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Join other Liberty Leaders to make every one of Illinois’ 102 counties transparent to the taxpayers. You can write a letter, attend a meeting to get board members to sign the Transparency Pledge, and fill out the checklist on Sunshine…

A popular way for officials to stall or stop government transparency initiatives is to claim that they’ll cost the taxpayers too much money. They say that tough economic times call for cuts in spending on programs and greater restraint when…

Liberty Leader Valerie Martin of Midlothian has led by example by posting a sample of the entire village’s municipal code online. 

Here’s what Valerie writes about her project:

At this time, the Village Code for Midlothian, Illinois is

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In some disappointing news, LaGrange-based School District 105 has decided not to post its expenditures online. In a letter dated January 22, 2009 to Liberty Leader Victoria Franzese, the district’s director of business services Cathy Johnson writes:

Thank

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Liberty Leader Lennie Jarratt sends us this report from Big Hollow School District 38 in Ingleside, IL:

The Big Hollow Taxpayers have won a small victory. On Monday, the school board backed down in hiring 

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Liberty Leader Dianna Visek scored another victory for fiscal transparency late last month in her home city of Urbana. 

Liberty 4 Urbana writes:

At the city council meeting last Monday [December 15], a resolution in favour of publishing of the

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In fewer than 24 hours in office, President Obama has made a small but significant step forward for government transparency at the federal level. I wholeheartedly approve.

My buddy jtlight sent me a link to a site depicts…

Liberty Leader Brian Costin has been showing up at Schaumburg village board meetings for years. Lately he’s been on a mission to ensure that the public have access to documents that show how officials spend taxpayer dollars. 

To publicize his…

And it was all the way back in 2006!

Liberty Leader Chris Jenner–a board member of Cary Community Consolidated School District 26 who recently led the charge for competitive bidding and online posting of public documents–recently…

Liberty Leader Chris Jenner is a school board member for Cary School District 26. Last month, the board passed two new resolutions that expand transparency on the board and provide new methods for citizen oversight and competitive bidding…