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As of Friday, News 4 has been waiting 100 days on a single Oklahoma State Department of Education Open Records Request. State law allows it with vague language.

Economic development programs available through Ohio Treasurers Office were discussed in a presentation with Guernsey County commissioners.

Caitlyn Crites The day after the 2021 inauguration, Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut took to Twitter to declare: “Biden is making transparency cool again.”  This was a head-scratcher for many journalists and transparency advocates. Freedom of Information — the concept that government documents belong to and must be accessible to the people — has never not been cool. Using federal and local public records laws, a single individual can uncove...