Fees

Santa Clara County must pay a nonprofit watchdog group $500,000 to cover its legal fees after a three-year dispute over…

A bill introduced in California’s legislature would allow state agencies to stop filling the open-records requests of people who have asked for…

The federal Bureau of Prisons was ordered by a U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., on Thursday to either look again…

A federal appeals court awarded a Freedom of Information Act requester attorney fees Friday, issuing its second opinion in the…

Despite having enough cash to increase its spending budget to $11 billion, Alaska is offering few cut rates to those requesting public records,The…

Commercial photographers are being charged $500 for a permit to take pictures of buildings in a small, historic town in…

The Advocate [Baton Rouge] must pay more than $200,000 to receive documents it requested related to the Federal Emergency Management…

In Vermont last week, the Senate Government Operations Committee approved a bill setting up a  new committee to examine the…