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A Seattle blogger will receive a $250,000 settlement after suing King County for taking years to disclose election records from the state's…

The Texas House passed a bill Thursday restricting access to school district employees' birth dates and other information, according to…

The Obama administration announced it will finally release photos of abuse in U.S.-run prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a…

Minnesota legislators are at odds over whether to keep information on public employees' on-the-side financial matters out of the public eye, the Star Tribune reports.…

A Myrtle Beach, S.C. blogger lost a $1.8 million libel judgment in January, The Sun News reports, but a pending appeal and questions about possible…

A Wyoming court's policy of banning public access to child endangerment cases files violates the state public records law, a judge…

A bill introduced in California’s legislature would allow state agencies to stop filling the open-records requests of people who have asked for…

Government officials promised Wednesday to stop a proposal by the Federal Aviation Administration to restrict access to a key database…

The U.S. Supreme Court has granted a request from several media outlets to release on the same day the audio recording of…

Roxana Saberi, the Iranian-American journalist sentenced to eight years in prison in Iran, has been granted an appeal.