Meanings
- figurativelyuncountableOpenness, transparency, public awareness.
1998 September 3, Janet Reno, United States Department of Justice, Press Conference, Proceedings Florida had a good, open sunshine law, a public records law
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1998 April 29, House of Commons Agriculture Committee Reports, Session 1997–1998, Select Committee on Agriculture, Fourth Report https://web.archive.org/web/20060710032033/http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm199798/cmselect/cmagric/331iv/ag0409.htm The activities of the Agency and its advisory committees must take place in the open sunshine of public scrutiny and accountability.
This change, dubbed the Open Sunshine policy, de-classifies the formerly confidential criteria used to determine the amount of money an organization would receive.
2005 September 20, Andrea Grabow, “‘Open Sunshine’ sheds light on SA allocations”, in The Collegian Online: An Independent Student Newspaper of the University of Tulsa
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