Biden Hints at Freedom for Julian Assange
U.S. need for Australia’s cooperation in the Pacific may win the journalist’s release.
U.S. need for Australia’s cooperation in the Pacific may win the journalist’s release.
The law makes it a misdemeanor to approach within 25 feet of a first responder after receiving a verbal warning to stay away.
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Harold Medina, who severely injured a driver while fleeing a gunman, ordered a thorough investigation of his own conduct.
"There is a much bigger story here," the officer's lawyer says. "It goes outward and upward."
The justices established guidelines for determining whether that is true in any particular case.
It took the Air Force four years to release redacted records of its quest to create spiffy new uniforms for the newest branch of the military.
An AP survey found that most states have no mechanism to appeal denials of records requests, outside of filing a lawsuit.
Are you in compliance with the Corporate Transparency Act? Have you even heard of it?
The Royalty Transparency Act passed unanimously out of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee yesterday.
Albuquerque Police Chief Harold Medina, who promised to "get to the bottom of this," is himself the subject of an internal investigation after broadsiding a car last month.
The bills would classify police and correctional officers who kill people on the job as crime victims.
Cabinet officials often use pseudonymous email accounts, but declaring them secret from records requests is another matter altogether.
“The victims may not have been persecuted or tortured due to the data breach yet, but the likelihood of those outcomes has increased due to ICE’s conduct.”
Lawmakers can take small steps that are uncontroversial and bipartisan to jumpstart the fiscal stability process.
The growing anti-transparency atmosphere in the state might make the Florida Man extinct.
The growing anti-transparency atmosphere in the state might make the Florida Man extinct.
"Marsy's Law guarantees to no victim—police officer or otherwise—the categorical right to withhold his or her name from disclosure," the Florida Supreme Court ruled.
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NYPD radio frequencies have been open to the public since 1932. A new encrypted system will end that.
If states insist upon giving away taxpayer money to private companies, the least they can offer in return is transparency.
In the last 50 years, when the budget process has been in place, Congress has managed only four times to pass a budget on time.
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Multiple administrations have allowed senior officials to use alias email accounts. The practice undermines the Freedom of Information Act and encourages secrecy.
Since Congress designed and implemented the last budget process in 1974, only on four occasions have all of the appropriations bills for discretionary spending been passed on time.
But poor record keeping hides the real number.
Massachusetts reformed its notoriously bad public records laws in 2020, but reporters are still fighting to get the police misconduct files they're legally entitled to.
Texas' public record law let police hide records of suspects who died in custody from grieving families, reporters, and lawyers.
The former president reminds us that claiming unbridled executive power is a bipartisan tendency.
Recent comments by former COVID-19 adviser Anthony Fauci contradict what public health officials told us during the pandemic.
It's been nearly three years since New York repealed its police secrecy law, and departments are still fighting to hide misconduct records.
Eye-opening insights into the messy motivations behind restrictive COVID-19 responses.
Even if you despise the media, you should be rooting for better public record laws.
People can never be made incorruptible. We can, however, design governmental systems filled with checks and balances that limit the temptations.
Reason reported in 2020 on allegations of fatal medical neglect inside two federal women's prisons. The Bureau of Prisons heavily redacted reports that would show if women died of inadequate care.
Artist Dave Cicirelli challenges his audience to create meaning.
Montgomery doesn’t want people to see a police dog maul a man to death out of fear of the response.
The five police officers involved in the deadly encounter have been charged with Nichols' murder.
Educators should be responsible to parents and students, not to the government.
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It's not Trump vs. Biden: High officials play fast and loose with government secrets, but only regular people face harsh penalties.
Prosecuting Trump for keeping government records at Mar-a-Lago now seems doomed for political as well as legal reasons.
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C-SPAN has shown House proceedings since 1979 but only what the House chooses to let it show. That needs to change.
Irvington made national headlines last year when it filed a lawsuit against an 82-year-old woman for filing too many public records requests. Now it says a lawyer for FIRE should be prosecuted.
The year’s highlights in buck passing feature petulant politicians, brazen bureaucrats, careless cops, loony lawyers, and junky journalists.