-- Scott Blanchard, our Sunday editor, did a Q&A with Kim de Bourbon, executive director of the Pennsylvania Freedom of Information Coalition, about PA's new open records law.
-- A nationwide survey of government information accessible online found that the info least likely to be online were death certificates, gas pump overcharge records, schools building inspections and safety ratings and school bus inspection reports. In PA, surveyors found school reporting sites very handy for looking at district and school comparisons, "once you know how to look for it." Read more from the AP.
-- A private group, the National Security Archive, named the FBI as the worst performing federal agency when it comes to the Freedom of Information Act. The AP reports: The FBI tells two out of three FOIA requesters it can't find the records they asked for.
-- The ombudsman of the Washington Post discusses how some open-government advocates feel the paper hasn't done enough to curb Washington's "corrosive culture of anonymity."
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