As he pushed earlier this year to curtail the access Louisiana residents have to public records, Gov. Jeff Landry drew a culinary analogy, saying restaurant patrons don’t need to see where dinner ...

A judge has ordered NJ Transit to turn over, in a job bias suit, documents related to its discipline of transit police, finding the "deliberative process" privilege coined by the state Supreme Court a ...

A bill filed this week by state Rep. Jerome "Dee" Richard, Independent of Thibodaux, and Sen. Rick Gallot, Democrat of Ruston, would repeal an exemption to the state Public Records Act called the ...

But the battle over public records in Louisiana is far from over. As written into state law, the deliberative process privilege applies to "the process by which decisions and policies are formulated" ...

The principle of open government is foundational to a healthy democracy, and the availability of government records upon request from the public is one of its chief cornerstones. In the U.S., the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The DOJ sent a letter to Congress on Saturday outlining its reasons for making redactions in the Epstein files, along with ...

Citing the "working papers" exemption of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act, state officials withheld an email attachment related to policies concerning transgender students. Like every other ...

Whether the “deliberative process” privilege protects draft documents that the USF&WS and the National Marine Fisheries Service created as part of a formal consultation process under Section 7 of the ...