The nonprofit Western Values Project sued a North Dakota conservancy district for records pertaining to its hiring of now-Interior Secretary David Bernhardt as legal representation and information about a meeting between then-U.S. Rep. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., and then-Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke.
Read moreExtinguishing a veritable media frenzy Wednesday, a Florida judge temporarily blocked the release of video that police claim shows New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft being sexually pleasured by a spa worker.
Read moreThe Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday the state’s supplier of execution drugs can remain a secret, concluding a disclosure would subject the compounding pharmacy’s employees to risk of physical harm.
Read moreSea Shepherd Legal brought a federal complaint to access public records on the refusal of government agencies to release documents on protections for the New Zealand Maui dolphin.
Read morePress and free speech advocates blasted California Attorney General Xavier Becerra on Monday over his approach to government transparency and law enforcement accountability.
Read moreThe D.C. Circuit affirmed dismissal of a challenge to financial disclosure reports Donald Trump filed when he was a candidate, as the Mandamus Act applies only to duties related to an official’s time in public office.
Read moreIt was a tale of two San Diegos this week as a state assemblyman Thursday introduced two bills aimed at increasing government transparency following the public backlash which led a state senator earlier in the week to kill a bill he’d written with the city attorney which would have made it harder to recover attorney’s fees under the California Public Records Act.
Read moreA California appellate court declined to take up an appeal from a Contra Costa County police union on Tuesday who were told by a state judge last month that police misconduct records created before 2019 can be released to the public.
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Read moreThe Office of the D.C. Chief Medical Examiner is considering an appeal after a judge ordered the release of an autopsy report in the unusual 2015 hotel death of one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s top lieutenants.
Read moreThe California Supreme Court quietly denied a Los Angeles police union’s request Wednesday to review a lower court’s ruling that a law unsealing police misconduct records can be applied retroactively.
Read moreIn a bid to shift the focus on Russian political meddling, House Republicans called Tuesday for access to briefings on the 2016 election conducted by members of the Obama administration.
Read moreSaying the changes could open the process up to politicization and unnecessary litigation, a bipartisan group of lawmakers on Tuesday took aim at new rules the Interior Department has proposed for handling public records requests.
Read moreA San Diego Superior Court judge Friday afternoon joined the chorus of judges across California who have found in legal challenges to the state’s new police transparency law on personnel records the statute applies retroactively to records from before Jan. 1.
Read moreA judge in Southern California lifted a temporary seal on Orange County police misconduct records Thursday, striking another blow to police unions who’ve argued in courts across the state that unsealing the records violates officers’ constitutional rights to privacy.
Read moreA California law requiring public disclosure of police misconduct records has been challenged by police unions in courts across the state, but received support Wednesday from Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva.
Read moreA San Diego lawmaker is trying to complicate the already convoluted process that reporters and Californians must take to view public records and make it harder for requesters to recoup attorney’s fees when they prevail over the government in court.
Read moreA California judge lifted a temporary seal on Los Angeles police misconduct records Tuesday, striking a blow to police unions that say unsealing the records violates officers’ constitutional rights to privacy.
Read moreA California judge indicated Friday that he will likely decline a Los Angeles police union’s request to shield police misconduct records subject to unsealing under a new state law.
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