Public records

The position of public records ombudsman is rapidly becoming a regular feature of state open records laws.  Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Washington, Arizona and…

The Associated Press takes a comprehensive look at former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani's record on openness and finds…

Mel Gibson's booze-fueled, anti-Semitic outburst during his DUI arrest last August is old news, to be sure. But the Associated Press reported…

New York's highest court strongly bolstered the presumption of disclosure at it applies to the state's public records in a…

U.S. Senate leaders put forth a new version of a bill Tuesday aimed at reforming the Freedom of Information Act with the…

A Seattle community group achieved a multi-layer victory, the Seattle Times reports, by securing the disclosure of e-mail messages from the…

After recently losing a Freedom of Information Act case related to the dispersal of Hurricane Katrina relief aid, the federal…

Amazingly, even after six miners and three rescuers died in the Crandall Canyon mine out in Utah last August, one…

During today's Des Moines Register-sponsored debate in Iowa, Hillary Clinton responded to a question about the secrecy that surrounded the…

In an interesting use of editorial discretion, the San Bernardino County Sun decided to remove the names on a list…