TransparencyPaper details:

1- Approaches to Transparency
According to Rosenbloom, what are the five approaches used to increase openness or transparency in government? Identify the approaches and describe them or use examples of each. Have you ever made a FOIA request or used another approach listed in the book? If so, what was your experience?

2. Non-Mission Based Values

What were the key findings in the Piotrowski and Rosenbloom article on non-mission based values? How many FOIA requests were made? How do we get public administration to pay attention to non-mission based values, such as transparency? For example, NASA has zero transparency values in its mission statement.

3. Freedom of Information
Each state has a version of the federal level Freedom of Information Act. Regardless if you work for a federal or state government agency as a public administrator it is your job to be familiar with the Freedom of Information Act. If a citizen makes a request for information, how would you respond? For example, what categories of information (exemptions) are not included in the FOIA? what are the types of disclosures? time deadlines, and fees assessed for FOIA requests?

Reference
Rosenbloom, Transparency, pp. 115-138 and Piotrowski, Suzanne David H. Rosenbloom. “Mission based values in results-oriented public management: The case of freedom of information,” Public Administration Review (PAR) Nov/Dec 2002 62(6): 643-658.