Accountability systems should reflect the prodigious influence these companies have over our lives. Laura Manley is the ...

joined forces last year to improve government transparency with the 2007 Openness Promotes Effectiveness in our National (OPEN) Government Act, the first meaningful reforms to the Freedom of ...

The original Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) of 1966—the law under which many of those redacted documents are obtained—was the "product of years of slow campaigning by a network of ...

In furthering this policy, FOIA requires that the law be interpreted liberally, in favor of access, and that any exemption allowing public records to be withheld must be interpreted narrowly. Submit a ...

The Arkansas Freedom of Information Task Force held their first meeting since the start of the regular session of the 95th ...

Axios Visuals President Donald Trump got more Detroit votes in November's election than any Republican candidate since 2000, per data obtained by Axios. Kamala Harris, meanwhile, garnered fewer votes ...

Many legislators who support reforms to the federal Freedom of Information Act hold leadership positions in the new Congress. From… Many legislators who support reforms to the federal Freedom of ...

The government spent over $1.1 million in 2023 fighting lawsuits filed by citizens for Freedom of Information Act disclosures. They are following the US tradition of secrecy.

On July 1, a change to the Freedom of Information Act law allowed the board to hold the hearing privately, before coming out into a public session to take official action. “It totally vindicated ...

Inspection reports obtained by television news station WTVR show Richmond’s Department of Public Utilities (DPU) had previously been cited for failures in emergency planning and deteriorating ...