Public records

The Louisiana Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in an open-records dispute over documents from a state investigation into the highly…

After 18 months of analysis and 140 public record requests, the (Middletown) Times Herald-Record  on Monday launched a comprehensive database…

The South Dakota Supreme Court decided last week to seal jury records from the public in a bid to protect…

After nearly five years of fighting between the federal government and the American Civil Liberties Union over images of torture…

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

Seven years after the Sept. 11 attacks, The Palm Beach Post reports, a federal court order still bans the release…

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

A Michigan sheriff apparently took Freedom of Information Act denials to a new, unfriendly extreme when he charged a newspaper…

A federal judge has ruled in favor of a Virginia woman who posted on her Web site the Social Security numbers…

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