Traveling more than 1,000 miles over the course of five days, Courthouse News journalists visited 25 Virginia circuit courts to report on civil complaints filed in those courthouses. Their goal was to ...

Assoc. Sociology Prof. Ian Mullins acknowledged that FOIA can be a powerful tool for researchers and journalists, but claimed ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Virginia NAACP filed a lawsuit Friday alleging Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s administration failed to turn over public records to explain how it decides whether to restore the voting ...

Citing the "working papers" exemption of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act, state officials withheld an email attachment related to policies concerning transgender students. Like every other ...

(CN) — Virginia has put in place a statewide system of access to court records. But it is blacked out to the public and the press. The online records room is controlled by the chief court ...

Background: In 2022, Heather Sawyer, executive director of the nonprofit government watchdog American Oversight, submitted several Virginia Freedom of Information Act requests for records related to ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia lawmakers gave final passage Saturday to a measure that would undo a recent reform intended to expand public access to certain law enforcement files in closed criminal ...

Institutions have been slow to respond to records requests related to the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” and UT Austin is fighting to withhold records.