Last week, in Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s first signed opinion, the U.S. Supreme Court expanded the deliberative process privilege under exception 5 of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), limiting ...
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 ...
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As he pushed earlier this year to curtail the access Louisiana residents have to public records, Gov. Jeff Landry drew a culinary analogy, saying restaurant patrons don’t need to see where dinner ...
California Governor Gavin Newsom in January 2024. (Governor's Press Office via Courthouse News) SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) — A Sacramento, California, television reporter scored a win in court Tuesday ...
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 ...
Faircloth, who also represented DOE in the News-Star case, did not respond to repeated calls seeking comment. Now, it seems almost everything Jindal wants kept from public view is declared to be ...
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 ...
Many of our fellow San Jose District 8 and 10 residents are outraged at the lack of honest communication and transparency demonstrated by the San Jose City Council in the process to fill the vacancies ...