The New York Civil Liberties Union is suing the NYPD for the release of more disciplinary records of officers it requested in the spring, arguing the public database currently available offers an ...

Matt Earle is an entrepreneur based in Toronto, Canada, and is the President of Reputation.ca, an online reputation management company. Managing your reputation may be simply removing yourself from ...

Grieving the loss of a loved one is hard enough, and families are lucky if they're able to prepare in advance for the worst. What most families aren't prepared for, though, are the predatory calls and ...

Public records are one of the few ways that criminal justice reporters can learn more about what happens in prisons, jails, youth detention facilities and ICE detention centers. There are few other ...

A private company was thanked by cops for helping identify a suspect in the Faith Hedgepeth case. But is law enforcement’s use of public DNA databases ethical? This is the N&O’s special report. When ...

Kyle York has long had concerns about how business is done at Lexington Public Schools. Dissatisfied with how the district supported his daughter with dyslexia, York began requesting a series of ...

Two bills that would prevent the public from obtaining information about government employees passed a Georgia Senate committee Monday over the objection of open government advocates. Senate Bill 215 ...

Kentucky’s Open Records Act mandates public agencies share existing records on request. Agencies must respond within five business days, with limited legal exemptions allowed. Citizens can appeal ...

This story was produced as part of Sunshine Week, a nonpartisan collaboration among groups in the journalism, civic, education, government and private sectors that shines a light on the importance of ...

The Ministry of Justice and Digital Affairs plans to require public information systems handling personal data to adopt a tracker showing who has accessed it. A data tracker is a software solution ...