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OpenTheGovernment.org is a coalition of journalists, consumer and good government groups, environmentalists, library groups, labor and others united to make the federal government a more open place in order to make us safer, strengthen public trust in government, and support our democratic principles.
Steering Committee Members
Steven Aftergood, Federation of American Scientists
Mary Alice Baish, American Association of Law Libraries
Gary D. Bass, OMB Watch*
Tom Blanton, National Security Archive*
Lucy Dalglish, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
Charles Davis, National Freedom of Information Coalition
Robert Leger, Society of Professional Journalists
Conrad Martin, Fund for Constitutional Government**
Elliot Mincberg, People For the American Way
Reece Rushing, Center for American Progress
Peg Seminario, AFL-CIO
David Sobel, Electronic Frontier Foundation
* co-chairs
** ex-officio member
This coalition is made possible by the generous support of: Angelina Fund View coalition partners -- organizations and individuals -- who have already signed the Statement. Next, join us and become an advocate! If you would only like to subscribe to our mailing list, please sign-up here. And please add a link to us on your website. News Highlights Secret block hampers open-government bill On YouTube, Charges of Security Flaws Secret senator blocks bill, creating classic 'whodunit' Cold War Missiles Target of Blackout Increasingly, Bush Escapes the Media Pack Let's Reverse the Pattern of Secrecy Concerned that our government keeps from the American public information that we need to make our families safe, secure our country and strengthen democracy, a broad-based set of organizations formed OpenTheGovernment.org. We hope you'll help. Government secrecy saw further expansion in 2005 despite growing public concern, according to our new report, Read the report (.pdf) and the press release. Reclassified records to go back on the shelves Congress agrees on transparency bill; Secret holds still allowed Find the full update here For other policies that OpenTheGovernment.org is watching, please visit our compendium or see past updates.
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