After all, six months have passed since the Legislature outrageously voted to exempt itself from the state’s Public Records Act. That provoked an outcry from citizens that led to a veto from the ...

After failing to convince a trial court of their need for secrecy, Washington state lawmakers rightly were blasted in the court of public opinion when they took an outrageous vote in February to ...

Last month, a Missouri state circuit judge did something nearly unheard of: She punished a public official for flouting transparency laws. State Circuit Judge Patricia Joyce ruled that a Cole County ...

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee — A task force that's been advising the Knox County Health Department on reopening commerce is subject to public review and scrutiny, and a county lawyer advised the Health ...

WEST PALM BEACH — Before the Jupiter and Martin County day-spa raids that thrust local law-enforcement efforts against human trafficking into the national spotlight, there were cases such as Alston ...