One of UIC's incredibly well informed and dynamic librarians, Aimee Quinn, hosted a forum on secrecy in government as part of Sunshine Week: Your Right To Know!. Sunshine Week, March 12-18 2006. The first Sunshine Week was March 13, 2005. It was initiated by a group of jounalists, publishers, librarians and academics to promote the idea of open government for a healthy democracy. A brief clip from their 'about' page is pasted below:
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During Sunshine Week, participating daily and weekly newspapers, magazines, online sites, and radio and television broadcasters run editorials, op-ed columns, editorial cartoons, public forums, and news and feature stories that drive public discussion about why open government is important to everyone, not just to journalists.
Backed by a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation in Miami, Sunshine Week's success was due in large part to the many journalism groups, media companies, state press associations, open-government and First Amendment advocates, librarians, civic groups, educators and student journalists who participated. Sunshine Week 2005 exceeded expectations, with more than 730 participants producing thousands of articles.
Sunshine Week is an offshoot of Sunshine Sunday, which began in Florida in 2002. Led by the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors, Sunshine Sunday was developed in direct response to moves by the state legislature to severely restrict public information after the terrorist attacks against the United States on Sept. 11, 2001.
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pasted from http://sunshineweek.org/sunshineweek/about accessed March 14, 2006.
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