{"id":443510,"date":"2010-03-17T21:14:24","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T01:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.senatedem.ilga.gov\/index.php\/my-news-frerichs\/834-sunshine-on-illinois-spending-gets-senate-nod"},"modified":"2010-03-17T21:14:24","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T01:14:24","slug":"sunshine-on-illinois-spending-gets-senate-nod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/443510","title":{"rendered":"Sunshine On Illinois Spending Gets Senate Nod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: 10px\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" align=\"left\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" src=\"http:\/\/www.senatedem.ilga.gov\/images\/stories\/2010\/frerichs-031710br0570-031710.jpg\" \/><span lang=\"EN\">This week, the <a title=\"This link opens a site in a new window that is not part of the Illinois Senate Democrats website.\"  href=\"http:\/\/asne.org\/\"><strong>American Society of News Editors<\/strong><\/a> is promoting &quot;Sunshine Week,&quot; a nationwide effort to boost awareness and the need for increased access of public information.<\/p>\n<p>The organization\u2019s primary mission is to enhance Freedom of Information Acts (FOIA) throughout the nation. In essence, they encourage efforts to shed light on government action and proposals for every willing citizen to view. Last year, the Illinois General Assembly passed substantially stronger FOIA laws for our state. The legislation was part of a significant reform package led by Senate Democrats aimed at increasing transparency and accountability in our state\u2019s government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, the American Society of News Editors is promoting &quot;Sunshine Week,&quot; a nationwide effort to boost awareness and the need for increased access of public information. The organization\u2019s primary mission is to enhance Freedom of Information Acts (FOIA) throughout the nation. In essence, they encourage efforts to shed light on government action and proposals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6266,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6266"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}