transparency
Posted Dec 28, 2021, 5:03 am
Anjana Susarla, Dam Hee Kim & Ethan Zuckerman /Michigan State University/The Conversation
It seemed hard to imagine a worse year than 2020 for misinformation on social media - but 2021 proved up to the task, starting with the Jan. 6 insurrection and continuing with copious amounts of falsehoods and distortions about COVID-19 vaccines - and 2022 is almost here.... Read more»
Posted Sep 8, 2021, 9:55 am
Matt Vasilogambros
/Stateline
Ten months after the 2020 presidential election, Republican state lawmakers in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin are following Arizona in pushing investigations rooted in the false claim that the election was stolen.... Read more»
Posted Sep 30, 2020, 3:42 pm
Jeremy Duda
/Arizona Mirror
Gov. Doug Ducey plans to acquire 150 body cameras for the Department of Public Safety, the first step in a larger proposal to equip all state troopers with cameras.... Read more»
Posted Jun 23, 2020, 2:22 pm
Eric Umansky
/ProPublica
ProPublica Deputy Managing Editor Eric Umansky’s family saw an unmarked NYPD cruiser hit a Black teenager. He tried to find out how it happened, and instead found all of the ways the NYPD is shielded from accountability.... Read more»
Posted May 11, 2015, 10:46 pm
Ioan Grillo & Simeon Tegel/GlobalPost
Hundreds of millions of patients around the Pacific rim face losing the chance to use new, cheap generic drugs to treat a host of conditions thanks to the Trans-Pacific Trade Partnership. The TPP will be the world’s largest ever trade agreement — and it's being negotiated behind closed doors.... Read more»
Posted Apr 13, 2015, 8:53 am
Lori Robertson
/FactCheck.org
Hillary Clinton has announced she will run for president in the 2016 race. Here’s a look back at some of the claims from Clinton that we’ve fact-checked over the years.... Read more»
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Posted Mar 30, 2015, 6:32 pm
Julian Lopez
/Cronkite News
Ducey's veto letter said Arizona law already gives police departments the ability to withhold names. It also said the legislation contained "ambiguities" that went beyond the stated goal of protecting officers and their families. ... Read more»
Posted Mar 19, 2015, 4:49 pm
Bill Slane
/Cronkite News
Keeping the names of law enforcement officers secret for up to 60 days after the use of deadly force would create a larger divide between citizens and the police force, advocates said Wednesday.... Read more»
Posted Mar 19, 2015, 10:54 am
Mackenzie Concepcion
/Cronkite News
Released during Sunshine Week, the annual Following the Money report praises Arizona for providing data about the state's largest economic-development programs through its OpenBooks website. ... Read more»
Posted Mar 16, 2015, 12:23 pm
Jeff Gerth
/ProPublica
The latest flap over her private emails as secretary of state is far from the first time she’s been accused of lacking transparency. ... Read more»
Posted Feb 24, 2015, 11:22 am
Sophia Kunthara
/Cronkite News
Saying local governments are wasting resources responding to public records requests filed by a handful of individuals intent on harassment, a state lawmaker wants to give agencies the power to deny such requests.... Read more»
Posted Feb 18, 2015, 1:45 pm
Ethan McSweeney
/Arizona Sonora News
Open government advocates found hope late last week after the governor reopened his daily calendar for public inspection and the legislature began discussions to change the language of a bill that allows most state business to be conducted behind closed doors. ... Read more»
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Posted Feb 11, 2015, 6:00 pm
Sophia Kunthara
/Cronkite News
Despite objections from open-government and civil rights activists, a state Senate committee advanced a bill Wednesday that would allow law enforcement agencies to withhold for 90 days the names of officers involved in deadly force incidents.... Read more»
Posted Feb 9, 2015, 9:57 pm
Roberto De Vido
/politicomix
Sen. Sylvia Allen, R-Snowflake, says Arizona’s open meeting law stifles informal discussions and has introduced a bill requiring that only meetings where action, such as debating or voting, begins to take place be held in public.... Read more»
Posted Feb 9, 2015, 6:06 pm
Sophia Kunthara
/Cronkite News
A lawmaker said Arizona’s open meeting law stifles informal discussions and wants to allow elected boards to talk out of the public eye. The current law requires all meetings that include a quorum of a government body to take place in public. Critics said the proposal would defeat the purpose of transparency laws.... Read more»
Posted Sep 23, 2014, 11:37 am
Charles M. Sennott
/GlobalPost
Editors and news executives gathered in Chicago last week to discuss how the industry will face a world that is increasingly dangerous for journalists.... Read more»