Denver's local media want cameras allowed in the courtroom during the trial of the Aurora theater shooting suspect. I've been been in journalism for more than two decades and, given my firsthand experience as a victim of crime, I can say unequivocally that cameras should not be allowed ...

Call records and text messages from Pierce County (WA) Prosecutor Mark Lindquist’s personal mobile phone aren’t private if they’re related to public business. The idea drives a unanimous ruling issued Tuesday by the Washington Sta ...

Residents will soon have the option to request town data using Myersville’s Freedom of Information policy. No one has questioned why the Maryland rural western Frederick County town of 1,678 residents did not have a Freedom of Information Act, ...

Over time federal agencies have flipped the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) on its head. Congress clearly intended the FOIA to be a tool for the public to pry information out of federal agencies. In recent years, however, agencies have blatantly ab ...

West Seneca NY Assemblyman Michael Kearns is giving the Office of People with Developmental Disabilities 10 more days to respond to his Freedom of Information request, or he says he's taking legal action. read more ...

In confusing public relations with public governance, the Ferguson City Council took one step forward and two steps back this week. On Monday, in advance of a Tuesday night City Council meeting, the public relations firm hired by the city announced t ...

In one of the most high-profile criminal trials in Colorado history, the state is seeking the death penalty against suspected Aurora theater shooter James Holmes. That should be reason enough for cameras to be allowed in the courtroom — to record every statement and allow scrutiny of the process that could result in the state putting someone to death ...

In his final 4 months as El Paso County Sheriff, Terry Maketa is withholding timely and possibly important safety information from a large segment of the public. It's apparently in retaliation for KRDO Newschannel 13's aggressive reporting into the scandal that surrounds him. One of the country's top 1st Amendment attorneys says Sheriff Maketa's latest move also violates the U.S. constitution ...

Opponents of Proposition 104, titled "School Board Open Meetings," have their work cut out for them. The proposed change, which voters will consider in November, would open school board meetings at which teachers' unions and other employee groups collectively bargain with school boards ...

Should the trial of Aurora theater shooting gunman James Holmes be televised? Television station KUSA has asked the judge's permission to set up a single video camera in the courtroom during Holmes's trial, which is scheduled to begin December 8 ...