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Showing posts with label transparency. Show all posts
Showing posts with label transparency. Show all posts
Saturday, October 26, 2024

Transparency never goes out of style

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This autumn, I am privileged to serve as a new member of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Advisory Committee, a U.S. federal entity con...
Monday, March 11, 2024

Book supports legal privilege for undercover reporting

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Truth and Transparency , a recent book by Professors Alan K. Chen and Justin Marceau , is a comprehensive and gratifying tour of the histor...
Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Smart but unconstitutional? Trump appointee inverts Scalia maxim in striking corporate transparency law

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"Corporate Transparency," Seattle by Daniel Foster via Flickr CC BY-NC 2.0 A federal district court in Alabama ruled the Corpo...
Wednesday, February 21, 2024

To combat corruption, India Supreme Court strikes down dark money system, cites U.S. precedents

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Late last week, the Supreme Court of India struck a blow for transparency and accountability when it ruled unconstitutional a system of ano...
Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Police reform shines light on disciplinary records

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CC0 Pixabay via picryl A favorable reform to follow the police protest movement of recent years, stemming in particular from the killing of...
Friday, September 15, 2023

£5.41m reg fine over energy traders' WhatsApps cautions attorneys also on retention, spoliation, FOI

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Electrical pylons on the Leeds-Liverpool Canal, England. Mr T via Geograph CC BY-SA 2.0 The British gas and electric regulatory authority (...
Monday, September 11, 2023

Ark. Gov swings again at state FOIA

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Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders has proposed a bill to undercut the highly regarded transparency regime of that state's Freedo...
Monday, May 22, 2023

DA cannot shield officer, EMT identities from state FOIA disclosure, court rules in fatal police shooting

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A Massachusetts Superior Court in March ordered the district attorney to release investigative records to the family of a man killed by poli...
Sunday, May 14, 2023

Public records make $363m toxic-tort verdict possible

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Condensed ethylene oxide, a carcinogen. 102% Yield via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 Public records made possible a $363m verdict in a tox...
Saturday, May 13, 2023

Opioid settlement disbursements must be transparent, state high court rules in row over nonprofit foundation

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The nonprofit foundation responsible for disbursing hundreds of millions of dollars of opioid settlement money in Ohio is subject to state f...
Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Wide-ranging social commentary in Peele's 'Wendell & Wild' pillories privatization, school-to-prison pipeline

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Released by Netflix in October 2022, Wendell & Wild is a delightful stop-motion horror animation and none-too-subtle commentary on the...
Monday, April 10, 2023

Citizens defeat attack on state transparency law

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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...
Monday, February 27, 2023

FOI seminar shines light on transparency research

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In fall 2022, students in my freedom-of-information (FOI) law seminar produced another range of compelling research papers in which they inq...
Wednesday, November 23, 2022

Anti-corruption law violates business-owner privacy, EU court holds with myopic appraisal of transparency

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A key European Union transparency law that allows watchdogs to trace corporate ownership to combat corruption has been struck down by the E...