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The Citizen Journalists' Guide to Open Government

Illustration by Mark Anderson

Door 1	Grading State Web Sites
Door 2	Access to Government Records: Some Basics
Door 3	What Records Can You Get?
Door 4	How to Create Productive Records Requests
Door 5	Following Up on Records Requests
Door 6	Blogger Q&A
Door 7	Access to Meetings
Door 8	Access to Courts
Door 9	Access to Resources
Door 10	Blog

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Government business generally isn’t supposed to be conducted in secret.

Public business isn’t supposed to be decided through secret handshakes.

Or behind closed doors.

There are open meeting or “sunshine”

laws in every state and for the federal government that generally require public officials to announce meetings in advance and hold them in public.

That means you generally have the right to attend and can report back to your audience with a first-hand account of what your public officials are doing.

You can help your community and the quality of your journalism by contributing to public information about the meetings in which issues and concerns are aired.

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