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

Unlike some state public records laws, the federal Freedom of Information Act does not define whether personal email messages are public records. Whether a record is subject to disclosure under FOIA ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

All federal agencies are required to disclose documents under FOIA unless the records fall under certain exemptions, such as personal privacy and law enforcement of national security. To submit a FOIA ...

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 ...

The Administrative Procedure Act (APA) of 1946 included provisions that required federal agencies to release information to the public regarding agency activities. The structure of the APA, however, ...