Germany has agreed to work with the United States to open records on 17 million Jews and other victims of the Nazis and allow historians and survivors access to some 30 million to 50 million documents.

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Pending legislation in Tennessee seeks to redact all personal information in traffick accident reports (e.g., names of drivers, passengers and witnesses).

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A legislative committee has approved Senate Bill 1015 which proposes to limit public access to divorce records in California if the divorce court finds that withholding the information of parties outweighs the public's right of access to the information.

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Florida House members voted to extend an existent law to keep business deals secret and to promote another bill that would conceal the identities of people licensed to carry concealed weapons.

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The Cincinnati Enquirer filed suit to obtain lead-risk-assessment reports maintained by the city health department and lead-citation notices issued to property owners of residence occupied by children whose blood indicated elevated lead levels. The Supreme Court held that the reports did not contain "protected health information" under Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and even if HIPAA did apply, the reports would be subject to disclosure under the state law exception to HIPAA privacy rule.

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The National Archives and Records Administration is making available online, for the first time, over 400,000 State Department records and telegrams from 1973 and 1974.

According to NARA, the documents—from State’s Central Foreign Policy Files database—consist of historical telegrams, index references to paper documents created in 1974, and withdrawal notices for telegrams and documents that could not be made public for national security reasons.

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TRENTON, N.J. -- A New Jersey appeals court has found that Edison Township's attempt to charge $55 for a copy of its council meeting minutes was unreasonable and an attempt to discourage public access to government's workings.

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Guantanamo Bay Document Release

On March 3, 2006, the Department of Defense released Reprocessed Combatant Status Review Tribunal (CSRT) and Administrative Review Board (ARB) Documents in response to litigation pursued by the Associated Press. These documents include Testimony of Detainees Before the Combatant Status Review Tribunal, Testimony of Detainees Before the Administrative Review Board, and Administrative Review Board Summaries of Detention/Release