8 | March 15, 2018 | Alpharetta-Roswell Herald | NorthFulton.com SUNSHINE WEEK

This week media companies across the country are honoring Sunshine Week to raise aware-ness for the impor-tance of the public’s right to information. Appen Media Group is participating for the second consecu-tive year.

Launched in 2005, Sunshine Week was created by the American Society of News Editors and is now coordinated in partnership with the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.

Participants encourage open govern-ment and push back on excessive offi cial secrecy by publishing stories, editorials, columns, cartoons and graphics.

It also encourages civic groups to hold forums, educators to talk to stu-dents about the importance of govern-ment transparency, elected offi cials to pass resolutions supporting openness and private citizens to write letters to their elected offi cials and local news-papers penning their opinion on the topic.

Right to information is not just a right constitutionally guaranteed to the media.

Know your rights to information

HANS APPENGeneral Managerhans@appenmediagroup.com

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Landmark sunshine billcelebrates 52 years

The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) turned 50 years old on July 4, 2016. The landmark bill, signed into law by a reluctant Lyn-don B. Johnson in 1966, gave the public unprece-dented access to government documents.

Like many great American contributions to democracy, it was the project of a lone crusader, opposed by the leading politicians of the day until it fi nally became law, then fully embraced on paper but never more than half-realized in reality.

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It is the right to hold power to ac-count and ensures that you are given every opportunity to play an enlight-ened and empowered role in your democracy. It encourages honesty, effi ciency and participation.

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