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Finding information on school websites about teacher and superintendent salaries, the amount spent per pupil nd more can be a challenge.

For Sunshine Week, an annual national celebration of open government, the Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association examined public school system websites to assess how easy it is to get key information about public schools in the three jurisdictions. MDDC looked at websites in D.C., all 23 counties and the city of Baltimore in Maryland, and four large school systems in Delaware.

The U.S. faces far more threats to its national security than from spy balloons or classified documents discovered in former and current presidents’ homes. About 50 million more threats every year. That’s the estimated number of records annually classified as confidential, secret&...

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Richard T. Griffiths of the Georgia First Amendment Foundation has asked Georgia legislators to take a deep breath, tap the brakes and reconsider the "vast sweep" of Senate Bill 215, which would require redaction of names and property ownership from state databases of law enforcement personnel, politicians and hundreds of thousands of other government officials.

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The United States faces far more threats to its national security than from spy balloons or classified documents discovered in former and current presidents' homes.

The National Freedom of Information Coalition Board elected Jeff Roberts, executive director of the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition, to the office of president.

The US has an overclassification problem, which includes classifying documents about Santa Claus.

How did the colonial history of Algeria influence this country’s national identity and political economy after independence? Professor Muriam Haleh Davis will discuss her book, recently published by Duke University Press, which studies the interplay among racial categories, religious identity, and economic development in Algeria. Her research also shows how colonial policies played a central role in fashioning neoliberal economic ideas, documenting the intersection between decolonization and E...