Public officials

Rhode Island's governor signed into law yesterday what open records advocates have called the first major revisions in 14 years…

Electronic communications -- specifically tweets, text and e-mail messages -- between city officials discussing public business are subject to the…

Three journalists requested access to the sealed file of an Alabama-based federal judge's divorce proceedings wrought with accusations of domestic…

A federal judge in Ohio has granted several news media organizations’ request to unseal hundreds of trial exhibits in the…

The Virginia Supreme Court upheld a 2010 ruling that a former Newport News judge defamed a former court official when…

A Cook County judge declared the Illinois eavesdropping statute unconstitutional last week in the case of a street artist who…

The U.S. Supreme Court today ruled that requiring elected officials to recuse themselves from governance votes on issues where they…

Newspaper reports about a rumor regarding a local city councilman’s personal relationship with a woman who received a “sweetheart deal”…

A North Carolina judge has ordered an online-news editor to produce the names of six anonymous posters who allegedly posted…

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a police department had the authority to search an officer's text messages…