Groups press Biden to commit to transparency

Their letter asks the new president to reinvigorate FOIA and rein in government secrecy.

By Josh Gerstein, Politico, Feb. 22, 2021

On President Barack Obama’s first full day in office, he issued an executive order and two presidential memoranda urging greater transparency in government.

When President Joe Biden was sworn in last month, he signed 17 executive orders and other directives. None was focused on transparency.

Now, a coalition of advocates for more access to government information and deliberations are urging Biden to make such openness a higher priority and to reverse what they contend was a deterioration in public access to the inner workings of government under former President Donald Trump.

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