“Every person in Connecticut benefits from the Freedom of Information Act, even the ones who resist it. For the past 35 years, Colleen Murphy has been in the front ranks of protecting our right to know, many of those years Continue reading Rennie: Connecticut is losing a champion of open government as temptations to subvert right-to-know abound
02/20/2026 Connecticut Law Tribune Editorial “Our Republic, and its press, will rise or fall together,” predicted Joseph Pulitzer in 1904. Today, fresh setbacks, large and small, are undermining the Fourth Estate. In an unprecedented cut, corporate decision-makers are firing a Continue reading Connecticut Law Tribune: Will propaganda turn credibility to dust?
02/28/2026 By Joe Wojtas, Managing Editor The Day, New London If you don’t think the blanket redactions and refusal to release the Epstein documents don’t impact the transparency of federal, state and local officials and how they view public information Continue reading Column: Epstein redactions give officials motivation to ignore FOI
01/30/2026 By Paul Bass and Michele Jacklin Local school boards across Connecticut have found a way to violate the spirit of Connecticut’s open-government law — by following the letter of the law. In the process they are giving their public Continue reading School boards need an open-government refresher
Editorial, The Day of New London May 27, 2025 Read the full editorial here. Connecticut’s Freedom of Information Act turns 50 this year, and there are plenty of examples of news stories during its golden anniversary year that it is Continue reading Editorial: FOI exemption bill is a bad call
03/06/2025 By Michele Jacklin In a hearing before state legislators last month, Terrence Cheng, chancellor of the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities (CSCU) system, apologized again and again. He apologized for inappropriate spending and misuse of a state credit card Continue reading Michele Jacklin: CSCU Chancellor Cheng’s misspending and the public’s right to know
By Chris Powell (Full column can be viewed here.) Connecticut’s Freedom of Information Act, enacted in 1975, turns 50 this year, the legacy of Gov. Ella T. Grasso, who vigorously advocated it, and the Watergate scandal of the previous two Continue reading Chris Powell: Open government at 50: Principle isn’t practice
01/28/2025 by Mitchell W. Pearlman The full column can be viewed at the Connecticut Mirror, here. It has been reported that the Mexican government plans to shut down that nation’s highly respected National Institute for Access to Information (INAI), the Continue reading Mitchell Pearlman: CT’s FOI law turns 50. Let’s shoot for 100
10/03/2024 By Connecticut Law Tribune Editorial Board As long as history remembers, the powerful have feared those below them will learn what they know. Hence trade guilds’ secrecy, fear of slaves’ literacy, women’s education… knowledge being power, the powerful aren’t Continue reading Connecticut Law Tribune: Progress made against burying unsolved crimes in ‘open investigations’
Read the full editorial here. Connecticut legislators are once again seeking to curtail the state’s freedom-of-information law, ostensibly in service of “protecting” academics from the dangerous hoi polloi. Rep. Gregg Haddad, D-Mansfield, has resurrected last year’s proposal to shield taxpayer-funded Continue reading Waterbury Republican-American: Don’t erode freedom of information
