Public records

Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum has stepped into the battle of the Florida news organizations against the National College Athletics…

A Washington judge has approved a temporary restraining order blocking the release of a list of petitioners who favor a…

The Justice Department is trying to get a federal judge to withhold from the public for up to a decade…

A local Colorado police department has refused a television station's request for instant messages exchanged between officers, saying they do…

Florida Governor Charlie Crist last week barred two new exemptions from being added to the state's public records law when…

The Louisiana Senate is on deck again to vote on language the House approved for a bill that would publicize…

Open government advocates in Tennessee have narrowly succeeded in blocking passage of a measure that would have barred public access…

The findings of a city-funded investigation into hostile workplace allegations against a judge and his staff are public under Washington…

Maricopa County Sheriff Joseph Arpaio's office will indeed have to pay more than $25,000 to cover a newspaper's attorney's fees in a…

At a hearing today on Capitol Hill, members of Congress focused on the increasing need for the National Archives and…