The ruling stems from a case involving a Montgomery County Board of Elections official who forwarded an email with a legal memo to his personal account and then to a political party chairman. Critics ...

CINCINNATI (WXIX) - The Ohio Supreme Court won’t reconsider its recent ruling on a public records case, delivering a blow to government transparency, newly filed court records show. This is the result ...

A recent Ohio Supreme Court case stemming out of Montgomery County threatens to drastically limit Ohioans’ access to public records after the high court determined a public official’s private messages ...

(TNS) — Right now, without getting up from your chair or leaving your house, you can search and review court records related to the 2020 Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd. Minnesota courts ...

(The Center Square) – Wisconsin public officials cannot hide private text messages and messages on private messaging apps involving public business and they are accountable for legal fees in cases ...

In a decision on Sept. 12, a federal judge in California ruled that the press and public have a First Amendment right of access to military court proceedings and related records and that “[t]he ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (CN) — A government watchdog group asked the Washington Supreme Court on Thursday to rethink an exemption to the state’s public records disclosure law after a state agency denied it ...

At a time when state lawmakers seem intent on weakening Louisiana’s public-records laws, a recent ruling from the Louisiana Supreme Court should serve to shore them up. The decision, unanimous on two ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. More than two years after ProPublica sued the Navy over its ...

The battle over whether Washington lawmakers are entitled to shield certain records from the public using “legislative ...