| Sunshine Week Open Government Letters |
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Government is most accountable to its citizens when it is transparent. In fact, a participatory democracy relies on the oversight of an informed citizenry — people who have the right to know what their government leaders are doing, and why.
Where candidates stand on open government issues is important not only in U.S. presidential elections — indeed, in elections at all levels of government — but also around the world in democracies long established and newly emerging.
Sunshine Week, which is celebrated each March, began as an effort to both engage people in discussions about the importance of protecting open government, and to empower them with the tools to utilize this information for the betterment of their lives and their communities.
A non-partisan initiative, Sunshine Week is led by the American Society of Newspaper Editors, but participants encompass groups well beyond the print, broadcast and online media to include students and teachers; federal, state and local officials; libraries; think tanks and non-profits; civic organizations; and sometimes even religious leaders.
PublishaLetter.com and Sunshine Week have now partnered to give the public an opportunity to write letters about open government issues. Unlike the other submissions to PublishaLetter.com, this is not a typical letter to the editor, but instead more of an online forum dedicated to open government. Letters posted here will be linked under a special "Sunshine Week" icon for PublishaLetter.com readers, and there will be a link from the Sunshine Week Web site,
www.sunshineweek.org.
To write a letter to the editor of a publication, please go through the regular PublishaLetter.com submission process. |
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