Notwithstanding the Freedom of Information Act’s primary goal of promoting transparency in government decision-making, the Supreme Court on Thursday ruled by a 7-to-2 vote that the public policy of ...

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee’s office has used a controversial public records exemption to deny over 60 requests from local journalists, residents, and state representatives since 2019, which experts say ...

As he pushed earlier this year to curtail the access Louisiana residents have to public records, Gov. Jeff Landry drew a culinary analogy, saying restaurant patrons don’t need to see where dinner ...

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Faircloth, who also represented DOE in the News-Star case, did not respond to repeated calls seeking comment. Now, it seems almost everything Jindal wants kept from public view is declared to be ...

Many of our fellow San Jose District 8 and 10 residents are outraged at the lack of honest communication and transparency demonstrated by the San Jose City Council in the process to fill the vacancies ...