As Department of Justice officials are working to acquire sensitive voter registration data from states and have recently disclosed a plan to share it with the Department of Homeland Security, a key ...

(The Center Square) – An Illinois lawmaker and law enforcement officer says a controversial proposal to change how police records are handled under the state’s public records law could help agencies ...

A graduate research project is raising questions about how longstanding transparency laws may be creating unintended risks for homeland security in the digital age. In her thesis, Leaving the FOIA ...

The IAPP's Washington, D.C., office reviews the first public draft of U.S. House Republicans' consumer privacy bill, the ...

The SECURE Data Act is the product of a Republican data privacy working group led by Rep. John Joyce (R-PA), who introduced ...

Tech companies like Google, Facebook and Microsoft are ignoring data controls mandated under California law, researchers say.

A new memo from the Justice Department says President Donald Trump no longer has to follow a Watergate-era law barring him from holding on to presidential records when he leaves office. It is the ...

California Democrats are being ripped over a bill that one state assembly member has dubbed the "Stop Nick Shirley Act," which he argues would "criminalize ...

California bill aimed at protecting immigration providers draws backlash as critics label it the Stop Nick Shirley Act and ...

The 83% statistic comes from a well-respected pollster. It asked Americans about voter ID, but not about the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act. The poll was conducted in 2025, before the bill ...

Assemblymember Mia Bonta insists AB 2624 won’t impact journalists. But some legal experts are concerned it would still ...

A Democratic-backed proposal to expand privacy protections for immigrant services providers gets tangled in a debate about ...