An Oklahoma nonprofit has sued state Superintendent Ryan Walters and two state boards, claiming open records and Open Meeting ...

Georgia lawmakers formed a last minute proposal to limit public access to records about state lawmakers’ communications and ...

A late-emerging proposal in the Georgia Legislature would limit what the public can access in police reports and ...

Phyllis Zorn, a reporter for the Record, requested the text messages from the city through the Kansas Open Records Act (KORA) on October 19, 2023. The request came two months after Cody and the ...

“We put in some Open Records Act requests to find out why she was added to it, who else is on the advisory council, what meetings they have had, and what decisions they have made,” McCarty sai ...

Colorado is the latest in a growing list of states including Nebraska, Georgia, Oklahoma, Ohio and Virginia to pass state ...

Dozens of public officials in Lancaster County have said they don’t conduct government business over message-deleting apps ...

A Savannah attorney has filed a complaint against the City of Savannah, accusing the city of failing to provide records.

New Mexico’s open records law blocks public access to ... considered public record under the state Inspection of Public Records Act. In seeking to block the release of records, estate ...

As BGA Policy has consistently highlighted, Illinois’ judicial branch is not subject to FOIA, leaving entities like juvenile ...

The lawsuit also contends the state agency has failed to comply with the Open Records Act by withholding requested public documents regarding the formation, membership selection and activities of ...

“They do this every time.” Lawmakers are mostly exempt from the state’s Open Records Act, but even fewer records would be available to the public under the bill. People wouldn’t be able to ...