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• Congress gets involved after Indian Island court ruling

  July 25, 2011 in News, Nation/World, Region Congress is weighing into conflicts over military secrets and questions about when people have a right to know if nearby federal facilities pose a deadly threat. New legislation follows a …

• High court rules against government in open records case

  March 7, 2011 The Supreme Court today rejected the government’s broad use of an exemption in the federal Freedom of Information Act to withhold documents from the public, ruling for a Washington state … 8

• Editorial: Welcome bills push online public information

  May 11, 2010 in Opinion on Page A9 The good thing about the federal Freedom of Information Act is that it declares the kind of clarity about government operations that citizens require if they’re going to make a … 1