Public records

The Pennsylvania Senate today unanimously passed a bill to improve the state's open records law. 

A Vermont District Court judge said that he thinks video and audio recordings of interactions the police had with a…

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"…

In response to harsh criticism over his administration's e-mail retention policies, Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt is instituting a new e-mail archive system…

It's shocking and frankly sad to finally learn what the owners of the Crandall Canyon Mine knew or should have known about the…

The University of Virginia has won the support of two state lawmakers to introduce legislation that would allow the school…

Texas Sen. John Cornyn (R) said Tuesday that he intends to sponsor legislation to make government spending information more accessible…

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

The Small Newspaper Group recently completed a seven-month investigation that examined Illinois' teacher disciplinary system, and filed 300 public records…