| Access to Electronic Records - a 50-state survey of constitutional provisions, statutes, court decisions, attorney general opinions and gubernatorial executive orders concerning access to electronic records. Produced by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.
Books:
Henry Perritt Jr., Law and the Information Superhighway (1996)
Law Review Articles:
Barbara S. Accetta, Can Courtroom Doors be Closed When Minor Victim Testifies in Sex Offense Trials?, 16 Suffolk U. Law Rev. (1982).
Christopher C. Alexander and Kelly Jo Slone, Thinking About the Private Matters in Public Documents: Bankruptcy Privacy in an Electronic Age , 75 Am. Bankr. L.J. 437 (2001).
Joseph F. Anderson, Symposium: Secrecy in Litigation: Foreword: Secrecy in Litigation: The Healthy Debate Continues, 81 Chi.-Kent. L. Rev. 301 (2006).
Allan Ashman, Public Records... Right of Access, 67 A.B.A. Jl. (1981).
R. James Assaf, Mr. Smith Comes Home: The Constitutional Presumption of Openness in Local Legislative Meetings, 40 Case W. Res. 227 (1990).
Benjamin H. Bagdikian, Access to the Media- Right of Access- a modest proposal, 8 Columbia Jou. Rev. (1969).
Brooke Barnett, Use of Public Record Databases in Newspaper and Television Newsrooms, 53 Fed. Comm. L.J. 557 (2001).
Christopher Beall, The Exaltation of Privacy Doctrines Over Public Information Law, 45 Duke L.J. 1249 (1996).
R.R. Belair, Less Government Secrecy & More Personal Privacy? Experience with the Freedom of Information and Privacy Acts , 4 Civil Liberties Rev. (1977).
Jennifer A. Bensch, Government in the Sunshine Act: Seventeen Years Later: Has Government Let the Sun Shine In?, 61 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. (1993).
Arminda Bepko, Public Availability or Practical Obscurity: The Debate Over Public Access to Court Records on the Internet,49 N.Y.L. Sch. L. Rev. 967 (2004).
Jerry Berman, The Right to Know: Public Access to Electronic Public Information, 3 Software L.J. 491 (1989).
Ira Bloom, Freedom of Information Laws in the Digital Age: The Death Knell of Informational Privacy, 12 Rich. J.L. & Tech. 9 (2006).
Mark D. Bloom, David M. Olenczuk and Richard Wynne, Reorganizing in a Fish Bowl: Public Access vs. Protecting Confidential Information, 73 Am. Bankr. L.J. 775 (1999).
Melissa Bowman, Open Debate over Closed Doors: The Effect of the New Developmental Disabilities Regulations on Protection and Advocacy Programs, 85 Ky. L.J. 995 (1996).
Robert N. Brailas, Press Access to Government-Controlled Information and the Alternative Means Test, 59 Tex. L. Rev. (1981).
Nicholas Bramble, Note: Preparing Academic Scholarship for an Open Access World, 20 Harv. J. Law & Tec 209 (Fall, 2006).
Christopher Brancart, Rethinking the State Secrets Privilege, 9 Whittier Law Rev. (1987).
Burt A. Braverman, Chrysler Corp. v. Brown: Protecting business secrets in the 1980s, 4 Corp. L. Rev. (1980).
Burt A. Braverman & Wesley R. Heppler, A Practical Review of State Open Records Laws, 49 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. (1981).
Edwin C. Bridges, State Record Laws and the Preservation of an Archival Record, 18 Bull Am. Soc. Info. Science 1 (1991).
Kenneth Brown, The Internet Privacy Debate, 6 Int'l J. Comm. L. & Pol'y 1, 2000/2001.
Bohan Bugaric, Openness and Transparency in Public Communication:
Challenges for Public Law,22 Wis. Int'l L.J. 483 (2004).
Matthew D. Bunker, Have it Your Way? Public Records Law and Computerized Government Information, 73 J&MC Quarterly 90, Spring 1996.
Matthew Bunker et al., Access to Government-Held Information in the Computer Age: Applying Legal Doctrine to Emerging Technology, 20 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. 543 (1993).
A.T. Burch, News Media and the Law, 43 Chi. B. Rec. 297 (1962).
Ellen M. Bush, Access to Governor's Records, Journalism Quarterly 135, Spring 1994.
Clay Calvert, The Privacy of Death: An Emergent Jurisprudence and Legal Rebuke to Media Exploitation and a Voyeuristic Culture, 26 Loy. L.A. Ent. L. Rev. 133 (2005/2006).
Clay Calvert, Victories for privacy and losses for journalism? Five Privacy Controversies from 2004 and Their Policy Implications for the Future of Reportage, 13 J.L. & Pol'y 649 (2005).
Maria W. Campbell, Discovery of Confidential State Documents in Civil Proceedings, 46 Mo. Law Rev. (1981).
Paul G. Cassell, Restriction on Press Coverage of Military Operations: The right of access, Grenada, and "off the record" wars, 73 Geo. Law J. 931 (1985).
Robert L. Chartrance, Public Laws and Public Access, 5 Information Society (1987).
Sarah Coker, Access Denied: How State Laws Limiting Access to Government Reports Result in an Unfair Restriction On Commercial Speech, 43 Brandeis L.J. 667 (2005).
Phillip J. Cooper, Acquisition, Use, and Dissemination of Information: A consideration and critique of the public law perspective, 33 Adv. Law Rev. (1981).
Michael P. Cox, Application of Sunset Principles to State Judicial Functions: The power to appoint, 33 Okla. L. Rev. (1980).
Michael P. Cox, Application of Sunset Principles to State Judicial Functions: Judges as fact finders, 33 Okla. L. Rev. (1980).
Michael P. Cox, Application of Sunset Principles to State Judicial Functions: The ex officio role, 33 Okla. L. Rev. (1980).
Anne E. Crane, Unsealing Adoption Records: The right to know versus the right to privacy, 1986 Annual Survey of American Law. (1987).
J.C. Daly, Ensuring Fair Trials and a Free Press: a task for the presss and the Bar alike, 50 ABA J. 1037 (1964).
Irina Y. Dmitrieva, State Ownership of Copyrights in Primary Law Materials, 23 Hastings Comm. & Ent. L.J. 81 (2001).
Lloyd Doggett and Michael J. Mucchetti, Public Access to Public Courts: Discouraging Secrecy in the Public Interest , 69 Tex. L. Rev. 643 (1991).
Richard A. Dollinger, Public Access to Pretrial Criminal Hearings: The use of closure orders, 44 Albany L. Rev. (1980).
Dennis J. Drasco, Symposium: Public Access to Information in Civil Litigation vs. Litigant's Demand for Privacy: Is the "Vanishing Trial" an Avoidable Consequence?, 2006 J. Disp. Resol. 155 (2006).
Donna Dumas, It its Zeal to Plug Leaks, the Government is Overlooking a Few Things-- Like the First Amendment, 18 Student Lawyer 4. (1987).
Laurie Kratky Dore, Public Courts Versus Private Justice: It's Time to Let Some Sun Shine in on Alternative Dispute Resolution, 81 Chi.-Kent. L. Rev. 463, (2006).
Eric B. Easton, Public Importance: Balancing Proprietary Interests and the Right to Know, 21 Cardozo Arts & Ent LJ 139 (2003).
Nancy L. Eaton, Freedom and Equality of Access to Information - The Lacy Commission Report 39 Library Trends 1-2 (1990).
Robert C. Ellyson & William H. Van Renssellaer, Sunset- Is the Profession Ready for It?, 149 J. Accountancy (1980).
Howard M. Erichson, Symposium: Secrecy in Litigation: Article: Court-Ordered Confidentiality in Discovery, 81 Chi.-Kent. L. Rev. 357 (2006).
Daniel H. Erskine, An Analysis of the Legality of Television Cameras Broadcasting Juror Deliberations in a Criminal Case, 39 Akron L. Rev. 701 (2006).
Anthony L. Fargo, The Journalist's Privilege for Nonconfidential Information in States with Shield Laws, 4 Comm. L. & Pol'y 325, Summer 1999.
Craig D. Feiser, Protecting the Public's Right to Know: The Debate over Privatization and Access to Government Information Under State Law, 27 Fla. St. U.L. Rev. 825 (2000).
Sandra Ferguson Chance & Colleen Connolly-Ahern, Beyond Election 2000: Law & Policy in the New Millennium: A Vote of Confidence? Florida's Public Records Law and the 2000 Presidential Election Recounts: Could It Happen in Another State?, 13 J.Law & Pub. Pol'y 135 (2001).
James L. Forman, Sealing and Unsealing Wrongful Death and Minor Settlement Documents, 13 William Mitchell Law Rev. (1987).
Nancy T. Gardner, Cameras in the Courtroom: Guidelines for state criminal trials, 84 Mich Law Rev. 475 (1985).
Andrew D. Goldstein, Sealing and Revealing: Rethinking the Rules Governing Public Access to Information Generated Through Litigation, 81 Chi.-Kent. L. Rev. 375, (2006).
Bruce D. Goldstein, Confidentiality and Dissemination of Personal Information: an Examination of State Laws Governing Data Protection, 41 Emory L.J. 1185 (1992).
Cynthia Goldstein, Freedom of Information Can Involve Many Fronts, 14 Media Law Notes 1 (1987).
Golston, Garnholm and Robinson, A Nation Less Secure: Diminished Public Access to Information, 21 Harv. Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 409 (Summer 1986).
Richard F. Good, A Rich of Access to a Criminal Courtroom, 51 U. Colo. L. Rev (1980).
Orrin G. Hatch, Balancing Freedom of Information with Confidentiality for Law Enforcement, 9 Jl. Contemp. Law 1 (1983).
Kristin Henning, Eroding Confidentiality in Delinquency Proceedings: Should Schools and Public Housing Authorities be Notified?, 79 N.Y.U.L. Rev. 520 (2004).
Leo Herzel and Richard W. Shepro, Danger Signals Raised by Expanded Disclosure,
198 New York Law Journal 1 (1987).
R. Michael Hoefges, The Use of State Criminal and Accident Records for Targeted, Direct-Mail Solicitations: Commercial Speech, Access and Privacy, 3 Comm. L. & Pol'y 331, Spring 1998.
W. Holmes, "Public Records" - Who knows what they are?, 23 American Archivist, (1960).
F. Horton, Public's Right to Know , 3 NC Cent. L. J. 123 (1972).
Stephen K. Huber, Mandatory Disclosure of Information about Banks, 6 Annual Rev. of Banking Law (1987).
Daniel F. Hunter, Electronic Mail and Michigan's Public Disclosure Laws: The Argument for Public Access to Governmental Electronic Mail, 28 U. Mich. J.L. Reform 977 (1995).
Sharon Iorio, How State Open Meetings Laws Now Compare with Those of 1974, 62 Journalism Quarterly 741, Winter 1985.
Elliot Jaspin and Mark Sabelman, News Media Access to Computer Records: Updating Information Laws in the Electronic Age, 36 St. Louis U. L.J. 349 (1991).
Joint Legis. Info. Tech. Resource Comm., Electronic Records Access: Problems and Issues 34 (1994).
Michele Johnson, Of Public Interest: How Courts Handle Rape Victims' Privacy Suits, 4 Comm. L. & Pol'y, Spring 1999.
E. Jones, The Law and the Press, the Release of Official Information, and the Public Interest, 2 Journalism Today (1970).
B.L. Kaiser, Patients' Rights of Access to Their Own Medical Records: the need for new law , 24 Buffalo Law Rev. (1975).
Timothy L. Kern, Peering Into the Courtroom: An analysis of the public interest, 15 Val. U.L. Rev. (1981).
William O. Key, Jr., The Common Law Right to Inspect and Copy Judicial Records: In camera or on camera, 16 Ga. Law Rev. (1982).
Michael D. Kirby, Access to Information and Privacy: The Ten Information Commandments, 55 U. Cincinatti Law Rev. (1987).
Sidne Koenigsberg, Contract Options for Individual Artists: Library Records Open to Parental Scrutiny: A New Set of Internet Access Controls for Minors?, 29 Colum. J.L. & Arts 361, (2006).
Frederick T. Kolb, Settlement Documents are Public Records, 29 La. B. J. 30 (1981).
James C. Lemay, A Definitional Approach to Secondary School Students' Right to Know, 42 Ohio St. Law J. (1981).
Donald M. Levy, Jr. & Debra J. Duncan, Judicial Review of Administrative Rulemaking and Enforcement Discretion: The effect of a presumption of unreviewability, 55 Geo. Wash. Law Rev. 596 (1987).
J.W. Little & T. Tompkins, Open Government Laws: an insider's view , 53 NC Law Rev. (1975).
Gary T. Lowenthal, The Disclosure of Arrest Records to the Public Under the Uniform Criminal History Records Act, 28 Jurimetrics Journal 1 (1987).
Nancy S. Marder, Symposium: Secrecy in Litigation: Article: Introduction to Secrecy in Litigation, 81 Chi.-Kent. L. Rev. 305 (2006).
Leslie L. Marshall, Telford: Casting Sunlight on Shadow Governments - Limits to the Delegation of Government Power to Associations of Officials and Agencies, 24 Seattle Univ. L.R. 139 (2000).
Susan G. Maurer, Access to Sealed Settlement Documents Granted Based on Common Law Right of Access to Judicial Proceedings, 60 Temple Law Quarterly (1987).
Ronald D. May, Recent Development: Public Access to Civil Court Records: A Common Law Approach, 39 Vand. L. Rev. 1465 (1986).
J.L. McGrew, How to Let in the Sunshine Without Getting Burned: protecting your rights before advisory committees , 30 Food, Drug, Cosm. Law J. (1975).
William McHenry Horne, Note: The Moment to Open Juvenile Courts: Realizing the Significance of Public Discourse in First Amendment Analysis, 39 Ind. L. Rev. 649 (2006).
Carl C. Monk, Media Access to Court Proceedings, 50 Kan. Bar Assn. Jl. (1981).
Patrick Mueller, Every Time You Brake, Every Turn You Make - I'll Be Watching You: Protecting Driver Privacy in Event Data Recorder Information, 2006 Wis. L. Rev. 135 (2006).
Jessica M. Natale, Exploring Virtual Legal Presence: The Present and the Promise, 1 J. High Tech L. 157 (2002).
Eric Neeser, Court Lets us Know for Whom the Phone Bill Tolls, 1992 New Jersey Law Journal 16. (1992).
Milo Nelson, Can You Keep a Secret? Use of encoding technique to protect government communications, 10 Information Today 6 (1993).
Laurie A. O'Connell, The Applicability of Open-Meeting Legislation to Quasi-Judicial Bodies, Utah L. Rev. (1981).
John F. O'Connor and Michael J. Baratz, Some Assembly Required: The Application Of State Open Meeting Laws To Email Correspondence, 12 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 719 (2004).
J.F. O'Leary, Right to be Informed , 54 Mass L. Q. 63 (1969).
Robert L. Park, Restricting Information: A dangerous game, 5 Issues in Sci. & Technology 1 (1988).
James R. Parramore, State Constitutions and the Press: Historical Context and Resurgence of a Libertarian Tradition, 69 Gov. Info. Quarterly 105 (1992).
Dan Paul & Richard L. Ovelmen, Access Litigation, 6 Litigation 31 (1980).
Dan Paul, Richard J. Ovelmen, Laura Besvinick & Frank Burt, Access, Communications Law, November 10, 1988.
Maria Perez Crist, Preserving the Duty to Preserve: The Increasing Vulnerability of Electronic Information, 58 S.C. L. Rev. 7 (Fall, 2006).
Henry H. Perritt, Jr., Sources of Rights to Access Public Information , 4 Wm. & Mary Bill of Rts. J. 179 (1995).
Barbara A. Petersen and Charlie Roberts, Access to Electronic Public Records, 22 Fla. St. U.L. Rev. 443 (1994).
Ann Plamondon, Recent Developments in Law of Access, 63 Journalism Quarterly 61, Spring 1986.
Jamison Prime, A Double-Barreled Assault: How Technology and Judicial Interpretations Threaten Public Access to Law Enforcement Records, 48 Fed. Comm. L.J. 341 (1996).
Teresa D. Pupillo, The Changing Weather Forecast: Government in the Sunshine in the 1990s--An Analysis of State Sunshine Laws, 71 Wash. U. L. Q. 1165 (1993).
Louis S. Raveson, Unmasking the Motives of Government Decision-makers: A subpoena for your thoughts?, 63 N.C. Law Rev. 879 (1985).
Judith Resnik, Symposium: Secrecy in Litigation: Article: Uncovering, Disclosing, and Discovering How the Public Dimensions of Court-Based Processes Are at Risk, 81 Chi.-Kent. L. Rev. 521 (2006).
Peter O. Safir & Glenn E. Davis, Disclosure of Pesticide Safety Data: A viable compromise at last?, 12 Envtl. Law Rep. (1982).
Victoria S. Salzmann, Are Public Records Really Public?: The Collision Between the Right to Privacy and the Release of Public Court Records Over the Internet, , 52 Baylor L. Rev. 355 (2000).
Robert H. Sand, Restrictions on General and Duty Clause Citations; Union Access to Health and Safety Data, 8 Empl. Rel. Law. J. (1982).
Sandra Sanders, Arizona's Public Records Laws and the Technology Age: Applying "Paper" Laws to Computer Records, 37 Ariz. L. Rev. 931 (1995).
Sandra Davidson Scott, Suggestions for a Model Statute for Access to Computerized Government Records, 2 Wm. and Mary Bill of Rights J. 29 (1993).
Cheryl M. Sheinkopf, Balancing Free Speech, Privacy and Open Government: Why Government Should Not Restrict the Truthful Reporting of Public Record Information, 44 UCLA L. Rev. 1567 (1997).
Edward F. Sherman, Confidentiality in ADR Proceedings: Policy Issues Arising from the Texas Experience, 38 S. Tex. L. Rev. 541 (1997).
Harold B. Shill, Information "Publics" and Equitable Access to Electronic Government Information: The case of agriculture, 9 Government Info. Q. 3 (1992).
N.E. Shurtz, University in the Sunshine: Application of the open meeting laws to the university setting , 5 J. Law & Education (1976).
John B. Smith, Public Access to Information Privately Submitted to Government Agencies: Balancing the needs of regulated businesses and the public, 57 Wash. Law Rev. (1982).
Thomas Snyder, Restricting Prisoners' Freedom of Information: Balancing Inmate Rights and Public Privacy Concerns, 2000 L. Rev. M.S.U.-D.C.L. 765 (2000).
Daniel J. Solove, Access and Aggregation: Public Records, Privacy and the Constitution, 86 Minn. L. Rev. 1137 (2002).
Elizabeth E. Spainhour, Unsealing Settlements: Recent Efforts To Expose Settlement Agreements That Conceal Public Hazards , 82 N.C.L. Rev. 2155 (2004).
Michael Spake, Public Access to Physician and Attorney Disciplinary Proceedings, 21 J. NAALJ 289 (2001).
Sigman Splichal, The Evolution of Computer/Privacy Concerns: Access to Government Information Held in the Balance, 1 Comm. L. & Pol'y 203, 1996.
Lisa K. Starczewski, Media Access to Tape-Recorded Evidence in Criminal Trials, 32 Vill. Law Rev. 183 (1987).
Stuart M. Statler, Let the Sunshine In?, 67 A.B.A. Jl. (1981).
Joan Steinman, Public Trial, Pseudonymous Parties: When should litigants be permitted to keep their identities confidential?, 37 Hastings Law J. 1 (1985).
Susan P. Stuart, Lex-Prazis of Educational Informational Privacy for Public Schoolchildren, 84 Neb. L. Rev. 1158, (2006).
James H. Swain, Protecting Individual Employees, Is It Safe to Complain About Safety?, 9 U. Bridgeport Law Rev. (1988).
Samuel A. Terillli & Sigman L. Splichal, Public Access to Autopsy and Death-Scene Photographs: Relational Privacy, Public Records, and Avoidable Collisions, 10 Comm. L. & Pol'y 313 (2005).
Meliah Thomas, The First Amendment Right of Access to Docket Sheets, 94 Calif. L. Rev. 1537, (2006).
Thomas H. Tucker, Sunshine- The Dubious New God, 32 Ad. Law Rev. (1980).
J.M. Vache, M.J. Makibe, Privacy in Government: Philosophical perspectives and proposals for legislation , 14 Gonzaga Law Rev. (1979).
Norman Vieira, Unwarranted Government Disclosures: Reflections on Privacy Rights, HIV and ad hoc Balancing, 47 Wayne L. Rev. 173 (2001).
H.H. Voight, Public Access to Intra-agency Documents: the International Paper case, 4 Natural Resources Law 554 (1971).
P.C. Ward, Public's Access to Government-- Freedom of Information, Privacy, and Sunshine Acts: an address , 70 Law Lib. J. (1977).
David G. Warren, Patient Medical Information and Records in the United States: Disclosure and access, 2 Health Law Can 5 (1981).
Kenneth A. Weber, State Public Records Acts: The need to exempt scientific research belonging to state universities from indiscriminate public disclosure . 10 J.C. & U.L. (1983).
R.G. Weclew, Fair Trial--Equal in Value to Free Press, 16 De Paul L. Rev. 353 (1967).
Joseph R. Weisberger, A Tale of Two Privileges, 15 Suffolk U. L. Rev. (1981).
D.Q. Wickham, Let the Sun Shine In! Open meeting legislation can be our key to closed doors in state and local government , 68 Nw. U. Law Rev. (1973).
Francis A. Wong, Preserving Government Electronic Information: Whose Job is It? Speakers Debate Who Will Throw the Life Preserver to Government Electronic Information, 6 AALL Spectrum 30 (2001).
William A. Wright, Public Access to Vote-Counting Software, 1995 U.Chi. Leg. Forum 547 (1995).
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