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NEW YORK--State police officials in mid-August removed news photos, which they had used without permission, from a police web site,…

MISSISSIPPI-- The state Supreme Court in Jackson in early August threw out a $600,000 jury award against the Northeast (Tupelo)…

MINNESOTA--The "strong and clear" presumption in the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act that government data is public unless otherwise designated…

WASHINGTON, D.C.--Department of Commerce Secretary William Daley in mid-August announced that he will ask Congress to dismantle the National Technical…

LOUISIANA--The state legislature in Baton Rouge has made "video voyeurism" a crime that can be punished by fines and imprisonment.…

NINTH CIRCUIT--Prisoners do not have a First Amendment right to receive sexually explicit material, the U.S. Court of Appeals in…

MISSISSIPPI--The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks must provide a list of employee names and the accumulated comp time…

CALIFORNIA--The state Supreme Court in San Francisco in late July unanimously upheld the public's right to be present during civil…

NORTH CAROLINA--In late July, the state Supreme Court in Raleigh decided two cases in favor of prosecutors trying to compel…

NINTH CIRCUIT--In the Freedom of Information Act, Congress wrote "a tough statute on agency delay," the U.S. Court of Appeals…