Just before legislators ended their lame-duck session, they slammed the door on public access to records of a key law enforcement officer: Pennsylvania's county coroners. Gov. Ed Rendell needs to pull out his veto pen to keep the change from becoming law. Read More…

It has been five months since an Allegheny County judge ordered the Pittsburgh Police Bureau to turn over arrest reports from the G-20 Summit to the Citizen Police Review Board. Since then, the city first provided reports that were redacted so heavily the board found them to be useless and then challenged the court's order by refusing to provide the information. Read More…

Pittsburgh's Stadium Authority violated state open-meeting rules when a majority of members spoke privately by phone a day before the authority's first public meeting this year, a media law expert said Tuesday. Read More…