Senate passes bill to add timelines to Alabama public records law The Alabama Senate on Thursday passed a bill that would require state and local government agencies to respond to public records requests by certain times. Alabama law already says people have a right ... 04/18/2024 - 11:53 am | View Link
Bill proposed to greatly limit public access to government records Louisianans may soon lose access to great swaths of government records currently made available upon request under the state public records law. The proposal, Senate Bill 482, which is backed by Gov. 04/18/2024 - 10:32 am | View Link
Bill advances to exempt most Louisiana government records from public disclosure Public records laws are part of “sunshine laws” that every state and the federal government have put in place to ensure transparency. 04/18/2024 - 6:41 am | View Link
Bills limiting access to public records advance from Senate committee Lawmakers on the Senate and Governmental Affairs Committee voted 6-2 to advance a bill that would gut much of Louisiana’s public records law. They also advanced a bill to require identification to ... 04/17/2024 - 11:00 pm | View Link
Bills targeting Louisiana’s public records law draw criticism A portion of Senate Bill 482, by Sen. Heather Cloud (R-Turkey Creek), would block access to any records “reflecting advisory opinions, recommendations and deliberations,” that are part of a process by ... 04/15/2024 - 7:23 pm | View Link
Mark Zuckerberg announced the launch of Meta's latest generation of its Llama model on Thursday. STR/JIJI Press/AFP via Getty ImagesMeta launched the latest iteration of its chatbot, Llama 3, on Thursday. Mark Zuckerberg said the chatbot is "state-of-the-art" and has improved reasoning. However, no model, including Meta's, poses "existential risks," he told The Verge.
Iranians are waving Iranian flags and a Palestinian flag while one of them is holding a portrait of Qassem Soleimani, the former commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' (IRGC) Quds Force, in celebration of Iran's IRGC UAV and missile attack against Israel, in downtown Tehran, Iran, on April 14, 2024.
Liz Humphreys and her family are going through reverse culture shock after returning to New York from Berlin. JF GrossenLiz Humphreys moved to Europe with her husband and raised her son in Berlin until he was 6. After moving back to New York, she was surprised by all of the rules surrounding kids.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk weighed in on the severance offered to laid-off staff earlier in the week. Antonio Masiello/Getty ImagesTesla sent notices canceling some separation agreements, according to two laid-off employees and a notification seen by Business Insider. Elon Musk previously stated some severance packages were "incorrectly low."The cancellations came after some workers received severance offers for two months of pay.
In this courtroom sketch, former President Donald Trump smiles to the jury pool as he is introduced to them at the beginning of his New York criminal trial on April 15, 2024. Jane Rosenberg/Pool Photo via APSeven men and five women have been selected as jurors for Donald Trump's criminal trial.
Prime Video, Showtime, Universal, ABC Photo Archives Disney General Entertainment Content/Getty, Pascal Le Segretain/Getty,From Jeffrey Beaumont in "Blue Velvet" to Agent Dale Cooper in "Twin Peaks," Kyle MacLachlan spent his early career playing boyish heroes who are drawn into worlds that are much darker and stranger than they appear. The contours of that darkness weren't always appreciated at the time.