A social media post circulating in recent days claims that BJC Healthcare “revokes” parents’ access to their child’s medical information.

As news outlets sue over public records access, Today in Ohio warns of a "cooked" judiciary creating dangerous precedents ...

That’s what Sen. Heather Cloud, R-Turkey Creek, fears would happen if the public were made privy to the state government’s deliberative records — records they can already access. Public safety is the ...

If you gave up on doing HITECH requests and went back to sending requests to providers with the patient's direction to send the records right to you, following up relentlessly, getting records, and ...

There is a downside associated with online anonymity where studies have shown that people are more likely to behave in a dishonest or morally questionable way when they can hide behind their anonymity ...

Could interest in what happened to the Washington Bridge be a catalyst for changes to state open-records law that make it easier for the public to find out what state and local governments are doing?

Lake County and Geauga County clerks of court are facing a lawsuit from Courthouse News Service that argue they are violating ...

Survey says district courts provided access or partial access 90 percent of time. HARRISBURG — Public access advocates have barely had time to catch their collective breath following the all-out push ...

HHS’ Office for Civil Rights has issued guidance to help individuals understand their rights to access their health information under HIPAA. In general, HIPAA covered entities must provide individuals ...

The Arts, Sciences & Engineering (AS&E) faculty voted yesterday to restrict teachers' access to student transcripts, addressing concerns about privacy violations and legality raised by the current ...

A federal court has ruled against the U.S. Department of Justice in its attempt to secure private medical records belonging ...

The dispute over having an emotional support animal is settled. Now residents want to see what happened behind closed doors, ...