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Presented as a live stream as part of HOPE 2020 Conference Freddy Martinez is a technologist and expert on surveillance. He was previously a Ford-Mozilla open web fellow at Freedom of Read Full
August 25, 2020
In this session, experts discuss what policies, records and other information are useful in understanding conduct—and misconduct—within state and local law enforcement. Presenters will explain how to obtain that information Read Full
The Accountability 2021 Steering Committee guides the work of a larger coalition that is coalescing around and advocating for executive actions addressing open government; ethics; responsive government; truth-seekers and whistleblowers; Read Full
July 14, 2020
News from Congressman Mike Quigley: legislation would authorize video and teleconferencing of judicial proceedings during the COVID-19 emergency period Read Full
April 28, 2020
Open The Government led a sign-on letter initiative calling on Congress to include strong transparency and accountability provisions in the next legislative response to the COVID-19 pandemic. While the CARES Read Full
April 22, 2020
Open The Government, in collaboration with MuckRock, uncovered that a secretive company, Clearview AI, was scraping billions of publicly available photos from social media accounts and selling them to law Read Full
March 2, 2020
OTG’s Lisa Rosenberg will moderate an Open Government State of the Union in honor of Sunshine Week, the nation-wide celebration of access to public information that takes place every year around President James Read Full
February 29, 2020
From the launch of the investigation into the Central Intelligence Agency’s detention and interrogation program in 2009 to present day, click through time in OTG’s new behind-the-scenes summary of the Read Full
November 8, 2019
Across the country, facial recognition technology is being quietly acquired and used by government agencies of all sizes. More than half of all adults in the United States are in Read Full
November 6, 2019
Open The Government and the ACLU co-hosted a briefing at the Russell Senate Office Building to discuss the lack of accountability surrounding private prisons, jails, and detention centers that house Read Full
November 4, 2019
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