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In oral arguments today, U.S. Supreme Court justices questioned whether access to public records is a fundamental right in a case that will determine whether a state can prohibit non-citizens from obtaining its records.
However, the justices expressed skepticism over whether the purported administrative burdens states face when responding to records requests by non-citizens actually exist.
Nonprofit investigative newsroom ProPublica has launched a project that asks volunteers in five states that prohibit out-of-state public-records requests to help the media outlet gain access to documents.
New York-based ProPublica is asking citizens of Tennessee, Virginia, Arkansas, Georgia and Delaware to sign up for its Reporting Network Doc Squad and lend a hand with open-records requests to those state governments.
