Information about The Carnival of Open Records

The Carnival of Open Records is a blog-centered project to build and promote awareness about open records issues and concerns, which include:

• Open records requests that have been filed, and the results they have produced or the denials with which they have been met.
• News and commentary about transparency reforms.
• Controversies in FOIA-land.
• Legislative changes that enhance or hinder access to public documents
• Lawsuits and judicial determinations that enhance or hinder access to public documents.
• Groups that are promoting stronger open records laws, and groups that are doing the opposite.

What is a Blog Carnival?

Reasons to have a Carnival of Open Records

Who creates a Blog Carnival?

Show me an example of a successful, well-established blog carnival. (That's the Carnival of Education.)

Ingredients of a successful edition of the Carnival of Open Records

FAQ about the Carnival of Open Records

If you'd like to build awareness about open records through participating as a blog writer or as a blog host in the Carnival of Open Records that would be great.

What is needed are blog hosts who volunteer to host future editions of the Carnival of Open Records and blog writers who write and submit blog posts to the Carnival.

Sign up here to host editions of the Carnival of Open Records.

We also need a coordinating mechanism where people can sign up to host future editions of the Carnival.

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