IMPLEMENTATION OF THE GOVERNMENT IN THE SUNSHINE ACT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R001600110062-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 6, 2004
• Sequence Number: 62
• Publication Date: August 25, 1978
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES
SUBJECT: Implementation of the Government in the Sunshine Act
To assist the Office of Management and Budget in evaluating the imple-
mentation of the Government in the Sunshine Act, as requested by the
President in his letter of June 9, 1978, the following information
and materials are requested from each agency as defined by the Act:
1. The name, title, mailing address, and telephone number
of the person or persons within the agency responsible
for responding to official or public inquiries about
the agency's Sunshine Act regulations, practices and
procedures (including location and availability of
minutes, transcripts, etc.);
2. A copy of the agency regulations required by Section 3(g)
of the Act;
3. A copy of any formal agency procedures, manuals or guide-
lines for implementing the Act and the related regulations.
If there are no formal documents, briefly describe current
agency practices in implementing the Act.
Please provide these materials to Mr. William Bonsteel, Management
Improvement and Evaluation Division, Office of Management and Budget,
Room 10235, New Executive Office Building, Washington, D. C. 20503,
no later than September 15, 1978. If you have any questions, please
call Mr. Bonsteel at [phone].
Wayne G. Granqui
Associate Director for
Management and Regulatory Policy
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THEWHITE HOUSE
June 9, 1978
MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF
DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES
SUBJECT: "-The Government in the Sunshine" Act:
Implementation
The Government in the Sunshine Act requires certain
Executive agencies to give notice of their business_
meetings and open them to public observation unless they
must be closed for any of ten specific reasons. If the
agency finds that the public interest requires, it must
open its meeting to public observation even if there is
a reason to close it. The same reasons which permit
Executive agencies to close their meetings also permit
advisory committees to close theirs.
To evaluate compliance with this Act, I have asked the
Director of the Office of Management and Budget to record
the number of meetings subject to the Act, to note whether
those meetings are open or closed, and if closed, to state
the reason for closing them. He will pass this informa-
tion along to mme and to the Congress, recommending whatever
actions may be appropriate to meet the spirit'as well as
the letter of the law.
In litigation under the Act, the Attorney General and
the affected agencies must not defend the closing of any
meeting unless they can demonstrate that harm would have
resulted if an open meeting had been held.
I urge the agencies covered by.the.Sunshine Act to respect
it by opening to the public as many meetings as possible.
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