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Transparency is a vital safeguard against government corruption.

Demonstrators in Kingston, New York, who have opposed armored police vehicles are pressing their First Amendment rights.

A private legal memo — inadvertently posted on a school board meeting agenda — advised the board on the risks of keeping at-large elections.

Mar. 23— When the California Department of Insurance announced a plan to start deleting employees' emails automatically after 180 days, an employee raised concerns that had nothing to do with scandals at the top of the department. "The committee representing all branches of the Department on IT matters voted to withdraw the policy," Insurance Department...

As investigations director, Dave researches and writes about surveillance technology, government transparency, press freedoms, the U.S.-Mexico border and immigration enforcement, prisoner rights, and other digital rights issues. He leads the Atlas of Surveillance project in partnership with the...

/PRNewswire/ -- The California Secretary of State ("SOS") Shirley Weber will remove cartoons and a records "retention" handbook on the SOSs website that...

Sunshine Week is a time to celebrate a simple motto: Open government is good government. The sun should never set on our project to reify that principle — and we

An outside investigation found that Chief Deputy Fred Mathis was likely intoxicated but cleared him through a rationale that has outraged department insiders.

At a news conference this week, Mayor Jerry Dyer announced that the city had lost more than $600,000 to online scammers who were targeting municipalities nationwide. An American suspect has been identified by the FBI.

The California city was victim to a larger scheme that targeted several municipalities across the nation, but some wonder why city officials waited two years to provide information on the scam.