Accountability systems should reflect the prodigious influence these companies have over our lives. Laura Manley is the ...

Connecticut’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) generally provides access to records created by public agencies (including ...

The Virginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), located ß 2.2-3700 et. seq. of the Code of Virginia, guarantees citizens of the Commonwealth and representatives of the media access to public records ...

In three separate opinions rendered in November, the Public Access Counselor (PAC) of the Illinois Attorney General provided guidance regarding the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) on the ...

Davis is among a group of requesters who are struggling to recover attorney’s fees from agencies that have withheld records, despite 2007 FOIA amendments intended to make doing so easier. His group ...

The original Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) of 1966—the law under which many of those redacted documents are obtained—was the "product of years of slow campaigning by a network of ...

It’s the last edition of FOIA Files this year! Thank you to everyone who has subscribed, shared and helped make this weekly newsletter a success. It’s been an amazing first year, despite the ...

The House Committee on Government Operations moved legislation to expand the state's Freedom of Information Act to cover the governor and lawmakers.

In 1976, the Michigan Legislature enacted P.A. 442, known as the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). An act to provide for public access to certain records of public bodies; to permit certain fees; to ...