Public records are one of the few ways that criminal justice reporters can learn more about what happens in prisons, jails, youth detention facilities and ICE detention centers. There are few other ...

Shortly after midnight on Jan. 1, 2019, a handful of California news organizations combined forces to do something exciting. At the exact moment a new transparency law took effect in the state, dozens ...

In the 43 years since it was enacted, Wisconsin’s open records law has issues that its drafters had never imagined. Among them: long response times, overused exemptions, unpredictable fees, and ...

Last year, Nate Sanford filed a “silly story” for Spokane’s alt-weekly Inlander about a state senator getting into a Twitter argument with an AI porn spambot. The bot was eventually suspended after ...