Neil Derry pulled his Sunshine Ordinance off the agenda for last week’s San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors meeting. The measure, which Derry first introduced in March, is intended to make ...

Last month's column dealt with the philosophy behind open meetings laws and why public officials should conduct the public's business in public, not in private. Open meetings laws like the federal ...

For more than 30 years, Stanford political scientist James Fishkin has been exploring and demonstrating the capacity of small, representative "mini-publics" to make thoughtful meaningful political ...

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s April 29, 2021, decision in a Right-to-Know Law (the “RTKL”) case has broad ramifications in matters where a state or local governmental agency has contracted with a ...

In a decision issued December 21, 2015 (Caldecott v. Superior Court of Orange County (Newport- Mesa Unified School District)), the California Court of Appeal ruled that a former school district ...

This article provides a discussion of Justice Amy Coney Barrett's recently-authored opinion in 'Fish and Wildlife Service v. Sierra Club', in which the Supreme Court has construed a key privilege in ...

Law360 (November 3, 2023, 5:09 PM EDT) -- Texas, the second-most populous state in the country, has the most judicial vacancies of any state, but filling those empty seats won't be easy given the veto ...

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee’s office has used a controversial public records exemption to deny over 60 requests from local journalists, residents, and state representatives since 2019, which experts say ...