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Alaska Republican watchdog Andree McLeod filed a lawsuit Friday seeking another round of Gov. Sarah Palin’s e-mail messages and a…

The Iowa City Press-Citizen is forging ahead with an open records suit against the University of Iowa.   In response to…

A West Virginia judge ruled Wednesday that even the state Supreme Court is subject to public records laws, just as…

 The Ohio Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday on whether a deleted government e-mail file qualifies as a public document…

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Beset by newsroom cutbacks and declining revenue, news groups are fighting fewer battles over public records -- and government officials are…

Faced with efforts in Congress to pull the Smithsonian Institution in under the Freedom of Information Act, the institution's new head told…

Thanks in part to a state Freedom of Information Act request by the Detroit Free Press, Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick agreed…

With the explicit intention of keeping candidate applications out of the public eye, the University of Arkansas is using a private search…

The Albany Times Union filed a lawsuit in New York state court Wednesday seeking the release of an electronic copy…