Sign-on letters
Former Elected Officials to Obama: Show Us the Money!
Today, 14 members of Issue One’s ReFormers Caucus released a letter to President Obama asking him to show us the money. That’s the gist of their letter to the White House…
Sign-on letters
Issue One joins more than 40 organizations calling on Biden Administration to prioritize transparency
Issue One today joined more than 40 organizations calling for the Biden administration to prioritize and increase transparency and openness, asserting that “disclosure, candor, and accessibility should be the default operating mode of our government.”
“Transparency is foundational to a government of the people, by the people, for the people. The right to know what our government is up to is also one of the most fundamental checks and balances in our system of government — one that depends on the preservation of relevant information and public access to it,” states the letter, which was sent to the White House and President Joe Biden today.
“As our country’s history has shown us time and time again, when government secrecy proliferates, so do civil liberties violations and obstacles to democratic accountability. That is why we call on you to embrace open government as one of your administration’s most important priorities and one of the most consequential legacies that your presidency could bequeath to future generations,” the letter continues.
Led by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, the letter calls on government officials to implement public records statutes in accordance with the law and advocates for new FOIA guidelines that prioritize transparency and the public interest, in addition to other major reforms designed to improve public access and government accountability.
The full list of signatories of this letter are as follows:
American Civil Liberties Union
Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University
American Immigration Council
American Oversight
Brooklyn Law Incubator & Policy Clinic
Campaign Legal Center
Center for Constitutional Rights
Center for Media and Democracy
Center for Responsive Politics
Civil Rights and Transparency Clinic, University at Buffalo School of Law
Common Cause
Cornell Law School First Amendment Clinic
Defending Rights & Dissent
Demand Progress
Digital Democracy Project
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Electronic Privacy Information Center
Essential Information
Good Government Now
Good Jobs First
Government Accountability Project
Immigrant Legal Resource Center
International Documentary Association
International Refugee Assistance Project
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Jacobs Institute of Women’s Health
Mainers for Accountable Leadership
Media Freedom & Information Access Clinic
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Michigan State University First Amendment Law Clinic
National Coalition Against Censorship
National Freedom of Information Coalition
National Immigration Law Center
National Immigration Litigation Alliance
National Security Archive
New Media Rights
Open The Government
PEN America
Project On Government Oversight
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
Society of Professional Journalists
TechFreedom
The FOIA Project
Union of Concerned Scientists
