Fall 2006

•  Highlights of Openthegovernment.org’s annual secrecy report
•  Around the South
•  Send us your nominations for the Weltner Award now
•  Victory in Georgia over a speech-muzzling campus code
• 
The 42 authors of FOI-harming bills this century
•  Sen. David Adelman's giant step for U.S. campus crime disclosure
•  Decatur County wrongly closed a meeting
•  The FOIA at 40
•  There shouldn't be a conflict between open government and industrial recruiting
•  At least three Southern states have constitutional open government
• Businesses make the federal FOIA their business

Summer 2006

•  Filing a complaint in Ga. Senate Ethics Committee doesn’t foreclose your speech
•  F.O.I. leaders search for resolve to carry Constitutional amendment fight in legislature
•  Supreme Court limits speech at work by government employee
•  Georgia FOI Confidential
•  Gubernatorial debate planned for Sept. 28
•  The forgotten fathers of Georgia open government
•  Around the South
• Georgia Attorney General Baker wins lawsuits opening records of the bids for a stock-car racing museum and 2009 Super Bowl

Spring 2006

•  'Freedom Sings,' First Amendment Center's musical tribute to the speech clause, performs April 25 at Emory
•  MARTA Transcard information next up as 21st Century General Assembly continues its assault on open government
•  Attorney's fee paid by agencies when losing in court?  An FOI dream advances a bit in 2006 General Assembly
• The ball is in the Georgia Senate’s court to require posting of bids on state registry
•  Georgia starts talking about putting open government in its constitution
•  Georgia FOI Confidential
•  'Sunshine Week' returns to pry open more government
•  Around the South
•  Metro jailers cooperation to tell more, but not Gwinnett


Winter 2005

•  Weltner Banquet 2006
•   Georgia FOI Confidential
•  Patriot Act Extended A Month
•  Barnes to be Weltner Banquet Guest Speaker


Fall 2005

•  Around the South
•  Senator Isakson to receive 06 Weltner FOI Award
• Feltus is 2006 Open Government Hero Award Recipient
• Bush Order FOIA Centers in Agencies
•  Campus crime in Georgia
•  Bennett leaves strong FOI legacy
•  My Open-Heart Surgery Nov. 7
• The ‘early development of journalist’s privilege’
• Gwinnett ends secret votes for land acquisition
• Lattimore-Volkmann is named new editor of Georgia FOI Access
•  Georgia FOI Confidential
• Surveys of open government now have been made in 26 states
• Gwinnett County's $150 million in spending without public input
• Ga. Supreme Court sides with Morning News on cameras in court
• Attorney General's first lawsuit of his mediation era
• Alabama's new Open Meetings Act

Summer 2005

•  Effingham County's Camera Ban Is "Out of the Universe" of Open Government
•  U.S. Senate Approves FOIA Reform
•  A ‘peace baby’ and journalism innovator dead at 86
•  Ga. courts lag in technology and have harsh secrecy draft
•  Open government in North Georgia; city-by-city history; The legacy of Mableton's Roy Barnes
•   Georgia FOI Confidential
•   Around the South
•   Law expanding data exemptions to all Georgia public officials quietly enters Title 50

Spring 2005 

•  Authors of FOI Harming Bills this century
•  Georgia FOI Confidential
•  Georgia Associated Press FOI Winners
•  Governor Perdue's Sunshine Proclamation
•  2005 Georgia Legislative Wrap
•  Metro Police Response is Mixed in Survey
•  Bartow Debacle 'Puts Face on HB 218'
•  Democrats: Write Open Government into Constitution
•  Senate Higher Education Committee hears about H.B. 340
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'Openness is the greatest preservative of truth and honesty,' says 2005 Weltner honoree
•  Court clerks again to bring media aboard and help define online access to their records
• Around the south
• Dekalb plans airport expansion in secret
• State's Newspapers Unite Against HB 218
• U.S. Senate airs FOIA reform bill
• U.S. Open Government History
• Georgia Open Government History -- north
• Georgia Open Government History -- south
• Carlson Testimony in favor of SB 153 
• Links to Georgia's 155 Open Government Exemptions
 

Winter 2004-2005

• Open Government Champion Honored
• Mercer University Police Records
• Georgia FOI Confidential
• Columbus police release records sought in suit
• Legislature 2005
• Resource officers in Gwinnett agree to clam up
• Curley affirms AP's commitment
• Around the South

Fall 2004

•  Clerk's race about access
• Justice Norman Fletcher to receive Weltner Award
• GEORGIA FOI CONFIDENTIAL -- Tracking down the Stewart County Board of Education
• Around the South
• Federal secrecy proposal attacked
• Southern states: summary of electronic court access
• Letting the cat out of the bag
• Ledger-Enquirer, WRBL News 3 carry their fight to Supreme Court
• Open government mediation
• The ethics of journalism

Summer 2004

• Investigate exception is under attack
• News from around the south 
•
GEORGIA FOI CONFIDENTIAL - The political consequences of the ignorance of open records
• This is at stake right now: the Internet access of the court records of Georgia Columbus clerk calls for statewide summit
• The 'transparency of public affairs' at Mercer U. is the issue in lawsuit
• Judicial candidates expand the frontiers of Georgia free speech, with their own 


Fall 2004

• Clerk's race about access

• Justice Norman Fletcher to receive Weltner Award
• GEORGIA FOI CONFIDENTIAL -- Tracking down the Stewart County Board of Education
• Around the South
• Federal secrecy proposal attacked
• Southern states: summary of electronic court access
• Letting the cat out of the bag
• Ledger-Enquirer, WRBL News 3 carry their fight to Supreme Court
• Open government mediation
• The ethics of journalism

Summer 2004

• Investigate exception is under attack
• News from around the south 
•
GEORGIA FOI CONFIDENTIAL - The political consequences of the ignorance of open records
• This is at stake right now: the Internet access of the court records of Georgia Columbus clerk calls for statewide summit
• The 'transparency of public affairs' at Mercer U. is the issue in lawsuit
• Judicial candidates expand the frontiers of Georgia free speech, with their own 


Spring 2004

• Georgia FOI Confidential
• ‘Levl’s Shield’ law widens Georgia freedom of information
• Authors of F.O.I. - Harming Bills This Century
• University of Georgia Foundation's meetings are latest to be opened by Thurbert Baker
• Joel Elliott, recipient of a Payne Award for courage, learns journalism "can bring change in a powerful way"
• 2004 NFOIC/SPJ CONFERENCE: The next assaults on government secrecy will come from the wire and Pete Weitzel

Spring 2003

• Hospital salary records remain open, says Georgia's Attorney General
• The fragile FOIA in a war environment
• HIPAA LIMITS OPENNESS: For police identification, who is the media, and who is not?
• 'It has become my mission': Thurbert Baker receives Weltner Freedom of Information Award


Winter 2002

• INTERVIEW: THURBERT BAKER - ' I consider it an honor to engage in open meetings and open records '
• Cathy Cox's leap
• Figuring out FERPA
• HOMELAND SECURITY: Georgia task force’s data is 'law enforcement sensitive'
• Tip from David Milliron: Law enforcement's excess military equipment
• Governor-elect Perdue votes on censorship, freedom of information
• The people's lawyer: Ga. Attorney General Thurbert Baker is 2003 Charles Weltner Freedom of Information honoree


Fall 2002

• What the police will release: They write their own guide to open records


Summer 2002

• $225,000 in damages awarded Lowndes deputy
• Taking the handcuffs off the police public records
• Amending its tollway contract is an everyday task for authority


Spring 2002

• Roy Barnes' first term
• Long day at the copying machine: Tech authority airs plan to overhaul records


Winter 2001

• Valdosta police agencies frustrate officer-turned-reporter
• GEORGIA CENSORSHIP ROUNDUP: Run for Senate, go to jail
• This Georgian's giving world more freedom of information
• Where's the real authority? The maze of hospital governance
• KATHY SCRUGGS, REPORTER: Her legacy is a stronger shield


Fall 2001

• CHARLES L. WELTNER: Georgia's champion of open government
• The 11th Circuit has some harsh words for Georgia's judicial-election speech police
• Twelve years and 24 requests to the City of Atlanta for records


Summer 2001

• Journalists appointed to commission whose findings and records are secret
• Tip from David Milliron: DOE Facilities Database
• Help us select Georgia's 10 most secret school boards
• Schools, and the freedom to speak are the issue in Walker County
• The problems inherent in 'presuming a logic and a deliberative process'


Spring 2001

• City of Dublin rates an 'A' in open records
• Across a large land mass, a new political system emerges


Fall 2000

• Sheriffs and Sunshine
• Becoming more public at Pickens County Schools


Summer 2000

• Tip from David Milliron: Database of state's sworn peace officers


Spring 2000

• Paper FOI tigers - A survey raises hopes for deeper involvement
• Crunch time on Confederate Avenue
• Wired Georgia
• Firestone cases unsealed

Spring 1999

• City of Atlanta Secrecy


Spring 1997

•
The UGA access blues


Winter 1996

• Surf the legislature
• Some big FOI gains occur on Georgia's borders


Winter 1995

• Speech Codes, Speech Chillers


Summer 1995

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It's A Matter Of Principle

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