Public records

The Department of Defense does not have to publicly disclose documents related to the formation of special military commissions created to try suspected terrorists…

Washington State's Department of Social and Health Services has been sued over failing to disclose records under the public records…

A former deputy attorney for Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt has filed a lawsuit alleging that he was wrongfully fired for bringing to light a…

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

New Mexico's attorney general filed a motion Wednesday to intervene in a lawsuit on behalf of the public's right to…

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

The Supreme Court of Mississippi will decide whether records of dental experiments and other research conducted on animals by Mississippi…

An Iowa county prosecutor has told the University of Iowa to ignore newspapers' requests for public records related to sexual…

The dead hand of practical obscurity has surfaced in a new South Dakota bill that seeks to remove birth dates from…

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