It was “improper” for the department led by Corporation Counsel Mary Richardson-Lowry to refuse to provide those records to ...

How many in Illinois knew of a state agency named “Illinois Office of Broadband”? Based on our research, they fall under the Illinois Department of  Commerce ...

Student reporters at Michigan State explain how public records helped them uncover misconduct, investigations and hidden decisions.

Amid congressional testimony this week raising troubling new questions about the training new U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers receive, the former head of ICE’s Baltimore Field Office ...

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 ...

Attorneys for convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein filed requests for records retained by American intelligence agencies that could reflect an affiliation with the CIA or whether the National ...

(The Center Square) – Michigan’s Bureau of Elections has asked Michigan’s Court of Claims to dismiss a Michigan Fair Elections Institute’s lawsuit seeking absentee ballot information. The bureau ...

Jeffrey Epstein was photographed for the New York State Sex Offender Registry on March 28, 2017. MANHATTAN (CN) — A New York City federal appeals court on Wednesday signaled it was likely to remand a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jan. 9—A Lee County judge ruled Tuesday, Jan. 6, in favor of Dixon's defense attorney's motion to pause the information-gathering ...

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said in a Dec. 15 compliance report that it reduced its Freedom of Information Act request backlog for certain immigration records by 99.96% over the course ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – The Michigan Court of Appeals has sided with Grand Rapids in a lawsuit over the city’s response times to a public records request. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sued ...