The number of open meeting law complaints and violations reported to the attorney general’s office in 2025 rose above 2024 levels and many more complaints were sent to public bodies directly.

A new federal law mandates colleges and universities to report hazing violations. The Journal Sentinel searched for reports from more than 30 Wisconsin institutions. UW-Madison reported the most ...

Almost a year after winning election to the school board, the new majority continues to have to wade through the Nevada Open Meeting law violations racked up by their predecessors. Public commenters ...

A Conway church coffee shop was found in violation of child labor laws after a Department of Labor review.

BOSTON (SHNS) – A firearm was used in 13,414 crimes in Massachusetts over the course of 2022 and 2023, a nearly 14% increase over the preceding two-year period that state officials largely attributed ...

The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide whether two federal laws that allow lawsuits in U.S. courts for torture and serious violations of international law permit private lawsuits for aiding and ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), a member of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry ...

Since the Dodd–Frank Act of 2010, the SEC has fundamentally reshaped how securities fraud and corporate misconduct are detected and addressed. Through its Office of the Whistleblower (OWB), the ...