What Does Open Government Mean?

The Center for Responsive Politics website (opensecrets.org) offers an excellent one-stop shop for financial information about national elections and candidates. A single page contains the latest campaign fundraising tally for all congressional races in California.

First Amendment Coalition website has an extensive array of resources on First Amendment issues and its  new free iPhone and Android Know Your Rights app, iOpenGov.  

CalAware, a group dedicated to government transparency in the state that keeps up to date tabs on transparency cases across the state and has helped develop and promote local open government initiatives in Alameda, Berkeley and Dixon., is an excellent resource.

The California League of Cities has an excellent Open & Public IV: Guide to the Ralph M. Brown Act, the state’s public meetings law.

TheFirst Amendment.org has these useful guides on California public records and court documents: Pocket Guide to the California Public Records Act and the Pocket Guide to Courts & Court Records.