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Each year, the Indiana Coalition for Open Government tracks access measures in the Indiana General Assembly. Of the 22 bills in this report, only one pro-access bill became law and nine anti-access bills became law. In all, 15...

The Publisher — Privacy trumped accountability as Gov. Joe Kernan signed H.E.A. 1285 into law. As approved by the General Assembly, H.E.A. 1285 included a provision making practically all information in five state...

A public school teacher’s employment records were released by the Wisconsin Court of Appeals, which held that the state open records law mandated the documents’ release. The court rejected the teacher’s request...

U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist denied an expedited request by Virginia State Police to seal its files from a murder investigation that wrongly sent Earl Washington Jr. to death row. Ten of 14 documents...

U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist denied an expedited request by Virginia State Police to seal its files from a murder investigation that wrongly sent Earl Washington Jr. to death row. Ten of 14 documents...