March 12-18 is Sunshine Week. Associations, institutions and organizations connected to journalism will celebrate the initiative to promote open government, which was launched in 2005 . . .
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3/9/23
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Journalists celebrate James Madison’s birthday — March 16 — as part of “Sunshine Week,” a national initiative created by the American Society of News Editors to educate all of us about the importance of open government.
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3/10/22
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Amid all the clamor over Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s alleged sexual harassment and misreporting of nursing home deaths, you would have thought nothing else was happening in Albany at the moment. You would be wrong.
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3/25/21
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No matter how hard I try, I just can’t seem to get away from Donald J. Trump. Case in point: In the past, much of the discussion at the New York Press Association’s April convention . . .
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4/20/17
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Elected leaders often look upon the Freedom of Information Act with barely disguised disapproval, and more often with outright disdain. Heck, the president who signed the act . . .
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3/23/17
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The Elmont School District has agreed to comply with nonprofit transparency group Reclaim New York’s Freedom of Information Law request for records of the district’s 2014 expenditures after …
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By Steve Smirti
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8/3/16
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A nonprofit group named District 13 one of 57 governing bodies on Long Island that did not comply with a Freedom of Information Law, or FOIL, request submitted as part of a project by the group, …
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By Courtney McGee
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6/8/16
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A State Supreme Court ruled in mid-November that the Town of Hempstead must provide copies of the financial disclosure statements filed by former Town Supervisor Kate Murray and other town officials that were requested under the Freedom of Information Law. The FOIL was filed by the Madeline Singas election campaign, which received permission to view the financial disclosure documents, but not to copy them.
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By Rossana Weitekamp
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1/6/16
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Henry Boitel wasn’t asking for anything complicated. He just wanted to know what’s going on at the Town of Hempstead board meetings when he wasn’t able to attend. “The public doesn’t have any idea of what’s going on at those meetings,” said Boitel, “unless they read something in the newspaper.”
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By Rossana Weitekamp
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8/12/15
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Hillary Clinton and Andrew Cuomo could not have picked a better time to reveal their views on work-related emails. Last week was the 10th anniversary of Sunshine Week . . .
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3/26/15
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