Sunshine Review
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| Motto | Bringing state & local government to light |
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| Founded | July 2008 |
| Dissolved | 9 July 2013 |
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Sunshine Review was an American nonprofit organization that advocated for increased government transparency.
On July 9th, 2013, Sunshine Review was acquired by the Lucy Burns Institute and merged into Ballotpedia.
In March 2010, the organization reported that it had evaluated over 5,000 government websites, including 3,140 counties, 805 cities, and 1,560 school districts. In March 2010, Sunshine Review launched the Sunny Awards just prior to Sunshine Week to recognize the 39 local government websites that had score an A on their checklist. By the time of the 2011 Sunny Awards, those who qualified had more than doubled, with the organization handing out 112 awards to state and local government websites. In 2012 the number of awards had increased yet again, with the organization handing out 214 awards to state government and other localities.
St. Charles Parish, Louisiana reported redoing its website partly in response to the critique on Sunshine Review.Dupage County, Illinois promised to add county contracts to its website.Champaign County, Illinois was recognized by a local newspaper for its informative website based on Sunshine Review's evaluation of the county's website.
Other local government has also upgraded their websites to receive perfect grades on Sunshine Review's checklist including Tulsa County,Owasso City,Carbondale and Anderson County.
Sunshine Review was credited with inspiring Cook County, Illinois to post its checkbook register online.
In 2011, Sunshine Review chose 152 local governments as the focus of research on public employee salaries. The editors of Sunshine Review selected eight states with relevant political contexts (listed alphabetically):
1. California
2. Florida
3. Illinois
4. Michigan
5. New Jersey
6. Pennsylvania
7. Texas
8. Wisconsin
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