The Sunshine Law currently stands as follows:
Article 6: Sunshine Provisions
1. The discussions of the Cabinet shall be released every 8 months for public archival accessible to all citizens.
2. The Cabinet may institute a classification system to ensure that discussions that are still undergoing or discussions that would seriously threaten the security of the region are not released too early.
3. The Cabinet shall regularly update the classification status of its discussions and not abuse the classification system to prevent its discussions from being published.
4. The Cabinet may publish its discussions at earlier intervals if it wishes or has been petitioned to do so by a Citizen.
5. The Cabinet may refuse to publish a discussion that has been petitioned by a Citizen. The reasons for which as well as the discussions in questions must be made available to the High Court. The High Court may overturn the Cabinet refusal to publish a discussion.
6. In the event that Cabinet discussions older than 8 months have failed to be published, the current Cabinet must publish those discussions in a speedy manner.
I would like to see the Sunshine Law expanded to encompass the CSS and the various Ministries. I recommend this not only in the interests of making TSP a more open region, but also so that newcomers to the region can look in the archives and see how those bodies operate. Opening this to the public would give newcomers a great idea on the day to day workings of the ministries and the CSS.
Any thoughts on this?
This might need an expansion to include the Courts as well
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Deputy Chair of the Assembly - June 2015-February 2016
Justice of High Court of the South Pacific - December 2014-April 2015
Minister of Regional Affairs
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Deputy Minister of Regional Affairs
President Tobias Murray
President of the Federal Democratic Republic of Awesomiasa
Simon Harawira
Permanent Representative to the Southern Cooperation Organisation
Federal Democratic Republic of Awesomiasa
The Ministry of the Army has a private area to discuss operational details.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has a private area to discuss foreign policy strategy.
The Committee for State Security has a private area to discuss the internal security of the region.
I see no need to force the disclosure of those subforums, considering the security implications greatly outweigh the transparency benefits.
I would understand the argument for disclosing the High Court and Ministry of Regional Affairs, but I am still not a fan of forcing them to disclose their content. Regional Affairs routinely discloses its content on its own accord, except for ongoing discussions, so a law would not be necessary.
Furthermore, reading disclosed threads is not necessary to know how an institution works. A soldier will receive appropriate training. A fellow will be assigned to a project. A diplomat will learn nothing from what little content is in the FA area. A citizen will learn nothing from Lubyanka because our discussions are subject-specific and need-to-know.
I would not oppose extending 8-month disclosure to the High Court, but on all other institutions disclosure would be, in my opinion, undesirable.
I would support extending The Sunshine Law to The High Court, but not the rest.
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I also would support the High Court falling under the Sunshine Law.
I would also support seeing the Sunshine Law extended to the court. But, like Kris said... most other ministries would be worthless or security issues.
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No I support including the High Court and all the other organisations. TSP should be liberal, free and open. Not conservative, and closed.
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I Would support extending the sunshine law to the high court but like others have said do not support extending it to the other areas.
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(06-23-2015, 11:21 AM)Punchwood Wrote: No I support including the High Court and all the other organisations. TSP should be liberal, free and open. Not conservative, and closed.
Why not have the SPSF plan all operations in a public area beforehand while we're at it. (sarcasm)
Things like security SHOULD be conservative and closed. (NOT sarcasm)
Animefan666 (me): One day I'd like to wipe out humanity...and maybe conquer the city. Ya know, the usual.
Then, once everyone is a zombie, we all starve and Serling dies. A perfect end to a doomed city.
Zombie61: /Rename Animefan666 to The-Brain.
Animefan666: So, now that we've established that I am Brain, who will be my not so brainy sidekick Pinky?
Kris: You suddenly remind me of Magneto's White House Speech in Days of Future Past.
TAC: So who's gonna be my right hand mutant?
Fortunado: And now i need something to restore my faith in humanity... been a struggle to stop losing it.
LeSageStupide: Have you ever just stared at TAC's avatar for a while? It helps a lot.
Punchwood, give me one reason why SPSF should publicly disclose operations. At all.
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