Traveling more than 1,000 miles over the course of five days, Courthouse News journalists visited 25 Virginia circuit courts to report on civil complaints filed in those courthouses. Their goal was to ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Virginia NAACP filed a lawsuit Friday alleging Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s administration failed to turn over public records to explain how it decides whether to restore the voting ...

(CN) — Virginia has put in place a statewide system of access to court records. But it is blacked out to the public and the press. The online records room is controlled by the chief court ...

Citing the "working papers" exemption of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act, state officials withheld an email attachment related to policies concerning transgender students. Like every other ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The Virginia NAACP said it paid nearly $20,000 for access to public records concerning the “Election Integrity Unit” created by Attorney General Jason Miyares. The Freedom of ...

Background: In 2022, Heather Sawyer, executive director of the nonprofit government watchdog American Oversight, submitted several Virginia Freedom of Information Act requests for records related to ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Judge Adrianne Bennett, the former chairwoman of Virginia’s Parole Board, was suspended from the bench last year amid an intensifying scandal over the board’s handling of ...

A Newport News task force revealed its preliminary findings in a recent meeting, the most public update yet in a process many ...