Boasting wide, bipartisan support from Michiganders, transparency in government runs on the behind-the-scenes, often invisible, work of public servants working for local municipalities. The Freedom of ...

“….[W]e file Freedom of Information Act requests with government agencies, comb through industry reports, crunch numbers, and interview and photograph people out ...

Gov. Sarah Sanders announces a special session to consider tax cuts and a rollback of public access to government information. Credit: Brian Chilson Arkansas government could be more efficient with a ...

The Freedom of Information Act, usually shortened to FOIA, is a US law that gives people the right to ask the federal government for information. Passed in 1966 and officially listed as 5 U.S.C. § 552 ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — Newport News has rolled out a new Virginia Freedom of Information Act (VFOIA) Responses Protocol, aiming to enhance transparency and streamline public access to government records.

Information and document requests under the Freedom of Information Act and analogous state public records laws can be powerful and relatively inexpensive tools in a party’s litigation toolbox and are ...

Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, is demanding to know how the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) plans to comply with ...

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released a report Monday slamming the way federal agencies fulfill their obligations under the Freedom of Information Act, saying the system is ...

Teams handling Freedom of Information Act requests at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration were gutted Tuesday as part of the widespread job cuts ordered ...

A federal court in Washington, D.C. gave the Trump administration a win on Wednesday in a case over the abrupt closure of an office dedicated to processing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.