How journalists are marking Sunshine Week

Grand Forks County towns do well with open records audit

GRAND FORKS — Grand Forks County’s 10 town governments do well at providing minutes and agendas for city meetings, though response times, the documents shared and the accessibility of the information without a records request varies, according to a Grand Forks Herald audit. For Sunshine Week 2026 — a national initiative meant to highlight the importance of open public records and government transparency, started by the American Society of News E…

Our Opinion: More than most states, Massachusetts should heed Sunshine Week's message of public transparency

The letter of public records law and the spirit of government by and for the people both hold the same truth to be self-evident: The people have a right to know how the the public servants we employ are doing…

Sunshine Week in Ohio: Public records power accountability — if we can get them

Graphic by Ana Galvañ for The Marshall Project.This article was published in partnership with The Marshall Project – Cleveland, a nonprofit news team covering Ohio’s criminal justice systems. Sign up for their Cleveland newsletter and Facebook Group, and follow The Marshall Project on Instagram, Reddit and YouTube. Sunshine Week began March 15, 2026 and goes through Saturday, March 21. The nationwide, non-partisan initiative promotes the importa…

Restore transparency to Pennsylvania government

National Sunshine Week, March 15-21, is a time to highlight the importance of open, transparent government and to call attention to actions that place those principles at risk.

How journalists are marking Sunshine Week

Keeping information free This is Sunshine Week, an occasion for journalists, educators and anyone with an interest in government transparency to highlight the importance of the freedom of information — and the lengths to which journalists often have to go to make it free. Local media across the country are marking Sunshine Week in a variety of ways. Some, like Jeff Schwaner of Virginia’s Cardinal News, are taking readers behind the scenes in  po…

Sunshine Week audit: Grand Forks County towns do well with open-records requests

EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is part of a Herald series centered on Sunshine Week, an annual nationwide initiative that promotes government openness and transparency. GRAND FORKS — Grand Forks County’s 10 town governments do well at providing minutes and agendas for city meetings, though response times, the documents shared and the accessibility of the information without a records request varies, according to a Grand Forks Herald audit. For Sun…