Talk:Freedom of information in the United States

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I've merged a few redundant stubs into this one: Open meetings law, open records law, government in the sunshine. If someone was inspired to merge again, combining this article with Freedom of Information Act (disambiguation), that'd be great - I didn't, because my understanding of sunshine law is that it's a little broader than just government records, but that may not be a useful distinction, and the FOIA (disambig) page has a great international scope that is lacking from this article. Cdc 01:44, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

This article overwhelmingly deals with the USA; I've mentioned sunshine laws in the main FOI article, so what I'm going to do is move this to Freedom of information in the United States, redirect sunshine law to Freedom of information legislation, and then we have scope to write about the various national FOI/openness laws in the US as well as the individual states. Sunshine laws aren't FOI per se, but they're "spiritually" very similar, and it's probably worth discussing them alongside related legislation. Shimgray | talk | 14:33, 28 October 2005 (UTC)