The case of potentially millions of missing White House e-mails has illuminated the broader lack of a federal electronic recordkeeping system. House Democrats have introduced legislation that would get the National Archives and Records Administration to set a standard for capturing and preserving e-mails across the federal government. The ...

Another key sticking point of the CPSC bill is what should go into a public database of unsafe products on the market. As the Wall Street Journal’s Jane Zhang reports, the politics and practicality of public disclosure is an issue also besetting the United States Department of Agriculture.

Congress has passed new legislation requiring greater transparency and quicker responses from federal agency to Freedom of Information Act requests.  The latest on FOIA has been published in the Lafayette, Indiana Journal and Courier.  Read the AP's Laurie Kellman here.

Remember when half of U.S. media outlets weren't owned by an Australian-born billionaire, and the other half by a handful of faceless corporations?  That was before the FCC pushed through new media ownership rules without public involvement, as they seem poised to do once again.

David Carr of the Times writes about the gradual demise of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and the real difficulty of getting facts from our government, in large part because of “agencies that flout the law through recalcitrance or ineptitude.”  See Carr’s commentary here.

All together now:  “Hip, hip, hooray!”

There’s something to cheer about in how federal agencies are improving responses to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests from the news media and citizens.

However, backlogs are rather large in some organizations and much work remains to be done.  One option ...

The Freedom of Information Act (commonly known in government circles as FOIA) was designed to allow citizens and the media much greater access to government files, deliberations, etc.

The following two articles, as well as other additional articles identified in these items appearing at govexec.com, show that further access to government ...