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The Asbury Park Press reports it has won an appeal for details of a 2007 sexual harrassment settlement between Monmouth County and a…

The Judicial Conference of the United States has adopted a new policy of publicly acknowledging the existence of so-called “super-sealed”…

In refusing to hear the latest appeal from state Republicans on the issue, New Jersey’s highest court has ensured that e-mail…

The Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University's School of Communications just launched a new tool that makes it easier to check up…

State lawmakers in Florida are working on a laundry list of potential new exemptions to that state's open-records laws, including…

The CIA refuses to release from its clutches details in a 45-year-old memo on President John F. Kennedy's assassination, even though they've been…

A state shield law passed a committee in the Texas Legislature on Monday, the Corpus Christi Caller-Times reported.

Faced with newspaper scrutiny, judges in two Arkansas counties have agreed to reopen arrest affidavits in criminal cases -- records…

A Tennessee state court refused to unmask an anonymous blogger last week, citing the recent Maryland high court decision that upheld…

A Pennsylvania county is working on  making civil records not only easier to access but also, in most cases, free. Anyone with a…