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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Current proposals to rein in bad judges and bad pre-schools in Louisiana are a bit too extreme, but the legislative process ...