CURRENT DOWNLOADS
Downloads will include content about FOI issues and news in Connecticut and beyond. We’ll be sharing links, reports, documents, video and audio you can view and download. This content will focus on legislation, public policies, and current events to make government in Connecticut more open and transparent and its citizens more informed. We’d like to hear from you and hope you will contribute. If you find relevant content that can provide benefit to others, please email the content or the link.
Media Freedom & Information Access Clinic, Yale Law School – Algorithmic Accountability: The Need for a New Approach to Transparency and Accountability When Government Functions Are Performed by Algorithms
Seigenthaler Report – Uncovering The Police: Converging Trends Threaten Public Accountability of Local and State Law Enforcement Across the United States
Knight Foundation – State of Public Trust in Local News
Protecting Sources and Whistleblowers: The First Amendment and Public Employee’s Right to Speak to the Media
NFOIC Portal to Compliance: A Qualitative Analysis of Online Public Record Request Services of Major U.S. Cities
NFOIC 2020 Vision – Vision, Mission, Strategies, Goals, Objectives for 2020 and Beyond
CFOG White Paper – Government Algorithms and the Public’s Right to Know
PAST DOWNLOADS
CFOG White Paper – Executive Branch Measures to Enhance Public Access to Government Information in Connecticut
Connecticut Freedom of Information Act
Resource Links
We have compiled links to interesting and valuable content about Freedom of Information (FOI) issues, news and events in Connecticut and beyond. These links include information at the local, state and national levels about legislation, public policies, current events, and educational materials. If you find have links to relevant content that we can include, please send them to us.
State and Local
Connecticut General Assembly
Connecticut State Website
Connecticut – Towns & City Governments
Connecticut Open Data
Connecticut Data Collaborative
Connecticut FOI Act
National and Federal
Annual FOIA Reports
Guide to the Freedom of Information Act
FOIA Update
FOIA.GOV
Your Right to Federal Records
Brechner Center for Freedom of Information
Electronic Privacy Information Center
Federal Agency Records Officers
Freedom of Information Clearinghouse
National Freedom of Information Coalition
OpentheGovernment.org
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press