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No photo of government transparency available
It’s outrageous that a school board and a state school board association would base efforts to limit cameras at public meeting on an attorney general’s opinion that has been declared unconstitutional. But that’s what the Loudon County (Tenn.) Board of Education would like to do. It would be interesting to see how that is explained…
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Finding news in all places
Jeff Cutler posted this video to Qik.com of fellow panelist Bill Adee, editor of digital media at the Chicago Tribune, during our session on link journalism Thursday afternoon with Publish2 CEO Scott Karp at the SPJ convention in Indianapolis. Adee talked about ChicagoNow, Chicago Breaking News and Colonel Tribune. We had a great group with…
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Spotlighting “Sunshine issues” also spurs open government opponents
Ironically, one of the outcomes of the Tennessee Coalition for Open Government’s 2004 public records audit, the first such statewide audit in Tennessee, is that lawmakers are filing more bills to close records. In this year’s session, Tennessee legislators filed three times as many exemptions to open meetings, open records laws than normal. Read more.