Amicus Brief in metadat...

Click here to read the amicus brief that was filed in the Arizona Supreme Court on behalf of the First Amendment Coalition of Arizona, the Society of Professional Journalists and the Arizona Newspapers Association in Lake v. City of Phoenix. I think the brief turned out well and many...

Sedona reporter tests R...

Tommy Acosta, editor of the Sedona Times and a freelance writer for Sedona.biz, has been ordered by the Sedona Magistrate Court to show cause why he should not be found in “indirect civil contempt” for allegedly videotaping a court proceeding. Jennifer S. Paetkau, an assistant city...

Ariz. appeals court rul...

A divided Arizona appellate court has ruled that hidden electronic data that indicate how and when documents are produced with word-processing computer programs aren’t themselves public records. Read more:...

Final Report on Rule 12...

Rule 123, Rules of the Supreme Court of Arizona, governs public access to records maintained by the judiciary. The foundation of the Rule is that court records should be open to everyone. But exactly what information should be available to the public online for individual cases? Should...