Former New York City Police Department officers and firefighters who say Mayor Bill de Blasio put them in harm’s way by unsealing discipline records advanced their claims to the Second circuit on Tuesday.
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California law expanded the public’s access to police records in 2019, but one court ruling has exempted the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department.
Read morePolice officers have a “non-trivial” privacy interest in their unit assignments, the Nevada Supreme Court ruled, so the Las Vegas Review-Journal cannot request information regarding police unit assignments related to sex-trafficking cases without showing it will advance a significant public interest.
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A federal appeals court has sided with more than a dozen members of Congress in their attempt to get their hands on details about the Trump Organization’s lease on the luxury hotel located in the capital’s historic Old Post Office building.
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The U.S. government need not release statistics on guns used in suicides or attempted suicides, the Second Circuit ruled Wednesday, reversing what had been a victory for gun-regulation advocates.
Read moreA federal court in New York rejected the federal government’s attempt to not specifically identify the tape of the killing of Jamal Khashoggi in a Vaughn index. President Donald Trump’s statement admitting that U.S. intelligence agencies had reviewed the tape and that the government is in possession of it, and another statement made by Vice President Mike Pence, preclude the government from claiming that identifying the tape would reveal “undisclosed classified information.”
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The House of Representatives passed the long-awaited Open Courts Act on Tuesday endorsing the notion that the public should have access to newly filed court records when the clerk first receives them.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit held that the Center for Investigative Reporting is entitled to make a FOIA request seeking records of weapon ownership from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. The so-called Tiahrt Rider of the Consolidated Appropriations Acts of 2005, 2006, 2010, and 2012 does not exempt the data from public disclosure.
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On Thursday, Courthouse News, with the help of the Local Legal Initiative of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of Press, filed a motion to unseal Georgia Senator David Perdue’s deposition and other documents in litigation stemming from his time as CEO of Dollar General.
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The Ohio Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday that footage from a courthouse’s exterior camera that captured a judge being shot should be released under the state’s public records law.
Read moreThe Southern Poverty Law Center claims the sheriff of Tuscaloosa County has violated the Alabama Open Records Act by refusing to release information about Covid-19 cases in the county jail.
Read moreTwo Nebraska taxpayers accuse the Nebraska Environmental Trust Board of incorrectly recording — and refusing to correct — a vote that shifted funding to a large ethanol project, which was 78th on the board’s list of funding priorities.
Read moreIn a public records dispute, a federal court in Washington denied anti-abortion activist David Daleiden’s motion to decertify a class of individuals whose names are contained in University of Washington documents that relate to the purchase, transfer or procurement of fetal tissue.
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Clamoring to access a sealed declaration in the original fight for former FBI Director James Comey’s memos, CNN warned the D.C. Circuit on Tuesday that judiciary must resist pressure to become a “sidekick” of President Donald Trump.
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Citing a pattern of consistent stonewalling, investigative journalists have taken the Oakland Police Department to court to force it to comply with state public records laws.
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After decades of study, the National Cancer Institute said Tuesday that some excess cancer cases likely resulted from exposure to radioactive fallout that wafted across New Mexico after the U.S. government detonated the first atomic bomb in 1945. However, the exact number is unknown.
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New York City’s pro-transparency law allowing for the release of police disciplinary records can proceed in mostly full effect, a federal judge announcing in a conference on Friday.
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An Arizona city official making $107,000 a year resigned after an investigation found he used city workers for an outside job involving an attempt to secure irrigation water for farmers who paid him with a goat.
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Los Angeles County’s rollout of a $300 million custom-made voting system this past March stalled voters at polling places for hours and left a lot of unanswered questions.
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Skewering Ghislaine Maxwell’s “eleventh-hour” request to block the release of her deposition, a federal judge on Wednesday found little substance to the jailed socialite’s claim that her criminal case provides a new reason for secrecy.
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