The Evolving Balance of Transparency and Privacy in Open Government

Résumé

The important principles informing the topic of this symposium include recognition that meaningful citizen participation in government is essential to a viable democracy, and that governmental transparency is a necessary condition for fostering citizen participation. Any discussion of openness or transparency in government necessarily involves administrative law, the area of law dealing with the “organization and the operation of administrative agencies (including executive and independent agencies) and the relations of administrative agencies with the legislature, the executive, the judiciary, and the public.”