coalition partner news

Truth-Telling Celebrated at the Ridenhour Prizes

The Ridenhour Prizes, created in the name of investigative journalist Ron Ridenhour, honored individuals at a ceremony hosted by OTG partners and openness colleagues.

04/30/2013

Groups Carry on Fight Against Secret Law

OpenTheGovernment.org and several of our partners recently joined the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) on an amicus brief in support of The New York Times' suit challenging the government's decision to deny access to Department of Justice's Of

04/30/2013

Calls for Transparency for Presidential Library Fundraising

As the George W. Bush Presidential library opened last week, groups dedicated to transparency called for light to be shone on the private fundraising done to create such libraries.

04/30/2013

Openness Groups Call for Classification Reform Leadership

Thirty groups, including OpenTheGovernment.org, joined the Brennan Center for Justice in a letter calling for the White House to take the lead in security classification reform. The openness organizations called for the prompt establishment of a steering committee including White House Leadership to address overclassification.

04/30/2013

Partners Support Funding for Records Preservation

The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) and Special Libraries Association (SLA) submitted written testimony to the House committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Legislative Branch in support of appropriations for the Government Printing Office and Library of Congress.

04/16/2013

Partners' Dig In on the President's 2014 Budget

National Priorities Project

04/16/2013

Groups Support Bill to Make Agency Reports Accessible

More than 20 partners and other allies joined OpenTheGovernment.org in endorsing HR 1380, the Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports Act, a bill that would make the thousands of reports federal agencies are required to submit to Congress each year easily available.

04/02/2013

Groups File Brief Fighting Secret Law

OpenTheGovernment.org and several other partners joined Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) in a brief supporting the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s fight against the Department of Justice’s insistence that OLC Opinions must be kept secret under FOIA. In EFF v. the United States Department of Justice, EFF challenges the withholding of OLC opinions and partial reliance on Exemption 5 and its protection for material that falls within the deliberative process and attorney client privileges.

04/02/2013

Important Win by CREW on FOIA Processing

Our friends at Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) won a major victory today in their ongoing case against the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) that will help maintain what the ruling refers to as the "comprehensive scheme" in the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) that "encourages prompt request-processing and agency accountability.&qu

04/02/2013

US PIRG Takes an In-Depth Look at State Spending Transparency

All fifty states now provide some level of checkbook-level spending information online, according to a report by the US PIRG. Just four years ago, only 32 states provided information at this level. Forty eight states’ spending information is searchable—Vermont and California lag behind. Read the education fund’s annual survey of state transparency websites for even more insight into the changing faces of state spending transparency.

04/02/2013