"Some background on our new transparency tool, Flashlight"

"Success in open-government advocacy can't only be measured in lawsuits won and legislation passed. Why open windows into powerful institutions if no one's going to look through them? With Flashlight, we hope to enable you, the public, to become watchdogs and data connoisseurs, to understand that you don't always need journalists to filter information for you, but instead you can examine the evidence yourself. The more eyes, the better. The more fish swimming through the data, the better."