Public records access differs by US state in scope, deadlines, fees, exemptions, and enforcement. Use a 10-question checklist ...

Experts say this kind of media campaign is unprecedented and paints a distorted picture of immigrants and crime ...

Rep. James Comer, Republican Chair of the Oversight Committee, joined Democrats in pledging to investigate the Justice Department for its handling of missing Epstein files related to President Trump.

In one of Vermont’s largest towns, most of the requests officials get for public records aren’t coming from local residents.

The state has slowly been working toward making those records available online as well. But when the court system reprimands a state prosecutor for misconduct that led to the striking down of a ...

Files featuring Trump’s name have been removed from or kept out of the database from the very beginning, NPR reports.

Nearly half of the databases that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention used to update regularly — surveillance systems that tracked public health information like Covid vaccination rates and ...

Breakthrough archive and interactive webpage bring order, insight, and searchability to thousands of previously fragmented files — with continuous expansion as new disclosures emerge FiscalNote ...

4.3B LinkedIn-Style Records Found in One of the Largest Data Exposures Ever Your email has been sent A massive, unsecured database containing billions of professional profiles has been left exposed ...

The genealogy site’s clarification of its terms and conditions has barred those working on unsolved crimes from access to the company’s vast trove of records. By Corey Kilgannon Since online genealogy ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Ohio will soon be able to check thousands of voters’ citizenship records with “unprecedented access” to a federal records database. Officials in Ohio, Indiana, Iowa and Florida ...

EVERETT — The cities of Stanwood and Sedro-Woolley are appealing a judge’s recent decision that Flock camera footage is subject to public records requests. The cities filed the appeal Thursday, court ...