Eleven years ago next month, advocates of openness, transparency and accountability in state and local government operations trumpeted with great fanfare the launch of the Ohio Checkbook, a website ...

According to a report from the Public Sector Network, in a 2024 survey, there are approximately 15% of Americans who believe the government was transparent to the public. The Sunshine Law helps people ...

It wouldn’t promote fairness, but it would undermine confidence in institutions, media ethics professor Jane E. Kirtley ...

A judge has ruled in favor of the ACLU of Southern California in its longrunning petition for access to use-of-force and officer misconduct records within the Inglewood Police Dept., saying there had ...

Full, unpaywalled access to public records reporting is not only good for democracy, it can increase reader trust and bolster ...

After a notice posted earlier this week on the National Archives at College Park website said public access to the archives would be revoked, confusion ensued as many online speculated that the change ...