1 EMERGENCY INFORMATION SHARING Assessing Emergency Information Sharing between the Government and the Public during the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Open Government Perspective Chul Hyun Park, Ph.D. (Corresponding author) Assistant Professor University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service 1200 President Clinton Avenue, Little Rock, AR 72201 chpark@clintonschool.uasys.edu Chul Hyun Park is an Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service. He received a Ph.D. in Public Administration and Policy from Arizona State University and a Master of Public Policy from Georgia State University. His research interests include open government, e-government, collaborative governance, and program evaluation. Currently, he focuses on how nonstate actors collaborate with public organizations to address complex social problems, using information, communication, and computational technologies. Robert C. Richards, Jr. Assistant Professor University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service 1200 President Clinton Avenue, Little Rock, AR 72201 rcrichards@clintonschool.uasys.edu Robert C. Richards, Jr. is an Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service. He received a Ph.D. in Communication Arts and Sciences from Penn State University and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law. His research interests include deliberative democracy and participatory governance. His current research concerns the roles of goals and sense-making in democratic deliberation. Justin Reedy, Ph.D. Associate Professor University of Oklahoma Department of Communication and Institute for Public Policy Research & Analysis 610 Elm Avenue, Norman, OK 73019 jreedy@ou.edu Justin Reedy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and a research associate in the Institute for Public Policy Research & Analysis at the University of Oklahoma. He received a Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Washington. His research focuses on how groups of people make political and civic decisions, particularly on public policy issues that involve significant societal and personal risk.