Let the people know the facts, and the country will be safe. — Abraham Lincoln
One of the blogs I read everyday, State Sunshine & Open Records, found what might be the coolest use of FOIA yet. A British band performed a song in front of surveillance cameras, then sent (the British equivalent of) FOIA requests for the footage, and assembled a music video from it! Neat.
Here’s the video:
The music’s not bad either — way to go to The Get Out Clause!
If you haven’t noticed, last week was Sunshine Week. To celebrate (somewhat belatedly), here is a wrap up of some of the press Sunshine Week got here in Wisconsin.
Keeping the light of openness on government is important from the Vernon County Broadcaster. Yes indeedy.
Daily Register wins open government award from the Portage Daily Register. Congratulations!
Open records yours, for price from the Wausau Daily Herald, with a fun quote from Merrill city clerk Bill Heideman: “I figure, ‘Hey this is the public. They pay taxes. Let’s give them this stuff’”.
And my favorite story about open records recently in Wisconsin: Gov. Doyle’s office not enamored with Freedom of Information from Fox River Politics. Looks like Jo Egelhoff is participating in the Sunshine Blogger Project for the state of Wisconsin. Cool! I’ll be following this one with great interest.
Well, it’s a slow week for news about open records in Wisconsin, and I have a cold. So this is it for today’s post 
Nothing about open records today, just a little about the weather:
Yay for snow! It’s formed a crust hard enough to walk on top, which led my brother and I yesterday to make running starts and see how far we could slide. He totally won every time — I think it was his shoes. Still fun though!
I’ve also been giggling over Badger Blogger’s words of wisdom about dealing with the weather. It kills me how every year we all have to relearn these things… it’s like Wisconsin is suddenly populated by southerners the first few snowfalls.
… and in honor of it, here’s a funny post from Wigderson:
