A Michigan Court of Claims judge ruled that state policing regulators can keep secret the names and employment histories of current and former officers throughout the state, but Metro Times and Invisi...

A court sided with The Badger Project and the Invisible Institute in their lawsuit demanding a list of all police in the state from the Department of Justice, which had repeatedly rejected requests fo...

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Part of a lawsuit filed by a private school against the Oklahoma State Board of Education and then-state Superintendent Ryan Walters can continue.

Journalism relies on public records, but transparency laws are weakening nationwide, with longer response times, high fees and more frequent rejections. Agencies know that few newsrooms can research…

The Open Courts Compendium is a guide to court access issues for journalists, with specific information for each state and federal circuit.

The failure of Grossmont officials to provide these records underscores some of the limits of California’s public record law — and raises issues now being litigated before the state’s top cou…

A state official says the contracts contained "proprietary information," so they were scrubbed and replaced with bare-bones summaries.

Without reliable information about what the government is doing, or failing to do, the public is unable to conduct oversight and ensure accountability.

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The proposal would also clarify when and how the school board should hire outside lawyers.

'The public and the city workers are dragged through this bi-weekly War of the Poses and really do struggle to keep up with the usual business of a very, very busy city government'

After decades when few law enforcement officers in Virginia lost the right to serve in sworn positions, recent reforms have brought dramatic increases in decertifications

The Air Force may have been caught off guard or was just unprepared when President Donald Trump said the next generation fighter jet would be called F-47, documents obtained by FOIA Files suggest.

The Washington Post FOIA director Nate Jones says journalists can use public records to fight misinformation and deepfakes.

This investigation was reported in collaboration with the Chicago Tribune. In a flurry of contracts inked a decade ago, some of Illinois’ most powerful

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A judge ordered Aurora to release all unedited body-worn camera footage of police shooting and killing Kilyn Lewis, finding that the city denied 9NEWS’ requests for the video in violation of Colorado'...

Lawmakers have advanced several bills that could limit which records are accessible to the public or alter how public meetings are conducted.

A department that oversees dozens of state-owned office buildings will not disclose how many state employees were present in buildings last year

The House is considering a bill that would allow the Legislature to write its own rules for disclosing public records.

Rhode Island Senate Committee on Rules, Government Ethics and Oversight will hold an hearing Monday on a proposal to put written public testimony on the General Assembly website.

Superintendent Ryan Walters faced pushback from new State Board of Education members over an immigration rule at a Feb. 27, 2025, meeting.

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A Mississippi state judge ordered a newspaper to remove an editorial criticizing city officials from its website, a move that First Amendment experts say

A bill that extends Colorado Open Records Act response times for public and commercial requesters won the support of a state Senate committee.

The Regional Transportation District is considering capping fees for public records requests from the news media.

Two agency sources say their emails now include a “sensitive but unclassified” designation.

For Virginians seeking public records from universities, police departments, or government agencies, the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) ensures access — but that access often comes with a hefty pri...

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Members of the House of Delegates are now considering a bill that would create new limits on how much government agencies can charge for a public records request.

Open government advocates warned the measure would have an alarming effect on government transparency and accountability.

The Montana Supreme Court Thursday ruled that Gov. Greg Gianforte may be allowed to withhold certain documents from public review. The case centered on the question of whether or not the governor has ...

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