. “Especially when they claim their role is law enforcement, at the minimum we should expect law enforcement to follow the law.” … As a journalist, police records access is an issue in his work, but he thinks the alarm should go beyond the media industry. “I think the wider public needs to be concerned about it,” he said. To him, the State Police’s lack of compliance “speaks to the ideology and culture of police in this country – that they don’t see themselves as accountable to the public or the law even.”
Here's what I told the Springfield Republican about the constant refusal of the #Massachusetts State Police to even respond to public records requests.
#mapoli #SunshineWeek
