The Trump administration is violating the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by refusing to release files related to Jeffrey ...

West Virginia lawmakers are expanding their rewrite of the state’s Freedom of Information Act, further undermining the law ...

Public access to government records that document the handling of illnesses, faulty products, and safety lapses at health ...

White House resistance to the Freedom of Information Act goes back to its earliest days. President Lyndon B. Johnson, a ...

HB 3412 authorizes the legislature to develop its own rules for fulfilling public records requests. Currently, the ...

Members of the Senate Government Organization Committee agreed Wednesday to keep lawmakers under the same public records rules as other government entities while also increasing the response time and ...

A bill moving in the final two weeks of the 2025 legislative session aims to allow the House of Delegates and state Senate to set their own policies on the kinds of documents made available to the ...

Thus we are always asking for laws and rules that allow for a full-body pat down from time to time. What we don’t always do well is explain to you why it’s a matter of such import. I need to introduce ...

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed 55 bills into law on Thursday. Bills included those covering the Freedom of ...

Top Democrats on the House Judiciary and House Oversight committees have filed a lengthy Freedom of Information Act request about the Department of Government Efficiency.

However, the committee’s strike-and-insert amendment provides stricter guardrails in the FOIA law that could allow state and local governments to avoid compliance, delay responses and charge ...