Eleven years ago next month, advocates of openness, transparency and accountability in state and local government operations trumpeted with great fanfare the launch of the Ohio Checkbook, a website ...

WASHINGTON — By providing free consulting and some software, Google Inc. is helping state governments make reams of public records that are now unavailable or hard to find online easily accessible to ...

U-T Watchdog compiled a database of public records requests across the region to mark Sunshine Week, a national effort to raise awareness of open government issues. The Watchdog asked 107 agencies for ...

Matt Earle is an entrepreneur based in Toronto, Canada, and is the President of Reputation.ca, an online reputation management company. Managing your reputation may be simply removing yourself from ...

SANTA FE, N.M. (CN) — New Mexico’s public records law unconstitutionally restricts the public from using information from public-record databases for “political purpose,” a state lawmaker says, and he ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (WJET/WFXP) — Billions of records containing personal information of U.S. residents may have been exposed after a background check company fell victim to a breach, a new lawsuit ...

New York police disciplinary records had long been shielded from public view, not subject to disclosure under the state's Freedom of Information laws. That changed in June 2020, when the state ...

On Tuesday, personal data broker National Public Data acknowledged a data breach that involves 2.7 billion pieces of personal information, including names, addresses and Social Security numbers, in ...