Public officials

When it comes to one of the more bizarre FOIA b(6) redactions you'll ever see, a picture will speak much more effectively…

Following a judge's ruling Tuesday morning, Detroit citizens will now get to view more of the sordid details of their mayor's…

The Detroit Free Press' marvelous investigation into the veracity, or lack thereof, of testimony by Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and Chief…

In a strange development within an even stranger case, a Tennessee chancellor ruled that a tape featuring the "graphic fantasies"…

West Virginia's Supreme Court agreed to hear the city of Charleston’s appeal of a case involving a newspaper's Freedom of…

A nonprofit environmental group is suing the U.S. Department of the Interior's Office of the Inspector General under the Freedom…

The Media Law Prof Blog reports that a Georgia state appellate court upheld a summary judgment holding in a libel…

The University of North Dakota's Presidential Search Committee wants the State Board of Higher Education to lobby for weaker open meetings…

Utah state archivist Patricia Smith-Mansfield served the public well by standing up to pressure from former Gov. Mike Leavitt to pull from…

In an interesting use of editorial discretion, the San Bernardino County Sun decided to remove the names on a list…