MADISON – A tool created in the wake of a government transparency scandal that tracked state agencies' handling of requests for public records was quietly eliminated four years ago by Gov. Tony Evers ...

SAN DIEGO (CNS) - A new San Diego County website was launched to help people submit public record requests, track their progress and see if the records are already available. The website features a ...

A website residents can use to track Montgomery County court cases or gather court records was upgraded this month. The website, pro.mcohio.org, saw its updated version go live on Aug. 14. The website ...

In September 2023, security researcher Jason Parker received an urgent message from an activist who had stumbled across a massive flaw in the Monroe County, Florida’s court case system: Sealed records ...

Good news for archivists, academics, researchers and journalists: Scraping publicly accessible data is legal, according to a U.S. appeals court ruling. The landmark ruling by the U.S. Ninth Circuit of ...

COVID-19 restrictions are easing at Riverside County courthouses, allowing the public access to courtrooms and clerk counters to conduct legal business and pay tickets much like the pre-pandemic world ...

A public records website inadvertently published 260,000 confidential attorney discipline documents due to a security glitch within the State Bar of California’s case management system, not as a ...

The ruling stems from a case involving a Montgomery County Board of Elections official who forwarded an email with a legal memo to his personal account and then to a political party chairman. Critics ...

A recent Ohio Supreme Court case stemming out of Montgomery County threatens to drastically limit Ohioans’ access to public records after the high court determined a public official’s private messages ...

In a major decision affecting LGBTQ rights, the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday carved out a significant exception to public accommodations laws--laws that in most states bar discrimination based on ...