SAN DIEGO, CA--(Marketwire - Nov 26, 2012) - Instant Checkmate, the San Diego, California-based Internet startup that provides instant criminal background checks, has rolled out a new public platform ...

TWIN FALLS • State and federal public records laws are intended to make information about the public’s business readily available. These laws protect citizens’ rights to monitor their governments’ ...

Bill Hankes was trying to find a way to sweep journalists’ inboxes of press release spam when he stumbled upon a bigger issue. On a visit to a Seattle newsroom, he watched a reporter spend 45 minutes ...

The Wisconsin Department of Justice recently said copies of public records shouldn't cost more than 2 cents a page - the actual cost for paper and use of the copier - but some Iowa government agencies ...

Members of the media and the public attended a sometimes emotional hearing on the future of public records in Tennessee. The state's Office of Open Records is holding three public hearings across the ...

Citizens should not have to pay a tax to obtain information from public officials. Yet that is exactly what a draft bill in the Wisconsin Assembly would propose by allowing government agencies to ...