Sunshine Week, March 18, 2011

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## Links[edit]

* Sunny Awards recognize state, local governments with perfect transparency scores
* Los Angeles Times \- Keep your government open and honest -- share public documents with The Times
* Society of Professional Journalists \- SPJ gives Utah national “Black Hole Award” for egregious anti-transparency law
* Electronic Frontier Foundation \- Do Open Government Laws Still Matter in the Era of WikiLeaks?
* New York Times \- Judge’s Order Blocks Law on Unions in Wisconsin

## Footnotes[edit]

1. ↑ This article is one of approximately 120 on Ballotpedia about FOIAchats. These articles are among 37,000 created by the nonprofit Sunshine Review, which Ballotpedia acquired in July 2013.

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