| Sunshine Act Release: Cabinet business up to February 2022 and other findings |
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PRESS RELEASE ![[Image: cabinet-dispatch.png]](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TheSouthPacific/tsp-graphics/master/cabinet/cabinet-dispatch.png) Sunshine Act Release: Cabinet business up to February 2022 and other findings 1 August 2022 Fellow South Pacificans, In accordance with the Sunshine Act, the Cabinet has declassified and released forum threads and significant Discord discussions from two previous terms between June 2021 and February 2022. In total, 23 forum threads have been released, two of which have been partially redacted. The Cabinet has withheld the release of six forum threads on the grounds that they are either integral to regional security or contain diplomatic conversations. In the interest of regional security, the #foreign-affairs-council logs from June 2021 to February 2022 will not be published for public consumption. The Cabinet has released significant #cabinet-office discussions occurring in the Witchcraft and Sorcery Cabinet, but no discussion in the HumanSanity I Cabinet was found to be significant to warrant a release. Statistical inquiry and findings Leading up to this Sunshine Act release, I took it upon myself to discover Cabinet activity on Discord to track which channels were the busiest and those that were the least. These are my findings. The date range on this inquiry begins in October 2020, which is around the time that the South Pacific moved to a unified Discord server, and ends in June 2022. In Cabinet-level Discord channels, I found that the busiest period was Witchcraft and Sorcery's premiership from June to October 2021. After #foreign-affairs-council's inception, it has become the go-to discussion area for top-level foreign affairs discussion within the Cabinet, which includes the prime minister, minister of foreign affairs, minister of defense, and top foreign affairs advisers. As of June 2022, #foreign-affairs-council remained ahead of #cabinet-office, in terms of activity, for four consecutive Cabinet terms. On the other hand, #domestic-affairs-council lags far behind both #foreign-affairs-council and #cabinet-office, ostensibly illustrating a difference in priorities in the South Pacific's regional government. ![[Image: Cabinet-level%20activity%20on%20Discord%...02022).svg]](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Jay-NS/NS-files/842bd2a121357d442ac1a6610d8c689de359d827/Cabinet-level%20activity%20on%20Discord%20(October%202020%E2%80%93June%202022).svg) Declassified forum threads and Discord conversations
Faithfully yours, ![[Image: Jay%20Coop%20sig%20(orange).svg]](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Jay-NS/NS-files/a6f8372b474ec526baf207e9b11c3bb839b52cec/Jay%20Coop%20sig%20(orange).svg) Jay Coop Prime Minister of the South Pacific On the behalf of the Cabinet
Thank you, Jay, for your work in spearheading this release!
Minister of Foreign Affairs
General of the South Pacific Special Forces Ambassador to Balder Former Prime Minister and Minister of Defense ![[Image: rank_general.min.svg]](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TheSouthPacific/tsp-graphics/master/mod/spsf/150w/rank_general.min.svg){kind=icon} ![[Image: updates_lifetime_3.min.svg]](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TheSouthPacific/tsp-graphics/master/mod/spsf/150w/updates_lifetime_3.min.svg) ![[Image: detags_lifetime_4.min.svg]](https://github.com/TheSouthPacific/tsp-graphics/raw/master/mod/spsf/150w/detags_lifetime_4.min.svg) ![[Image: defenses_lifetime_4.min.svg]](https://github.com/TheSouthPacific/tsp-graphics/raw/master/mod/spsf/150w/defenses_lifetime_4.min.svg) ![[Image: ykXEqbU.png]](https://imgur.com/ykXEqbU.png) |
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