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  • City Council — Agenda 4/7/2026

    Apr 7, 2026

    ·Boston, MA
    Agenda

    The Boston City Council scheduled a Public Safety & Criminal Justice Committee hearing on April 7, 2026, to examine the Boston Police Department's protocols for releasing police body camera and dashboard camera footage under Docket #0638. The agenda item indicates the council intended to review and potentially modify existing policies governing the public disclosure of recorded law enforcement materials.

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  • 2024-1431: Councilor Coletta Zapata called Docket #1431, message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of One Million Nine Hundred Eighty-Three Thousand Eight Hundred Seventy-Two Dollars ($1,983,872.00) in the form of a grant, for the Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation (SMART) Grant, awarded by the United States Department of Transportation to be administered by the Department of Innovation and Technology. The grant will fund the Digitizing of Boston’s Curbs via Machine Learning: Promoting Transparency, Workforce Development, and Equitable Green Policy Project, from the Committee on Environmental Justice, Resiliency & Parks. On motion of Councilor Coletta Zapata, the order was passed.

    Sep 23, 2024

    ·Boston, MA
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  • CB 120716: AN ORDINANCE relating to the establishment of a Fiscal Transparency Program; requiring periodic and consistent reporting and monitoring of City budgetary, financial, and fiscal policy information to the City Council and the public; adding a new Chapter 3.140 to, and amending Sections 3.14.100 and 5.08.020 of, the Seattle Municipal Code; and requesting that the Code Reviser recodify Chapter 5.08 of the Seattle Municipal Code in Subchapter I of Chapter 3.14.

    Nov 8, 2023

    ·Seattle, WA
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  • Wisconsin Public Meeting Notices and Minutes - Department of Administration

    Madison, WI
    Other

    This document is a homepage and index for Wisconsin's Public Meeting Notices & Minutes portal, a centralized website where state agencies post open meeting notices and minutes to increase government transparency. The page displays a searchable database of upcoming and past public meetings scheduled across various state departments, including the Department of Safety & Professional Services, Higher Educational Aids Board, and Department of Workforce Development, with meetings listed from May through September 2026. No specific budget figures, policy decisions, or meeting outcomes are discussed in this portal interface document.

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  • 10 :4-6 "Senator Byron M. Baer Open Public Meetings Act." 1.

    Newark, NJ
    Other

    This document excerpts the Senator Byron M. Baer Open Public Meetings Act, a New Jersey law (originally enacted in 1975 and amended in 2006) that establishes the public's right to attend and observe meetings of public bodies. The Legislature declares that public transparency is vital to democratic functioning and establishes state policy requiring advance notice and public access to all meetings where public business is discussed or decided, except in limited circumstances where the public interest or personal privacy would be endangered. The act defines "public body" as multi-member voting bodies organized under state law with authority to spend public funds or affect individual rights, while explicitly excluding informal advisory bodies, executive meetings with subordinates, and specific entities such as the judiciary and political party organizations.

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  • Recommended Budget for Fiscal Year 2026

    Hartford, CT
    Budget

    The City of Hartford, Connecticut submitted its Fiscal Year 2026 recommended budget to the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) for consideration of a Distinguished Budget Presentation Award, which it previously received for its FY2025 budget. The comprehensive 369-page budget document serves as both a policy document and financial plan, containing detailed sections on revenue forecasts, expenditure estimates by department, strategic initiatives, and five-year financial projections. The submission demonstrates the city's commitment to transparent financial planning and public communication of its budgetary priorities and fiscal operations.

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  • Fresno County Advisory Redistricting Commission Summary of Proceedings

    Fresno, CA
    Minutes

    The Fresno County Advisory Redistricting Commission held a meeting on October 21, 2021, with nine of eleven commissioners present to address redistricting matters. The commission approved corrected minutes from their October 5, 2021 meeting and received public comment on topics including map compliance, fairness criteria transparency, potential map deviations, and concerns about representation of Hispanic communities and the redistricting process. No specific policy decisions or budget figures were documented in the proceedings summary.

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  • FISCAL YEAR 2024 RECOMMENDED BUDGET City of Wilmington, North Carolina

    Wilmington, DE
    Budget

    The City of Wilmington, North Carolina's Fiscal Year 2024 Recommended Budget document outlines the city's financial plan, including budgetary fund structure, appropriation categories, and financial management policies covering revenue, expenditures, reserves, debt management, and capital investments. The document serves as a comprehensive guide for budget preparation, adoption procedures, and amendment processes, structured to provide transparency through detailed organizational information and accounting policies. Specific budget figures and policy changes are referenced in the table of contents but are not detailed in the provided excerpt.

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  • Public Records | City of Boise

    Boise, ID
    Other

    This webpage describes the City of Boise's public records access procedures and policies under the Idaho Public Records Act. It explains that all public records are available for inspection with potential associated costs, and provides multiple submission methods for records requests (online, by mail, fax, or in person) through the City Clerk's office, with a separate process for Boise Police Department records. The page defines key terms including "public record" and "writing" as specified in Idaho Code and notes that released records are not warranted for completeness or accuracy.

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  • Open-Records - Public Records Access Guide - York Township

    York, PA
    Other

    York Township has established an Open Records Office to process Right-to-Know requests under Pennsylvania's Act 3 of 2008, which grants the public access to government records with certain exceptions. The Township adopted its Public Records Policy on December 9, 2008, allowing residents to request and access public records during business hours through written requests submitted in person, by mail, or email to the Open Records Officer at RTK@yorktownshippa.gov. Requests must include specific identification of the record, preferred medium, and requester contact information, though the Township is not required to create new records or reorganize existing ones to fulfill requests.

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  • ATTACHMENT C How to Watch and Participate in Oakland City Council Meetings

    Oakland, CA
    Other

    This document explains how Oakland City Council meetings operate and how the public can watch and participate. The City Council comprises eight members—seven representing geographic districts and one Councilmember-at-Large—and holds regularly scheduled meetings on the first and third Tuesdays of each month at 1:30 p.m., with meetings open to the public and streamed live on KTOP (Xfinity Channel 10, AT&T Channel 99) and online via Zoom. The Council has eight four-member committees that review staff reports and policies before full Council consideration, with all committee meetings also open to the public and schedules available at https://oakland.legistar.com/calendar.aspx. Members of the public can participate by submitting eComments before meetings or by using the "raise your hand" feature during designated public comment periods on Zoom.

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  • Outline of Nebraska Open Meetings Act | Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers

    Omaha, NE
    Other

    This document outlines Nebraska's Open Meetings Act (Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 84-1407 through 84-1414), which establishes the state policy that all public body meetings must be open to the public to enable citizen participation in democratic processes. The Act, originally passed as part of LB 325 in 1975 and formally named in 2004, covers various provisions including meeting definitions, notice requirements, virtual conferencing options, emergency meetings, public rights, minutes procedures, closed sessions, circumvention prohibitions, enforcement actions, and criminal sanctions. The fundamental purpose of Nebraska's open meetings laws is to ensure that public policy formation occurs transparently at open meetings rather than in secret, except when protection of the public interest clearly requires a closed session on specific matters.

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  • Open Records Policy - Lancaster Township

    Lancaster, PA
    Other

    Lancaster Township's Open Records Policy establishes procedures for requesting public records through the township's Right-to-Know Officer, John Donnelly, via email, mail, or in-person delivery. Requests must use the official RTK Request Form and will receive a response within 5 business days; denied requests may be appealed to the Pennsylvania Office of Open Records within 15 business days. The policy also references federal requirements for health insurers to provide pricing data in Machine Readable Files format.

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  • OPERATING AND CAPITAL BUDGET FISCAL YEAR 2026

    Greenville, SC
    Budget

    This is the Fiscal Year 2026 Operating and Capital Budget document for Greenville County, South Carolina, a comprehensive 209-page budget document that outlines the county's revenues, expenditures, and financial policies across multiple fund types including General Fund, Special Revenue Funds, Debt Service Funds, Capital Projects Funds, Internal Service Funds, and Enterprise Funds. The document includes a County Administrator's budget message, strategic goals and initiatives, detailed departmental summaries covering administrative services, public works, public safety, planning and development, and judicial services, as well as financial policies and a long-range financial outlook. The budget is organized to provide transparency on resource allocation and performance measures across all county departments and services.

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  • Ky

    Lexington, KY
    Budget

    NULL The document is a technical asset listing from the Teachers Retirement System of Kentucky's investment portfolio as of June 30, 2025. It displays holdings in alternative credit and private equity funds with original costs and market values, but lacks budgetary information, appropriations, expenditures, revenue projections, or policy decisions that would constitute a government budget document suitable for public transparency comparison.

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  • Public Records - Law

    Cincinnati, OH
    Other

    The City of Cincinnati's Law Department document outlines the Ohio Public Records Act, which grants citizens the right to request access to public records to enable government oversight in a functioning democracy. The City commits to adopting a public records policy, organizing records for public access, and maintaining a retention schedule. Requests should be submitted through GovQA, the City's centralized public records management system, with responses provided promptly within a reasonable timeframe determined by individual circumstances, with copying costs charged at actual rates and certain exemptions allowed for legal review.

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