Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There's one tool all reporters in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel newsroom utilize: records requests. No matter if they cover ...

Agencies are burdened with growing numbers of requests and more records to manage and parse through. Emerging technology offers a way forward for beleaguered staff.

PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) — Cast vote records and ballot images captured by automated tabulating machines in future South Dakota elections would become public records under a proposal moving forward in the ...

Information and document requests under the Freedom of Information Act and analogous state public records laws can be powerful and relatively inexpensive tools in a party’s litigation toolbox and are ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. A popular tool used by numerous state and local governments to manage public records requests contained defects that could have allowed ...

In North Carolina, nearly all documents that city and county government officials create or receive while carrying out their duties are considered the property of the people. State law requires ...

In the age of digital records, how do we know that data has not been tampered with? Rafael (Rafa) Cordón has an answer. In efforts to preserve the integrity of real information — especially government ...

Court rules Open Records Act does not cover KY Fish and Wildlife commissioners communicating with each other on their personal devices.