Eleven years ago next month, advocates of openness, transparency and accountability in state and local government operations trumpeted with great fanfare the launch of the Ohio Checkbook, a website ...

The Los Angeles Times today published the Police Records Access Project, a new searchable database featuring once-secret police records. Built by UC Berkeley and Stanford University, 1.5 million pages ...

Suppose you're in the market to buy a property or an owner looking to sell or verify your ownership to get a loan. To do almost anything, you may need to pull public records proving ownership, tax and ...

The public can now search internal affairs documents and other police-misconduct records from nearly 700 California law enforcement agencies through a database created by UC Berkeley and Stanford ...

This story originally appeared on PA Post. A new law signed by Governor Tom Wolf will give Pennsylvania police departments greater access to disciplinary records for officers during the hiring process ...