Police get bigger open records loophole in bill Gov. Beshear allows to become law
House Bill 520 widens the Kentucky Open Records Act’s law enforcement exemption at the request of police. Beshear allowed it ...
Kentucky bill enhancing police protections from open records requests becomes law without governor action
Lawmakers argued that revealing the identity of informants or witnesses connected with investigations could cause harm to the ...
Does Virginia law sealing court records from the public’s eye violate the First Amendment?
Legislation that would shield thousands of past court cases from public view could violate the First Amendment’s right of ...
You had questions about public records. We asked a reporter and a legal expert to weigh in.
Are nonprofits subject to open records? How much would it cost to take an open records case to court? See our answers to ...
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OKLAHOMA VOICE: Lawmakers advance bill giving Oklahoma AG power to enforce Open Records Act violations
The Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office could soon have the power to investigate delayed or denied open records requests after the state House advanced legislation Tuesday.
Lifting the ‘veil of secrecy’ in CT. How open government laws made a difference.
Connecticut’s FOI law allows access to many records and meetings. If the FOI law were not enacted, members of the public ...
Judge says he will order government to preserve Signal messages about Houthi military strike
A federal judge says he will order the Trump administration to preserve records of a text message chat in which senior ...
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Major changes coming to Utah's government records access law
Gov. Spencer Cox said Thursday he plans to sign several bills that will bring big changes to Utah's government records access ...
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You had questions about public records. We asked a reporter and a legal expert to weigh in.
Open records are one of the most powerful tools available to reporters — and the public. But how to take advantage of Wisconsin's public records law isn't always clear. On Monday, Milwaukee ...
Ryan Walters gave employees $600K in bonuses, including out-of-state Matt Langston
Matt Langston is one of the agency’s highest-paid employees, earning approximately $130,000 in 2024 — an estimate due to ...
What is Signal? 5 things to know about the app used in Trump administration war plans leak
On Monday it was revealed that top Trump administration officials were using a commercial messaging app to plan military ...
How a WA city’s war with its own council member could chip away at public-records access
In 2019, in response to the #MeToo movement, the Legislature passed new exemptions to parts of the Public Records Act: Public ...