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Today in #transparency
I’m playing with this new WordPress plugin that renders tweets visually, just because I can. Here are some selected tweets using the hashtag #transparency from today: #bbpBox_127112747644223488 a {...
View ArticleA note about our teacher salary database
Sometimes, stories that have been on our site for a while show up in the “most popular” listing, which shows stories with the highest number of clicks in the preceding 12 hours. Our teacher salary...
View ArticlePenn State’s openness website: Some transparency, some PR
I took a quick look at Penn State’s openness website that debuted yesterday. The school bills it as “a resource for the Penn State community and other stakeholders to find answers to their questions...
View ArticleBill would offer more transparency in school superintendent buyouts
Angie Mason reports in her Cram Session blog that a bill approved by the Senate that focuses on school superintendent buyouts says that if a school board agrees to a buyout with a superintendent, it...
View ArticlePa. Supreme Court OKs grand juries that could replace public hearings in...
The state Supreme Court reinstated “indicting grand juries,” or grand juries that would determine whether prosecutors have probable cause to hold a case over for trial. The goal is to reduce witness...
View ArticleTwitter censorship drama: Were NBC execs trained in Pennsylvania regarding...
Poynter.org aggregates info revealing that Twitter told NBC that a Guardian reporter’s tweets were critical of the network’s Olympics coverage. Those tweets included the work email for NBC’s president...
View ArticleKony controversy sparked our latest look at nonprofit finances
We’ve written about nonprofits’ accountability in the past, mainly with our coverage of Angel Food Ministries and questions surrounding how it was spending its money. Our latest effort, by John Hilton,...
View ArticleThree bright ideas, and one bad call, on open records
Three bright ideas 1. With Kickstarter Funding, FOIA Machine Wants to Help Fix Public Records FOIA Machine, a platform that aims to streamline the process of tracking of filing and tracking public...
View ArticleNSA to citizens asking for own records: Nope, we can’t tell you that
Fantastic. Can't even get your own records from them. // NSA Rejecting Every FOIA Request Made by U.S. Citizens http://t.co/KW1ZZ0ZREc — scott blanchard (@scott_blanchard) July 27, 2013
View ArticleFeds declassify documents about telephone metadata collection; newspaper...
The U.S. director of national intelligence declassified and released three documents that explain more about the federal government’s collection of phone call and other data in its effort to find and...
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