This Sunshine Week, we’re highlighting serious threats to public accountability as well as major victories in government transparency.

As American Oversight celebrates its sixth anniversary, here are six of our biggest wins for public accountability and public records transparency.

American Oversight sued the CDC in 2020 after the agency improperly rejected several FOIA requests related to the pandemic.

Missouri lawmakers are poised to follow Arizona in exempting themselves from transparency laws.

Records request to the Arizona House of Representatives seeking communications regarding changes to the legislature’s public records retention policy.

Records request to the Arizona Senate seeking records regarding changes to the legislature’s public records retention policy.

Records request to the Arizona House of Representatives seeking records regarding changes to the legislature’s public records retention policy.

American Oversight’s public records lawsuit seeking the release of top officials’ communications will proceed.

The Department of Homeland Security and its Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency told American Oversight that they cannot search for requested records because of the agency’s prior practice of deleting data from departing employees’ mobile devices.

Each week brings more troubling news about attacks on civil rights in states across the country.