Neil Derry pulled his Sunshine Ordinance off the agenda for last week’s San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors meeting. The measure, which Derry first introduced in March, is intended to make ...

Last month's column dealt with the philosophy behind open meetings laws and why public officials should conduct the public's business in public, not in private. Open meetings laws like the federal ...

For more than 30 years, Stanford political scientist James Fishkin has been exploring and demonstrating the capacity of small, representative "mini-publics" to make thoughtful meaningful political ...

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee’s office has used a controversial public records exemption to deny over 60 requests from local journalists, residents, and state representatives since 2019, which experts say ...

Notwithstanding the Freedom of Information Act’s primary goal of promoting transparency in government decision-making, the Supreme Court on Thursday ruled by a 7-to-2 vote that the public policy of ...