Israel’s detainment of reporters must stop
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Honoring Daniel Ellsberg’s legacy: A $1 million donation to tackle government secrecy
Jack Dorsey’s #startsmall backs efforts to reform the government secrecy system, while honoring the late Daniel Ellsberg
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Secret science laws limit access to research records
Denying the press and public access to records isn’t the right way to protect academic freedom
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Sunlight on social media: Government officials’ posts should be public records
A new decision from Pennsylvania unnecessarily complicates the public’s right to know about government business conducted on social media
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In honor of a whistleblowing legend: Announcing the Daniel Ellsberg Chair on Government Secrecy
We will honor our friend by fighting for what he fought for his entire life: an end to excessive government secrecy.
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Congress: Don’t let jet owners cover their tracks on the taxpayer dime
Protect press and public access to private jet flight data
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Government is at its most innovative when ducking transparency
Agencies are increasingly emboldened to preempt records requests with closure rules
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It’s time for open records laws to promote transparency
Agencies misuse exemptions to cause delay and expense.
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Senate FOIA hearing brings hard questions for government witnesses
Lawmakers called for modernization and an answer to a “basic question about how FOIA is operating in the context of new technology.”
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Victory on the horizon in the “Free PACER” fight
The fight to free PACER, the federally managed database of public court records that has sat behind a paywall since its inception, has stretched on for more than a decade now. These efforts may finally pay off in 2022 with a bill poised for the Senate floor that achieves many of the aims of the "free PACER" movement.
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One of the Internet’s most impactful protests, a decade later
Ten years ago, a powerful online activism campaign against the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act stopped the bill in its tracks, much to the surprise of the lobbyists and legislators who had considered its passage inevitable. Led by grassroots organizers and civil liberties groups, sites big and small “went dark” for the day in a “blackout” designed to draw attention to the issue and direct calls to Washington.
