Last month's column dealt with the philosophy behind open meetings laws and why public officials should conduct the public's business in public, not in private. Open meetings laws like the federal ...
Notwithstanding the Freedom of Information Act’s primary goal of promoting transparency in government decision-making, the Supreme Court on Thursday ruled by a 7-to-2 vote that the public policy of ...
Neil Derry pulled his Sunshine Ordinance off the agenda for last week’s San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors meeting. The measure, which Derry first introduced in March, is intended to make ...
That’s pretty much what a district court judge told the Reno Gazette-Journal when he turned down the newspaper’s public records request for Gov. Jim Gibbons’ e-mails. Judge James Russell said only six ...
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s April 29, 2021, decision in a Right-to-Know Law (the “RTKL”) case has broad ramifications in matters where a state or local governmental agency has contracted with a ...
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee’s office has used a controversial public records exemption to deny over 60 requests from local journalists, residents, and state representatives since 2019, which experts say ...
This article provides a discussion of Justice Amy Coney Barrett's recently-authored opinion in 'Fish and Wildlife Service v. Sierra Club', in which the Supreme Court has construed a key privilege in ...
Current proposals to rein in bad judges and bad pre-schools in Louisiana are a bit too extreme, but the legislative process ...
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