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 ...

Last month's column dealt with the philosophy behind open meetings laws and why public officials should conduct the public's business in public, not in private. Open meetings laws like the federal ...

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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 ...

Earlier this month, Gov. Bill Lee's administration denied access to documents recommendations made by 22 state agencies on how to improve service in Tennessee's rural areas. The administration denied ...

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 ...

A privilege that protects the candid exchange of opinion among government decisionmakers is limited and must be examined on a case-by-case basis, the Alaska Supreme Court ruled Aug. 15. Aug. 19, 2003 ...