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Read moreThe Los Angeles Times need not disclose its reporters’ sources and unpublished information as requested by Los Angeles County amid a fight over access to public records in the Sheriff’s Department and other county agencies, an LA County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.
Read moreIn more than six months since a receiving a request for thousands of documents, the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office has provided just a single list of employees – a clear violation of the Arizona Public Records Law, the American Civil Liberties Union and a freelance journalist say in a lawsuit filed Wednesday.
Read moreresident Trump’s latest financial disclosure report is expected to provide a rare glimpse into whether his presidency has helped or hurt his hotels, golf resorts and other parts of his business empire.
Read moreThrowing more fuel into a blazing fight between congressional Democrats and the Trump administration, the White House on Wednesday pushed back against a sweeping documents request that a panel sent in March.
Read moreThe California Reinvestment Commission sued the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and its director for failing to collect and publish data on loan applications for women-owned, minority-owned and small businesses, as required by the Dodd-Frank Act.
Read morePresident Trump and senior White House adviser Jared Kushner have failed to keep records of meetings and correspondence with world leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and members of the Saudi royal court, a nonprofit watchdog claimed Tuesday in a lawsuit against the Trump administration.
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