Recommendation 2014-2 – Government in the Sunshine Act highlights best practices designed to enhance transparency of decision making at multi-member boards and commissions subject to the Government in the Sunshine Act. The recommendation urges covered agencies to provide a description of the primary mechanisms for conducting business, describe substantive business disposed of outside of open meetings subject to the Act (with appropriate protections for information made exempt from disclosure), and exploit new technologies to disseminate relevant information more broadly.
In the late 1960s and 1970s, in the wake of increasing public vigilance concerning the activities of government sparked by the Vietnam War and Watergate, Congress passed and the President signed a series of transparency laws designed to promote greater accountability and transparency in government decisionmaking. The Government in the Sunshine Act, enacted in 1976, focused specifically on the transparency of meetings of multi-...
| Name | Committee | Type | Date | |
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| Committee on Regulation Meeting Agenda | Regulation | Agenda | September 30, 2011 | Download |
| Approved Minutes from September 30 Meeting | Regulation | Meeting Minutes | September 30, 2011 | Download |
| Government in the Sunshine Act | Regulation | Recommendation | June 10, 2014 | Download |
| Proposed Amendments to Sunshine Act Recommendation | Regulation | Recommendation | May 28, 2014 | Download |
| Sunshine Act Draft Recommendation | Regulation | Recommendation | March 18, 2014 | Download |
| Special Committee Report and Recommendations on Sunshine Act (1995) | Regulation | Report | March 8, 2013 | Download |
| Committee Meeting Webcast | Regulation | Webcast | September 30, 2011 | Watch Video |
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