Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you wonder how open government laws affect you, think about these basics: The local taxes we pay. The roads we drive on. Even, ...

A state law meant to protect crime victims is routinely used by police departments here and across Ohio to withhold from the public details of deadly officer-involved shootings. State lawmakers ...

Nearly 70% of investigative journalists in the U.S. reported “limited access to records or sources” as their greatest barrier in doing accountability journalism, according to a survey from the ...

Commentaries are opinion pieces contributed by readers and newsmakers. VTDigger strives to publish a variety of views from a broad range of Vermonters. Commentaries give voice to community members and ...

Without warning or a word to city officials, the Florida Department of Transportation sent work crews to Orlando with a directive: Blacken out the rainbow-colored crosswalk that marked where first ...

A Marshalltown man with a lengthy history of filing extensive public records requests from government entities around the ...

As local units of government report an influx of time-consuming public records requests they suspect of being phishing attempts, Hoosier lawmakers are cracking down. “This bill addresses a real and ...

PUBLIC RECORDS ️ A larger-than-normal group of bills seeks to place exemptions on who or what citizens can request public ...