Sunshine Review

sunshine review promotes transparency and affirmative disclosure so that citizens may monitor state and local government and hold elected officials and civil servants accountable. the sunshine review empowers citizens by: -sharing and evaluating information about state & local government, -collaborating with organizations committed to transparency, and -engaging in projects to make information more accessible to citizens, journalists and activists. sunshine review's transparency checklist evaluates and scores the web sites of every city, county, school district, and state agency in all 50 states. the transparency checklist is a unique evaluation instrument that measures what content is available on government web sites against what should be provided. the evaluations produce credible data easily accessible to citizens, journalists and activists. the sunshine review “wiki” attracts nearly 4 million viewers to 39,000 pages of material collected by 700 contributors.