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SUNDAY, MARCH 13, 2005
UNLOCK YOUR GOVERNMENT: SUNSHINE SUNDAY/OPEN RECORDS

• Unlock your government
• Agencies' responses: From speedy to silent
• The 155 secrets
• Timeline: National history
• Timeline: Georgia history

GWINNETT
• Citizens speak up in the Voice of Gwinnett
• Lawmakers share their opinions

HEROES
• The waters' chief guardian
• Make records 'as accessible as possible'
• Political opposites find common cause
• Corruption? The jig is up
• Simple query, complex scheme
• Keeper's flame: 'They're not my records'
• 'You have to be involved'
• On the front lines in the war on secrets

THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 2005
Shaping your neighborhood

• Atlanta
• Intown neighborhood warriors
• Cherokee
• Clayton
• Cobb
• Neighborhood warriors in Cobb
• DeKalb
• Rockdale
• Coach mobilizes forces vs. Avondale Wal-Mart
• Fayette, Coweta
• Northside
• Northside neighborhood warriors
• Gwinnett
• The path of most resistance

SUNDAY, FEB. 27, 2005
The stories here were selected to show the ways open records laws help us know what's happening in our community. Each contains key information obtained through requests for records that federal or state laws require be available to the public.

MONDAY, FEB. 28, 2005

RECENT COVERAGE
Open government
OPINION

Land deals are your business
• Oppose legislation that would allow negotiations to be conducted in secret
Whom to contact

Call to Action
• The Georgia Legislature thinks you don't care

A dark day for public
• Let the sun shine in? No way, says Georgia House, as it votes to override the state's open-records laws
• Secrecy only clouds decision-making

Secrecy bill:
• 'Here's our call to action . . .'

Keep earfuls coming
• Even in its amended form, secrecy legislation deserves to die, as angry constituents demand

Finally, something our opinion duo agrees on!
• CYNTHIA TUCKER: Cloaks chafe democracy
• JIM WOOTEN: Secrecy betrays the real Georgia
• JIM WOOTEN: Encourage business, but count silver
• JIM WOOTEN: GOP prepares wrong message

Guest column
• Attorney General Thurbert Baker: Don't infringe on public's right to know

LUCKOVICH CARTOONS

• Putting the screws on Georgians
• For Georgians' own good

NEWS ARTICLES
• Secrecy bill under metro, rural attack
• Secrecy bill still stuck in state Senate
• Secrecy bill on hold; GOP tries to regroup
• Town riled over secrecy on waste site
• State wants more data off-limits
• Slow pace on open records urged
• Critics say bills ignore public
• Perdue mum on business secrecy
• Secrecy: Talks would be kept under wraps
• Bill trades secrecy for jobs