Danielle Switalski spends time with the watchdogs of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Talia Pines traces the resignation of a state official to public records requests

Michael Merline finds it sometimes pays to be a journalist

Jacob Kushner and Rachel Hass examine public-records delays, denials and costs

Anna Speaker profiles a small-town journalist who’s shaking things up

Sasha Goldstein investigates the high costs of accessing public records

Evan Hall profiles bloggers who use public records law

Ashley Siefert analyzes the effects of a controversial Supreme Court ruling

Abram Shandeling explores why training of public employees is so important

Jake Harris looks into the rules of redacting

Sara Winter probes the disparities that exist in access to closed session minutes

Meredith Clanfield asks whether e-mails of public employees are public records

Andy Koritz talks with records custodians for their perspectives

Lavilla Capener contrasts the public’s right to know with privacy concerns