Open records

Journal moves to unseal secret tobacco company settlement02/12/96 NEVADA--Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal, filed an…

Couple fighting neglect charges denied access to investigative files11/20/95 SOUTH CAROLINA--A couple who claimed an old grudge resulted in false…

Judge charges TV station violated confidentiality rule 10/09/95 WISCONSIN--Saying that a television station violated a juvenile court's confidentiality rule in…

Court finds common law right-of-access to computerized tax rolls08/14/95 NEW JERSEY--The common law--but not the state open records act-- requires…

State need not create record it doesn't ordinarily keep07/31/95 NEW YORK--The state Insurance Department need not comply with a state…

University must release NCAA charges before hearing05/30/95 ALABAMA--The University of Alabama must release 12 pages of enclosures from a National…

Newspaper wins right to view city agreements, council minutes05/16/95 MICHIGAN--Minutes of meetings during which the city council approves settlement agreements,…

Clinton overhauls document classification procedures04/18/95 WASHINGTON, D.C.--Vowing to bring secrecy rules into line "with our vision of American democracy in…

Arizona reporter granted access to county e-mail04/04/95 ARIZONA--Joseph Burchell, a reporter for the Tucson Arizona Star, will receive the 1993…

Clinton trust fund operations to remain secret03/07/95 WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The secret operations of a legal trust fund established to…