Obama to agencies: Be open, invite public in, and collaborate
President Obama’s open government directive, released this morning, tells government agencies they must meet deadlines in working toward a more transparent government. The document is available here;...
View ArticleBad stuff on judge’s computer, $1 mil in overdue sewer bills, and more
News from around Pennsylvania on open records requests and denials: The Towanda Daily Review that the state open records office upheld Bradford County’s denial of the newspaper’s request to see...
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Video of police fatal shooting: Will you be able to see it?
When then-Springettsbury Police officer Gary Utter shot and killed Ronald Whitaker Jr. more than two years ago, a security camera was running. Springettsbury and Utter say that video proves the...
View ArticleWhy the YDR wanted addresses with county time-response logs
People in York County lost their right to effectively assess emergency time response when a county judge ruled Thursday that addresses, cross streets or block addresses are not part of the county’s...
View ArticleNew federal spending numbers continue confusion
ProPublica, an independent online investigative news organization, just released updated numbers tracking federal stimulus money. And the numbers it has for York County ($82.2 million), be warned, do...
View ArticleSunlight Labs tails Obama’s transparency directive
At least one group won’t let President Obama’s open government directive be out of sight, out of mind. Sunlight Labs, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that describes itself as “focused on...
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First, Obama’s transparency directive. Gov. Rendell: You next?
So, Gov. Rendell, did you see what President Obama did the other day? Will you follow his lead in Pennsylvania? Obama told federal agencies to be more transparent, publish more data, and in fact, set...
View ArticleOpen government gathering live-streamed today
What’s called an “unconference” is happening today at Harvard U. that bills itself as being “about using social media tools and Web 2.0 technologies to create a more effective, efficient and...
View ArticleOpen government ‘unconference’ kicking into gear
The folks in Boston at a gathering today to talk about how the Web can help open up government to the public report (via Twitter, hashtag #gov20ne) that they’ve built their agenda for the day and...
View ArticleA different definition of privacy
An Oklahoma state employees’ group rips a newspaper for seeking birth dates of employees, calling the reporters “privacy pirates.” The Oklahoman and the Tulsa World combine to write a story that...
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