DOGE says regulatory changes will save $29.4 billion, but that does not amount to a reduction in government outlays, the initiative's ostensible target.
It's a reversal from his first term, when Trump himself ordered the creation of a database tracking excessive use of force.
The Sunshine State is considering a bill that would expand protections for law enforcement officers who use deadly force or cause great bodily harm.
"It appears that access to this court was improperly denied," an attorney for the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press says.
The past three administrations have tried and failed to implement binding regulations on risky research that likely caused the COVID-19 pandemic.
The move is an escalation of the White House's attempt to claim an unchallengeable and unreviewable amount of power.
The cost-cutting initiative's calculation of "estimated savings" is mostly mysterious, and the parts we know about are riddled with errors.
The judge found that the agency's "unusual secrecy" and "substantial authority" make it subject to public record laws.
A smaller government with a more powerful set of unaccountable executive officials is unlikely to be much of a win for liberty.
RFK, Jr.'s Health and Human Service has inexplicably cancelled two vaccine-related advisory meetings since he took the helm of the agency.
Elon Musk promised "maximum transparency," but that apparently doesn't include Freedom of Information requests to DOGE.
The presidential adviser's lack of formal authority complicates his cost-cutting mission.
"The only way you get less waste is to give them less money to spend," says the libertarian-adjacent senator from Kentucky.
Law enforcement acts better when officers know the public is watching.
It's a good sign that the president is calling on critics of the federal government's lack of transparency to staff his administration.
Federal prosecutors say the city's police department was the main focus of a 15-year bribery scheme that also involved the sheriff's office and the state police.
Civil liberty groups and press advocates worry that excessive fees could stifle police oversight.
Flawed as it may be, the U.S. Freedom of Information Act became a model in transparency for other countries to follow.
Families whose loved ones died in federal prisons describe outrageous delays in being notified, ignored phone calls, and troubling discrepancies in the official reports.
FOIA has no teeth and bureaucrats abuse its exemptions. Just redact and release every federal workers' emails instead.
Congress needs to reassert its powers and bring the imperial presidency back down to earth.
The Ocala Gazette says the footage contradicts the Marion County sheriff's claims about Scott Whitley's death. A judge won't let the paper publish the video.
The Reason Foundation filed a FOIA lawsuit last year seeking reviews of deaths at two federal women's prisons with numerous allegations of medical neglect.
Harold Medina made that argument during an internal investigation of a car crash he caused last February.
An Illinois sheriff's deputy with a spotty employment history shot Sonya Massey in the face after responding to her report of a prowler.
DeSantis' chief of staff used a personal phone to coordinate migrant flights to Martha's Vineyard. Now DeSantis' lawyers say those phone logs should be secret.
Numerous federal appeals courts have ruled that filming police is protected under the First Amendment, but police continue to illegally arrest people for it.
Sen. Rand Paul explains why FOIA litigation shouldn’t have been necessary to find this out.
It often takes almost a year or more to get public records from the federal government. Here are some things you can do while you wait.
At yesterday's congressional hearing, the former NIAID director played word games and shifted blame in an effort to dismiss credible claims that his agency funded work that caused the pandemic.
A government scientist is the latest official whose attempts to evade the Freedom of Information Act have landed him in hot water.
Staff shortages and chronic corruption have plagued the Bureau of Prisons for years, exposing inmates to abuse and whistleblowers to retaliation.
A bill backed by the Conference of Mayors would let courts issue restraining orders when people “harass” officials with information requests.
Filming cops is a First Amendment right, and there are already plenty of laws against harassing them.
In 2022, police received a tip that officers were getting paid to make DWI cases disappear—the same allegation that prompted FBI raids in January.
City gives journalist photos. Journalist publishes photos. City…sues journalist?
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.
Plus: A listener asks the editors for examples of left-leaning thinkers who also hold libertarian ideas.
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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.
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