The Savory Tort

Late last week, the Supreme Court of India struck a blow for transparency and accountability when it ruled unconstitutional a system of ano...

CC0 Pixabay via picryl A favorable reform to follow the police protest movement of recent years, stemming in particular from the killing of...

Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders has proposed a bill to undercut the highly regarded transparency regime of that state's Freedo...

A Massachusetts Superior Court in March ordered the district attorney to release investigative records to the family of a man killed by poli...

The nonprofit foundation responsible for disbursing hundreds of millions of dollars of opioid settlement money in Ohio is subject to state f...

A bill that would have gutted the state Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) was defeated in committee in the Arkansas House on March 29. A mo...

In fall 2022, students in my freedom-of-information (FOI) law seminar produced another range of compelling research papers in which they inq...

Alyssa Petroff , a judicial law clerk at the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, has published Behind Bars: Secrecy in Arizona’s Private Prison...

UPDATE, June 26: I'm sorry to report that Professor Steinbuch did not prevail in the primary. But wow did he come close with 46.5% of th...

With images obtained under the federal FOIA, Russ Kick's "Memory Hole" catalyzed conversation on the Iraq war. Now archived a...

"Big Ballin' Money Shot" by Louish Pixel CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 A whistleblower alleged that a who's who of big banks is improp...

Two recent court decisions in Europe construed European directives on public accountability to reach ostensibly private actors, the Italian ...

I wrote in 2020 about the pay cuts foisted on faculty and staff at UMass Dartmouth.  We're a union shop, which is weird for university ...