After all, six months have passed since the Legislature outrageously voted to exempt itself from the state’s Public Records Act. That provoked an outcry from citizens that led to a veto from the ...

Last month, a Missouri state circuit judge did something nearly unheard of: She punished a public official for flouting transparency laws. State Circuit Judge Patricia Joyce ruled that a Cole County ...

OLYMPIA — A public records task force created after Washington lawmakers attempted to exempt themselves from the state Public Records Act is to convene the first of four meetings on Wednesday. The ...

OLYMPIA — Speaking at a gun-rights rally this weekend in Spokane, state Rep. Matt Shea called journalists “those dirty, godless, hateful people.” Shea, a Republican from Spokane Valley, has long had a ...

This story was reported by The Appeal, a nonprofit criminal justice news outlet. A California Department of Justice narcotics task force commander was fired for misconduct that included property ...

WEST PALM BEACH — Before the Jupiter and Martin County day-spa raids that thrust local law-enforcement efforts against human trafficking into the national spotlight, there were cases such as Alston ...

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee — A task force that's been advising the Knox County Health Department on reopening commerce is subject to public review and scrutiny, and a county lawyer advised the Health ...