Public records

Faced with spreading criticism, the mayor of Buffalo agreed Thursday to restore basic crime details that have vanished from the police computer that…

The names of school teachers who are simply accused of sexual misconduct, and not found responsible for it or punished,…

A Tennessee judge ruled on Tuesday that a private prison company based there is subject to public records laws, according to The…

Two U.S. senators introduced legislation this week that would remove the Smithsonian's exemption from the Freedom of Information Act and…

Pennsylvania State University waited three months to publicly report a sexual attack on a female student, originally terming the incident…

The attorney general of Rhode Island filed a lawsuit against the city of Cranston on Wednesday over alleged violations of…

Two Detroit newspapers are fighting indicted Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's attempts to depose their reporters amid his ongoing legal woes.

Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick this week lost one round of the ongoing legal battle in his steamy text-message scandal, when a county judge agreed…

Sixteen years after the rape and murder of a University of Georgia student, with no suspects and no fresh leads in the case, the police files can…

Although most states treat e-mail messages exchanged by government employees like any other government records, Hawaii has no laws that…