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In an abrupt turnaround from Bush administration policy, the Treasury Department has released details of its contracts with banks that received government money as part of the ongoing financial industry bailout.
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner also announced plans for increased transparency in future bailout transactions.
A group of Arkansas judges have voted not to stop sealing probable-cause arrest affidavits, even if they are considered public records, The Associated Press reports.
President Barack Obama, on his first full day in office, sent a strong message of his intention to run a transparent government, directing agencies to release information to the public when possible and rolling out a new White House Web site geared toward communication and transparency.
Phoenix police are using a new policy to withhold information on crime victims and suspects from the public, including the addresses of reported crimes. The change is designed to put the police in compliance with a state law making it the government’s obligation to prevent identity theft, The Arizona Republic reported.
The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a pair of bills aimed at transparency in the White House -- particularly for presidents gearing up to exit it, The Associated Press reported.
Routine delays in the court system have prompted the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette to drop its pursuit of jail records for a suspect in the slaying of a Little Rock news anchor.
A new government investigations board in Wisconsin isn’t releasing the results of most of its inquiries, according to documents provided to The Associated Press.
The AP reported that the state Government Accountability Board, which was created a year ago to investigate government corruption, has only made public the results of 7 out of 29 completed investigations.
Gov. Matt Blunt will give the Missouri attorney general's office thousands of pages of email records to settle a lawsuit against his office alleging he "knowingly and purposely" violated open records laws by deleting email messages.
Ohio officials were ordered Tuesday by the state Supreme Court to search for deleted e-mail messages.
The case, brought by The Toledo Blade, involved an open records law request for e-mail sent by Seneca County commissioners regarding the demolition of a historic courthouse.
The county gave the newspaper some messages, but the Blade sought copies of other e-mail that had been deleted.
An Arkansas judge this week refused to back off a court order sealing jail records in the case of a man charged with killing a Little Rock anchorwoman -- even though state law says such records are public.
