The increased secrecy by the Idaho Department of Correction and the Peace Officer Standards and Training Council comes less than four months after InvestigateWest used the information to expose ...

An InvestigateWest probe showed that corrections officers resigned after alleged bad behavior. Now, those decisions will be ...

New online tool makes 19th century records searchable by name, turning decades of research into accessible digital format.

In City of Gilroy v. Superior Court, the California Supreme Court on Jan. 15 unanimously ruled that governments must be held accountable even when records no longer exist -- but cities aren't required ...

The federal prosecutor from Missouri, who is overseeing an investigation into the 2020 vote in Georgia, had several meetings ...

A high-profile House Democrat is accusing Attorney General Pam Bondi of "spying" on her search history while she pored through Jeffrey Epstein-related documents.

An InvestigateWest analysis of the state’s educator misconduct database shows gaps allowing teachers to escape scrutiny.

A new report from the Utah State Auditor revealed issues with privacy practices within the Department of Health and Human Services, leading to records for millions of patients being exposed.

Commonwealth Court is considering a case that could determine whether digitized historical records belong to the public or ...

Update: New information added to the end of the story. The latest incarnation of the notorious BreachForums hacking forum has suffered a data breach, with its user database table leaked online.

Tennessee launched the country’s first-ever public database tracking and listing convicted domestic abusers as part of a ratified law honoring a sheriff’s deputy who was murdered by her abusive ...