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 ...

After failing to convince a trial court of their need for secrecy, Washington state lawmakers rightly were blasted in the court of public opinion when they took an outrageous vote in February to ...

EXCLUSIVE – A Florida-based multi-agency task force has seized a record one million pounds of cocaine during fiscal year 2025 — a haul officials say represents 378 million lethal doses, enough to kill ...

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 ...

If you have a moment, take the time to read this just-released report from the Texas Court Records Preservation Task Force, formed in November 2009 by the Supreme Court of Texas to see just how ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...