Your Right To Know

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Commons officials more focused on furthering "immediate interests of MPs" than "propriety in public expenditure." […]

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Have you ever: ◦Wanted to get information from a public authority? ◦Thought they weren't telling the whole truth? ◦Had problems getting the information you wanted? […]

A website with resources on a variety of issues that confront reporters, writers and journalists. For example, when a writer is on public school grounds covering a protest, can they be charged with tresspass? […]

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The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government. As a priority Open Government Initiative for President Obama's administration, Data.gov increases the ability of the public to easily find, download, and use datasets that are generated and held by th […]

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Heather Brooke is an award-winning writer, journalist and activist. Her unprecedented five-year campaign for the full disclosure of MPs’ expenses led to a full-scale reform of the Parliamentary expense system. Heather is the author of The Silent State (Heinemann) and Your Right to Know (Pluto Press). She is is an honorary professor at at City University’s De […]

You choose the public authority that you would like information from, then write a brief note describing what you want to know. We then send your request to the public authority. Any response they make is automatically published on the website for you and anyone else to find and read. You pay taxes, and then government does things with the money. All sorts o […]

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