EDITOR'S NOTE: This editorial has been adapted from one that originally published March 19, 2023. Sunshine Week — a celebration of access to public, particularly government, information — ended last week. Most years, we would have highlighted Sunshine Week either before it started or ...
The FBI surveillance my Muslim community actually endured by Assia Boundaoui Last month, an article in the New Yorker detailed discrepancies in comedian Hasan Minhaj’s standup specials. In one story, Minhaj recounts growing up in a Muslim community in Northern California, and his ...
Sunshine Week — a celebration of access to public, particularly government, information — ended yesterday. Most years, we would have highlighted Sunshine Week either before it started or while it was going on. However, we were so busy doing the work of illuminating government activity ...
by Kevin Goldberg “The right to speak and the right to print, without the right to know, are pretty empty.” These are the words of Harold Cross, author of “The People’s Right to Know,” a book largely regarded as inspiration for the federal Freedom of Information Act ...
In response to a Freedom of Information Act request, the City of Morgantown released a sexual harassment incident report without redacting the victim's name, which was then posted online. For that "outrageous breach of privacy" the victim, identified only as H.M., filed a lawsuit against ...
A Wheeling-based attorney is suing Monongalia County Sheriff Perry Palmer and the County Commission over a denied Freedom of Information Act request. Robert McCoid filed the suit in Monongalia County Circuit Court last week and said the FOIA denial was in violation of ...