You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. As Maine undergoes a $15 million project to digitize its court records, open ...

After all, six months have passed since the Legislature outrageously voted to exempt itself from the state’s Public Records Act. That provoked an outcry from citizens that led to a veto from the ...

Task & Purpose has been refused access to a public record by the Marine Corps. The document is not classified, secret, or otherwise sensitive, but the service has gone to unusual lengths to keep it ...

Last month, a Missouri state circuit judge did something nearly unheard of: She punished a public official for flouting transparency laws. State Circuit Judge Patricia Joyce ruled that a Cole County ...

OLYMPIA — Speaking at a gun-rights rally this weekend in Spokane, state Rep. Matt Shea called journalists “those dirty, godless, hateful people.” Shea, a Republican from Spokane Valley, has long had a ...

EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., will lead a new task force focused on the declassification of federal secrets – including records related to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, ...

WEST PALM BEACH — Before the Jupiter and Martin County day-spa raids that thrust local law-enforcement efforts against human trafficking into the national spotlight, there were cases such as Alston ...

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee — A task force that's been advising the Knox County Health Department on reopening commerce is subject to public review and scrutiny, and a county lawyer advised the Health ...