Public meetings

The Rules Committee of the Cherokee Nation’s tribal council voted 14-3 Wednesday in favor of changes to the tribe’s Freedom…

The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the state's public records law does not violate the First Amendment speech…

Philadelphia plans to bar reporters from attending a city-run conference this week where public officials will discuss the city’s finances…

The New Hampshire Supreme Court affirmed a lower court's decision to deny a firefighters' association access to redacted portions of…

A Texas appellate court ruled that a state public accounting licensing board that penalized three accountants involved in the Enron…

The Georgia Supreme Court ruled yesterday that state public bodies must record in public meeting minutes the names of those…

The mayor of Hartford unlawfully held closed meetings with a city arena-planning group, according to Connecticut's Freedom of Information Commission.…

 A California school district violated the state’s open meeting law by raising its superintendent’s salary during a closed-door meeting, but…

A sheriff's deputy on Friday asked a local reporter to leave a meeting with school board members, schools officials and…

It's a sunny summer for government in New York, where Gov. David Paterson has signed off on a bundle of updates to the…