Local school boards across Connecticut have found a way to violate the spirit of Connecticut’s open-government law — by following the letter of the law. In the process they are giving their public ...

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 15: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media as he departs the White House on July 15, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump is traveling to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to speak at ...

Colleen Murphy is passing along to her successor a challenge: help the public find out what its government is up to in Connecticut. Murphy has tackled that challenge for 36 years as part of the ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The U.S. government has withdrawn from a multilateral global initiative focused on government transparency and accountability that it ...

In North Carolina, nearly all documents that city and county government officials create or receive while carrying out their duties are considered the property of the people. State law requires ...

The thought of data centers being proposed just about everywhere there are swaths of open land and convenient access to power sources in Northeast Pennsylvania wasn’t prevalent a little more than a ...

Wisconsin Republican leaders are enforcing a rule banning the public from recording legislative hearings. The decision follows the December closure of WisconsinEye, the state's C-SPAN equivalent. Open ...

Fired US State Department workers push their belongings in a shopping cart as they leave the building in Washington, DC, on July 11, 2025. The US State Department began laying off more than 1,300 ...

There are so many ongoing battles between transparency advocates and government, it's fair to say there's a clear cut effort underway to kill the public records act. That's part of the discussion on ...