Transparency News, 11/2/20

 

Monday
 November 2, 2020


 

election-eve

 


There's not much in the news today (or even over the weekend) that isn't election-related. Access and transparency articles and op-eds are scarce. But I wanted to get a newsletter out to stay in touch because there will definitely not be an issue of the newsletter tomorrow. I won't be reading headlines in the morning because I will be working as an election official in James City County from 5:00 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. (Come to think of it, Wednesday's newsletter might be on the late side. LOL!)

Check your inbox later today, though, for our monthly update.

If you haven't voted already, vote tomorrow. And when you do, be nice to your neighborhood election worker.

 
OF NOTE:


Today, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service v. Sierra Club — a case that will define the bounds of the deliberative process privilege under the Freedom of Information Act. More broadly, the case implicates how to balance the public interest in transparency and accountability in government decision-making with the public policy of facilitating federal agencies’ ability to deliberate candidly. It will be the first case argued with Justice Amy Coney Barrett on the court.  In this case, the Supreme Court will address whether exemption 5, through incorporation of the deliberative process privilege, protects the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service (collectively, “the services”) from disclosing certain documents prepared as part of a statutorily required interagency consultation process with the Environmental Protection Agency.
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