Legislation that would shield thousands of past court cases from public view could violate the First Amendment’s right of access to judicial records, according to two Virginia attorneys who ...

For the first time in Virginia’s history, people with past convictions will be able to have their record sealed from public ...

Virginia’s court bureaucracy had set up a system of public access that is not public but instead favors lawyers and government officials. A news reporter must travel to each individual courthouse to ...

Next summer, certain people with past convictions will be eligible to apply for their criminal records to be sealed — meaning long-past convictions won’t show up on background checks.

Likewise, justices on the Supreme Court of Virginia also left that question ... the annual reports should be considered part of the public record. The State Corporation Commission currently ...

The Virginia Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that circuit court clerks are the legal custodians of certain court records and not ... sought was and is public, but the effect of the ruling is ...