Mar. 15—The Society of Professional Journalists details the Freedom of Information Act and Freedom of Information. 1 What is 'Freedom of Information?' Put simply, Freedom of Information (FOI for short ...

FAYETTEVILLE -- The public insists that public officials who willfully withhold public records or conduct public business in secret should be sued, according to supporters of a Freedom of Information ...

Jacksonville officials said they would likely be hiring someone to handle Freedom of Information Act requests in the city, ...

On July 4, 1966, President Lyndon Johnson signed the federal Freedom of Information Act into law. According to Bill Moyers, Johnson’s press secretary, “LBJ had to be dragged, kicking and screaming, to ...

Glaeser, Stephen; Schonberger, Bryce; Wasley, Charles E.; Xiao, Jason J. Private Information Acquisition via Freedom of Information Act Requests Made to the ...

The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), a landmark law to increase government accountability, is falling short in its aim to improve transparency with American citizens, according to a recent report ...

Bloomberg reporter Jason Leopold sued the FBI and DOJ for the files as part of a Freedom of Information Act request.

Simply putting the state Freedom of Information Act into the Arkansas Constitution turned out to be not so simple, amendment supporters say. The existing statute's language could, for instance, ...

Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency ...

The office of Attorney General William Tong is asking a Connecticut court to rule for the first time in the 50-year history of the state Freedom of Information Act that all records relating to the ...

Allowing clawbacks of records released during public records litigation would disincentivize pre-litigation compliance with ...