After years-long FOIA battle, the Energy Department pays the Center for Public Integrity $5K in legal fees

The Center for Public Integrity, as a matter of policy, does not accept grants from the federal government. But the Center will accept compensation for the time and effort we put into fighting the government’s efforts to keep information from the public. And that’s what happened last month when the Center concluded a Freedom of […]

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Judge backs publisher over Raritan Borough in public records fight

From NJ.com:

SOMERVILLE — A state judge has again denied Raritan Borough's efforts to charge a major newspaper publisher for public information — a decision in an ongoing battle that could cost the borough and its taxpayers as much as $750,000 in legal fees.

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How to sabotage California’s Public Records Act

Opinion from Peter Scheer, executive director of the First Amendment Coalition.

If you were looking for a way to sabotage America’s freedom-of-information laws, you couldn’t do much better than a legal strategy being pursued by government entities in two California towns.

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