ITPI Commentary in Sector: General

Privatization Limits Access to Public Information

03/20/2013

Companies looking to take control of public services are winning government contracts for a wide array of services ranging from state prisons to local water systems to public schools, and often without much public oversight.

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Sunshine Week: New Action Needed to Get Government Contractors Out of the Shadows

03/13/2013

As a part of Sunshine Week, a national initiative to promote open government and the freedom of information, In the Public Interest is calling for increased transparency in government contracting and privatization deals.

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General

Privatization threatens open government

03/20/2012

By Donald Cohen

On July 4, 1966, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) into law, establishing the public's right to access to government information.   Surprisingly, Republican Congressman Donald Rumsfeld helped deliver Republican votes to pass the groundbreaking law. 

Since then, state governments followed suit and began passing open government laws across the country to ensure the public would have "sunshine" and access to information about the way public services and tax dollars are managed.

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An employee of Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Stewart Detention Center in

The 99% Plan: The privatization trap

02/13/2012

By Mike Konczal, Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute

Privatizing the government is one of the most active projects of the early 21st century.

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General

The Privatization of Public Services, State by State

02/02/2012

 

It seems there's no public service or piece of property that private companies are not eyeing as potential revenue streams. While funding anti-government think tanks like the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), companies like Corrections Corporation of America, Waste Management, Maximus, Intuit, Laidlaw, Northrup Grumman, Koch Companies, Macquarie Capital Advisers, Pinnacle West, and UnitedHealthcare are hoping to use government as their candy store.

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