The White House launched a new website Thursday (March 8, 2012) – ethics.gov. The new website seeks to promote government transparency as well as fulfill a campaign promise for President Obama to “create a centralized Internet database of lobbying reports, ethics records, and campaign finance filings in a searchable, sortable,
The Virginia General Assembly has passed a bill that could prevent FOIA requestors from learning the identities of people who communicate with policymakers. The new exemption allows the names and contact information of anyone engaged in correspondence with a member of the governing body to be concealed, unless the correspondence relates
In March University of Wisconsin Professor William Cronon posted an entry to his blog, Scholar as Citizen, calling for greater investigation into the American Legislative Exchange Council, a conservative group that proposes “model bills” for republicans to adopt in state legislatures nationally. Stephan Thompson, of the Wisconsin Republican Party, responded to
