Learn whether bankruptcies are public records and how to access them. Explore privacy concerns, access restrictions and ...

Here are a dozen recent examples of how our reporters use these laws to shed light on issues of public importance. 1. Records obtained from the Ohio Auditor of State’s Office shed light on an ...

ASHEVILLE - The city of Asheville launched a new public records request portal July 1. The new JustFOIA system is available ...

However, in contrast some states explicitly allows anonymous public records requests. For example the New Jersey case, Scheeler v. Atlantic County Municipal Joint Insurance Fund, ...

In Louisville, Kentucky, for example, open records requests more than doubled in six months, from 955 unfilled requests in May 2023 to more than 2,000 in December 2023. The mayor blamed staff ...

However, there are stipulations around the release of public records, and police often redact portions of these items. In Arizona, for example, officials can redact parts of video recordings to ...

To balance those competing goals of privacy and public access, the CPRA includes numerous exemptions that permit public agencies to refuse disclosure of certain public records. For example ...

For example, a request for any and all records containing any reference to a particular person or subject is overly broad and inappropriate. ... an explanation will be provided. If you are ...

Public records offices gutted in HHS layoffs : ... This can mean documents involving the safety and efficacy of new drugs, for example, or it can mean emails sent and received by agency workers.

Louisiana's public records laws, enacted in 1940, were put in place to ensure that public documents are open to public view. The law allows anyone the ability to request and review documents.

Social media influencer Emilie Kiser's lawsuit pushing to stop the release of public records related to her son's May death is now being litigated in an Arizona court. Kiser's 3-year-old son Trigg ...

The examples are legion, from then-Treasurer Gina Raimondo's refusal to make public the due-diligence reports on her hedge fund gamble to the McKee administration's refusal to give then-Senate ...