A Great American Tradition: Suing Them Yourself…

A riveting account of suing the government over FOIA, from a pro se litigant’s perspective: Inside well-funded newsrooms, investigative reporters can usually turn to company lawyers for help with stalled public records requests. But independent freelancers don’t have that luxury, and many can’t afford to hire legal counsel on their own. So when the time [...]

The high cost of fighting secrecy…

A three-year court battle between the Mail Tribune and Jackson County Sheriff Mike Winters over concealed handgun license public records has cost the county nearly $44,000. Winters was required to pay the newspaper’s legal expenses after the Oregon Court of Appeals ruled in June that Winters was wrong to deny the Mail Tribune’s request for [...]

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