Release the Covenant crime records: An aware public can help stop additional...
The mass shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville has led to an extraordinary legal battle over the public records law and transparency of our criminal justice system. The school, the church that...
View ArticleAfter 2 1/2 years of delays, journalist files public records suit against...
For 2 1/2 years, Memphis journalist Marc Perrusquia has received perfunctory communications from the city of Memphis that it is still reviewing and considering his records request, each time pushing...
View ArticleJudge rules expenses related to legislative intern harassment exempt from...
A Nashville judge said the expenses related to harassment of a 19-year-old legislative intern by then-state lawmaker Scotty Campbell are exempt from the public records law based on a House rule and a...
View ArticleWBIR anchor files public records suit over denial of UT-Battelle records
Longtime WBIR journalist John Becker has filed a lawsuit challenging the University of Tennessee's denial of public records related to its joint venture, UT-Battelle LLC, which runs the Oak Ridge...
View ArticleImproper use of public records not a reason for sanction, appeals court says
Beleaguered Brentwood attorney Connie Reguli may have done many things wrong, but filing a public records request for county billing records wasn't one of them. The Court of Appeals on May 2 overturned...
View ArticleJudge Myles goes after press for publishing information from leaked documents...
Davidson County Chancellor I’Ashea L. Myles is going after the press for publishing information from leaked documents from the police investigative file of the Covenant case involving the 2023 school...
View ArticleThe problem with the court’s witch hunt over the leak of police records in...
The problem with the court's witch hunt into the leak of police records about the Covenant School shooting is that truthful information about the shooting and shooter is being reported to the public...
View ArticleJudge cleared release for many Covenant shooting police records despite...
Much attention has been given to a ruling by Chancellor I'Ashea Myles blocking release of the Covenant School shooter's manifesto and other writings. But a closer look at the ruling shows that she has...
View ArticleTennessee is getting away with delaying access to public records, sometimes...
Late last year, the city of Memphis wrote a $7,419.68 check to reimburse the attorney fees of journalist Marc Perrusquia rather than risk losing a public records lawsuit. The city folded before the...
View ArticleTennessee Supreme Court to hear case on sealed court records
The Tennessee Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case in which a lower court judge refused to unseal court records in a test of the First Amendment right of access by the public to court proceedings...
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