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Vital records document the birth, death, marriage and divorce of every individual. A more centralized system in the US could help public health researchers better study pandemics and disease.
Photos showing what appear to be torn-up documents in two different toilets may provide more evidence of the former president’s habit of destroying his presidential documents.
Donald Trump’s lawsuit to stop the release to Congress of potentially embarrassing or incriminating documents puts the National Archives in the middle of an old legal conflict.
Police body cameras have the potential to make private details about people’s lives, including some of the most stressful experiences of their lives, public and easily accessible online
Nonwhites were less willing to wait for an internal investigation to wrap up before seeing the footage.
Policymakers should mandate Canada’s national library to archive the entire Canadian web domain so future reserachers can make sense of 2020 and ongoing responses to the pandemic.
Government produces millions of pages of records every day: studies, reports, memos, emails, budgets and more. These reports belong to the public, but increasingly, lawmakers are trying to hide them.
As a Canadian federal election year dawns, an alternative approach to freedom-of-information legislation is an urgent need.
“You have the records of our abuse.” So read the placards held by protesters outside hearings of the Royal Commission and the recent Victorian parliamentary inquiry into child sex abuse. These protesters…
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Associate Professor of Instruction, The University of Texas at Austin
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Director of the Brechner Freedom of Information Project, College of Journalism and Communications, University of Florida
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Professor Emeritus, Geography and Environmental Studies, and President, Information Research Board, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Assistant Professor of Journalism and Communication, University of Oregon
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Professor of History, University of Waterloo
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Assistant Professor of Media Law and Policy, University of Oregon
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Interim Director, Carsey School of Public Policy, University of New Hampshire
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Professeur titulaire, École nationale d'administration publique (ENAP)
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National editor and research co-ordinator, Find & Connect web resource, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Sociology and Research Associate in Population Studies, University of Pennsylvania
