Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and the National Security Archive sued Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in federal court, claiming he illegally refuses to document State Department policies, decision and essential transactions, actions that are “directly related to President Donald J. Trump’s violations of the Presidential Records Act.”
Read moreIn an ongoing dispute over public access, Brigham Young University filed a complaint Wednesday seeking to stop a newspaper from obtaining emails from the school’s police department, claiming that they are considered private.
Read moreTired and frustrated, federal judges are strategically ordering government agencies to pick up the pace in responding to Freedom of Information Act requests to pressure Congress into allocating more funding to offices tasked with releasing records to the public.
Read moreAmerican Oversight sued the State Department in federal court for records on Rudy Giuliani’s and attorneys Victoria Toensing’s and Joseph diGenova’s communications with State Department officials on “any … effort to encourage the Ukrainian government to investigate any matter related to former Vice President Joseph Biden or his son Hunter Biden.”
Read moreAn attorney representing the White House refused Tuesday to guarantee a federal judge that communications between President Donald Trump and foreign leaders will be preserved.
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Oregon Governor Kate Brown appointed the state’s first public records advocate in 2018 as part of a campaign to improve transparency, but her office stymied the chance of that happening, according to advocate Ginger McCall, who said in her resignation letter Monday that she was pressured to act secretly in the governor’s best interests.
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Police commissioners in San Francisco Monday attempted to craft a policy that adheres to a new state law requiring the disclosure of police misconduct files while also respecting officers’ due process rights.
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A federal judge overseeing Congress’ effort to see President Donald Trump’s federal tax returns declined to get involved in a lawsuit Trump filed as a private citizen this week to keep the House Ways and Means Committee from getting his state tax returns.
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Accusing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of waging war on transparency, a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday claims new rules give the agency more power to deny public records requests, withhold information and prevent appeals against its decisions.
Read moreNew York Times reporter Ken Vogel has been exploring reporting over Ukraine-related lobbying from many dimensions, but a federal judge forestalled one of the avenues of his research on Monday, warning that journalistic scrutiny “could reveal the existence of law enforcement proceedings that are not officially acknowledged or publicly known.”
Read moreThe Los Angeles Times need not disclose its reporters’ sources and unpublished information as requested by Los Angeles County amid a fight over access to public records in the Sheriff’s Department and other county agencies, an LA County judge ruled Tuesday.
Read moreThree nonprofits claim in court that San Francisco refused to provide a memorandum of understanding between the San Francisco Police Department and the FBI regarding the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force and its possible effects on civil rights.
Read moreAttorneys for Southern California housing advocates told a federal judge Wednesday that Orange County officials are unlawfully stifling public comment during open meetings on the homelessness crisis and have moved to destroy public records without creating accessible copies.
Read moreWashington state lawmakers illegally withhold records routinely provided to the public by other elected officials, an attorney for a coalition of news agencies told a panel of the state’s high court justices Tuesday.
Read moreThe Wisconsin Court of Appeals upheld Wednesday an order requiring a lawmaker to provide electronic copies of emails requested under the state’s open-records law instead of giving only hard copies to the journalist who asked for them.
Read moreMichigan authorities investigating Flint’s water crisis have used search warrants to seize from storage the state-owned mobile devices of former Gov. Rick Snyder and 65 other current or former officials, The Associated Press has learned.
Read moreThe federal government for years has kept under wraps the names of hundreds of nursing homes around the country found by inspectors to have serious ongoing health, safety or sanitary problems.
Read moreCalifornia lawmakers Tuesday overwhelmingly approved transparency legislation that will force public agencies to wait at least two years before deleting emails.
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