Citizen asks appeals court to reconsider attorney fees award
A citizen who won a public records lawsuit against the Knox County Sheriff has asked an appeals court for a rehearing on a ruling that vacated the trial court's award of about $58,000 in attorney's...
View ArticleLawsuit seeks access to DCS child death records
A lawsuit filed earlier this month by journalist Stacy Jacobson of WREG in Memphis is seeking access to records related to the Department of Children's Services interactions with a 14-year-old boy who...
View ArticleCourt of Appeals: Trial audio recording a public record
The Tennessee Court of Appeals ruled that an audio recording of a trial made by the court reporter is part of the court record and a public record subject to the state public records law. The ruling...
View ArticleJudge puts the brakes on state’s use of deliberative process privilege
Davidson County Chancellor Pat Moskal ruled that the state could not withhold consultant reports by McKinsey and Co. under a deliberative process privilege in the face of a public records request. She...
View ArticleFriends of Lick Creek file public records lawsuit over sewage effluent plans
A group of residents in Hickman County are suing the Water Authority of Dickson County for not turning over documents about a proposed sewage plant that would dump 12 million gallons of wastewater a...
View ArticlePublic records lawsuit filed to force release of Covenant School shooter’s...
A Hendersonville resident has filed a lawsuit to force the Nashville Police Department to release the Covenant School shooter's manifesto and other writings, saying that Tennessee law does not allow...
View ArticlePolice say Covenant School parents may intervene in public records case,...
The Davidson County chancellor overseeing the public records case over the Covenant School shooter's manifesto has moved the initial hearing in the case five weeks to June 8. Police say in their motion...
View ArticleTennessee Star editor Leahy sues FBI for withholding Covenant shooter manifesto
Tennessee Star editor Michael Patrick Leahy and his company, Star News Digital Media, Inc., filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the FBI for withholding the Covenant School shooter's manifesto under the...
View ArticleSen. Gardenhire, Tennessean file public records lawsuits; Covenant parents...
The fight over the release of the Covenant School shooter's manifesto and other writings escalated Wednesday with state Sen. Todd Gardenhire, R-Chattanooga, and The Tennessean filing a public records...
View ArticleJudge allows Covenant school, church to intervene in public records case
A Davidson County chancellor presiding over a public records case related to the shooting at The Covenant School has granted motions for the school and the Covenant Presbyterian Church to intervene to...
View ArticleChancellor says victim rights warrant consideration in access to police records
A judge said victim rights in the Tennessee constitution and in statute warranted review as to whether they would block access to the writings of a mass shooter and other records collected by police in...
View ArticleRelease 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...
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