2023 Sunshine Week Accountability is key to every operation

by Gregory Williams, FOG Board Member and Former President Public officials and employees love transparency in the abstract.  In reality: not so much. Transparency in government is a crowd-pleasing election promise that gets set aside in practice.  It happens in part because openness takes effort.  It takes a daily commitment by public entities to provide Read More …

Six tapped for 2022 Dixon Award

Albuquerque, N.M. – The New Mexico Foundation for Open Government (FOG) has chosen five New Mexicans as the recipients of its 2022 William S. Dixon First Amendment Freedom Awards. The awards are annually presented to those New Mexicans who believe in government transparency at the state or local level – and who have made significant Read More …