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Report identifies ten most wanted government documents and barriers to access

Two open government groups released a joint report to promote open government policies now under review by the new administration. The report included recommendations for making government more transparent. –DB Center for Democracy & Technology OpenTheGovernment.org March 20, 2009 Press Release Washington, D.C. – The Center for Democracy & Technology and OpenTheGovernment.org today released “Show Us The Data: The Most Wanted Government Documents,” a joint report based on an interactive, user-driven search to identify the

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Investigation of passenger's shooting death marred by lack of transit district transparency

The Bay Area Rapid Transit District’s investigation into the shooting death of a passenger has been marked by a failure to “provide basic and important information about the case to the public, even while promising transparency,” the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Many of the details have come instead from a lawyer for the dead man’s family and from amateur videos taken on the railroad platform and distributed by television and the Internet. — DR BART’s

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