Notwithstanding the Freedom of Information Act’s primary goal of promoting transparency in government decision-making, the Supreme Court on Thursday ruled by a 7-to-2 vote that the public policy of ...
The Supreme Court heard oral argument on Monday morning in a case that will determine the scope of transparency under the Freedom of Information Act’s key “deliberative process” privilege. U.S. Fish ...
An article in the Monroe News-Star last May about a controversial faith-based school getting approved for hundreds of taxpayer-financed vouchers has ignited a legal conflagration over Louisiana's ...
As he pushed earlier this year to curtail the access Louisiana residents have to public records, Gov. Jeff Landry drew a culinary analogy, saying restaurant patrons don’t need to see where dinner ...
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee's office has used a controversial public records exemption to deny over 60 requests from local journalists, residents, and state representatives since 2019, which experts say ...
Faircloth, who also represented DOE in the News-Star case, did not respond to repeated calls seeking comment. Now, it seems almost everything Jindal wants kept from public view is declared to be ...