I really like the Sunlight Foundation‘s work. They are working mostly at the National level to bring the same transparency to government that I work for here in Georgia and Lee County.
They’ve got a new campaign they are gearing up for that sounds REALLY good, which is the title of this post.
Lee County’s website is a pretty good source of information, but it still is lacking in one area that I correct via youtube as much as possible – it doesn’t have video records of the various meetings. In Lee County, there is absolutely no way to know for yourself what the Board of Commissioners does outside of the agenda and agenda packets posted online, the reports of the Albany Herald, WFXL, and (sometimes) WALB, and my own efforts unless you actually attend the meeting yourself. There is no way to watch it at home on your television, and there is no way to watch it online even as a streaming live broadcast.
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