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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

Tennessee’s open records aren’t open to everybody, and the state Attorney General’s Office wants to keep it that way. The ...

As early voting winds down, the number of early ballots cast this year is at a record high for a nonpresidential election in ...

Abigail Spanberger counts more billionaires, D.C.-based donors, and out-of-state residents among her financial supporters ...

The Virginia Department of Corrections, under scrutiny over the death of an inmate that raised broader questions about conditions at a southwest Virginia prison, is refusing to release public records ...