Boasting wide, bipartisan support from Michiganders, transparency in government runs on the behind-the-scenes, often ...

Gov. Sarah Sanders announces a special session to consider tax cuts and a rollback of public access to government information. Credit: Brian Chilson Arkansas government could be more efficient with a ...

Bots powered by artificial intelligence are inundating open records offices with often frivolous petitions, but the same tools underpinning these software applications can also help professionals ...

The Freedom of Information Act, usually shortened to FOIA, is a US law that gives people the right to ask the federal government for information. Passed in 1966 and officially listed as 5 U.S.C. § 552 ...

The federal government is working to improve the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) — making it easier to access public records. Attorney General Merrick Garland issued new FOIA guidelines in March, ...

A new change to the Air Force's Freedom of Information Act submission portal, asking whether individuals seeking public information from the service would agree to accept only "clearly releasable" ...

LANSING, MI — As Michigan continues to rank dead last in government transparency, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson announced Tuesday her department has unveiled an online portal to make requesting ...

Immigration attorneys must rely almost exclusively on FOIA requests to obtain a noncitizen’s Alien Registration File.

A federal court in Washington, D.C. gave the Trump administration a win on Wednesday in a case over the abrupt closure of an office dedicated to processing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.