FOIA imposes two requirements on requests for agency records. Requests must: Reasonably describe the desired records. Be made in compliance with agency rules and regulations for making FOIA requests. ...

Several school district officials said they are being inundated with Right-to-Know requests filed by FOIA Buddy, a business aiming to simplify public use of the Freedom of Information Act. Ever since ...

Macomb County government attorneys have been flooded with a “tsunami” of Freedom of Information Act requests that the top lawyer partially attributed to “political turmoil and a general distrust in ...

Attorney General Tim Griffin's recent announcement that he's creating an advisory "bipartisan working group" to make suggestions to him for modernizing, updating and improving our Freedom of ...

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

A local investigative reporter and podcaster wanted to dig deeper into the recent controversy involving the Grand Blanc ...

The city of Norfolk is arguing that public records requests don’t apply to elected officials in response to a lawsuit alleging the city violated open records laws. That has prompted concerns from an ...

That student-on-student sexual abuse scandal continued to play out the other day when Circuit Judge Doug Martin ruled the Huntsville School District Board violated the state's Freedom of Information ...

WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 18: The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building on Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) In this episode of Tax Notes ...

The Department of Health and Human Services’ mass dismissals of workers who release government records “raise grave transparency, accountability, and privacy concerns,” Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden said ...