BOSTON (WHDH) - A battle over transparency on Beacon Hill will take center stage at the ballot box this November. Question 1 would expand the state’s<a class="excerpt-read-more"…

A federal appeals court ruled that border agents may manually search travelers' electronic devices without a warrant or suspicion of a crime, a decision that critics argue threatens privacy and free…

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DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

Resident Craig Harriman sued the town in September claiming officials did not release all public documents he requested about the controversial video system.

House Democratic Leader Alexis Simpson and Senate Democratic Leader Rebecca Perkins Kwoka wrote the Judicial Conduct Committee Thursday seeking public disclosure under the Court’s rules of any…

The war of words — and records — escalated last month between the city of Lowell and one of its biggest commercial property developers, Markley Lowell LLC, which operates a 352,000-square-foot data…

Whether by choice or by layoff, independent reporters are increasingly turning to the newsletter format as a container for their journalism. As a solo newsletter operator, you’ll be faced with a lot o...

This year’s Question 1 would place the Legislature, as well as the governor’s office, under the state’s public records law. Massachusetts is the only state that has exempted all three branches of…

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The Rutland Free Library is launching a Freedom to Read Book Club with a pick that spurred local conflict and national coverage in the 1990s — and holds newfound relevance amid fights over the First…

A battle begun in Lexington continues in a Middlesex County Superior Court.

The news organization was replaced by Real America’s Voice News, a conservative outlet.

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After its public records requests to two quasi-public state agencies were partially denied, North Kingstown has appealed to the Rhode Island Attorney General's office. But advocates familiar with the…

Lawyers were in a New York federal appeals court Tuesday to argue a lawsuit over Vermont’s transformational education policy.

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Thursday to temporarily restore access to CNN, MS NOW and Politico, after they were banned from covering White House events by President Trump.

I have more details on this morning's First Circuit decision (written by Judge O. Rogeriee Thompson) in Doe v. Smith…

Many senior staff were surprised by the directive, which happened while chief of staff Susie Wiles was out of town.

“The very essence of your profession is exactly the same as that of every United States judicial officer,” Judge William G. Young told journalists. “And it is this: to reach out for the truth.”

The outlets’ workspaces sat empty as press groups and First Amendment experts condemned the ban and called for journalists’ access to be restored.

A federal court has barred the Augusta School Department from enforcing portions of a former public comment policy that was challenged as unconstitutional.

Nicholas Blanchard and the Augusta School Department reached an agreement in August following two months of settlement talks.

The lawsuit referenced an alleged list of 235 terms that "serve as proxies for the disfavored viewpoints" to screen existing grants or applications.

Ballot Question one on the Massachusetts election ballot would make records held by the state legislature and the governor’s office subject to the state’s public records law.

New Hampshire’s Right-to-Know law promises “the greatest possible public access” to government records. Access to these documents is one of the best ways for citizens to verify and ensure their…

The decision came after The Times Record and WMTW sued alleging the police department improperly withheld the public records.

Does the rapper’s ouster constitute a violation of the First Amendment?

A Maine Superior Court judge has ordered the Bath Police Department to release public records with significantly fewer redactions to WMTW and The Times Record after both news organizations filed a…

The motion was filed less than 24 hours before the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the man would have to reveal his identity should the case proceed to trial.

State leaders are cracking down on data center developers’ use of secrecy as a bargaining chip when bringing their projects to town by preventing them from entering into nondisclosure agreements with…

Members of the press, government watchdogs and the merely curious all use Rhode Island’s payroll transparency portal for easy lookup of any state employee’s salary, overtime and other essential wage…

Bad faith can expose a jurisdiction to attorney fees, while willful FOAA violations can bring statutory fines.