For the last six years, a class of journalism students at the University of Nevada, Reno, has kicked off each semester by filing their first F…
It was not from the Supreme Court bench but in a Harper’s Weekly article in 1913 that Justice Louis Brandeis wrote the now-famous line, “sunli…
“All government data should be default public for maximum transparency.”…
WE’RE TAUGHT IN SCHOOL ABOUT CHECKS AND BALANCES BETWEEN THE VARIOUS BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT, but those lessons tend to leave out the role that…
PUBLIC ACCESS TO GOVERNMENT RECORDS IS ENSHRINED IN LAW, BUT IN PRACTICE IT DOESN’T ALWAYS QUITE WORK OUT THAT WAY. Each year during Sunshine …
LET THE SUN SHINE… Squid was giddy to get a notice from the First Amendment Coalition that Squid needed to prepare for Sunshine Week, an initi…
Thick fog rolled in for Sunshine Week in late March, the annual event when government transparency advocates raise awareness about the importa…