As part of its citizen’s rights concerns, the League has long worked for the citizen’s right to know and for broad citizen participation in government.  While Initial activities focused on making materials available and meetings open to citizens, current activity has focused more on second generation issues, including:

• Making legislative processes, including the budgeting process, more open and transparent;
• Opening up enforcement proceedings for violation of a number of good government measures, including ethics and lobbying violations against legislators, other public officers,  and lobbyists, campaign finance enforcement proceedings, including proceedings brought for failure to disclose information, and proceedings for judicial misconduct; 
• Making materials available electronically on-line in a searchable format and filming open meetings. 

• Testimony before the NYS Senate Select Committee on Budget and Tax Reform (12/17/09) To urge improved transparency, forecasting and flexibility in New York State's budgetary process.
• Testimony Before NYS Assembly Standing Committee on Insurance (6/8/2009)
  To allow public comment  on health insurance rate increases

• League Supports Bill to Require Disclosure of Spending for School Budget Votes (5/24/2011)
• Letter to New York State Commission on Public Integrity in opposition to closed adjudicatory hearings for lobbying violations (9/29/2008)

Action is taken under our Citizen Rights position.