President Donald J. Trump signed Executive Order 14176, Declassification of Records Concerning the Assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on January 23, 2025. Records relating to the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy that have been released will be available on this webpage and will be added on a rolling basis. The table below displays the file names and links to all of the documents released related to the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. For records released on April 18, 2025, researchers may encounter a combination of black and white and colored scans. Here’s why: black and white scans were used in order to more efficiently facilitate the prioritized interagency review process. However, some pages were not legible in black and white. When the National Archives encountered unreadable pages, they were replaced with legible color scans.

Petersburg City Council censured one of its members for allegedly directing a racial slur at the police chief during an argument after Tuesday night’s council meeting. It is the second censure in as many years for Ward 4 Councilor Charlie Cuthbert, but the first time it was done in public. In March of 2024, Cuthbert was censured for actions resulting in “disruption in the city’s ongoing operations” and “negatively” impacting the work of council after he was accused of trying to coerce city administration and staff into following his will. That censure was not publicly addressed out of consideration for Cuthbert’s re-election bid to council, according to the beginning of the letter issued Wednesday. The Progress-Index obtained a copy of the second letter confirming that action.

On the night before Virginia government expert Bill Leighty was fired from his teaching and advisory role at VCU’s L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs, former Gov. Doug Wilder sent the school’s dean an email accusing Leighty of “prejudicial” behavior. Wilder didn’t elaborate on what he felt Leighty had done wrong, but the email was part of a discussion thread about a dispute that arose over topics to be discussed at a March 19 question-and-answer session the Wilder School hosted with Richmond Mayor Danny Avula. “I find Mr. Leighty’s actions prejudicial against me and I will follow next steps,” Wilder wrote to Dean Susan Gooden on the evening of March 20, according to documents The Richmonder obtained from VCU through a Freedom of Information Act request. Leighty says Wilder School communications director David Slipher sent him a text message during the event urging him to ask the first two questions as if they had come from an anonymous audience member even though they were “From Governor Wilder.” To back up his account, Leighty posted a screenshot of that text message on his Facebook page. According to the exchange Leighty posted, Slipher said he was just following “marching orders.” Leighty replied that he had “stopped marching” when he left the U.S. Marine Corps.

Following a vote by the University’s Board of Visitors March 7 to dissolve the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, the University declined to share information surrounding the changes made with the community. At the time of publication, The Cavalier Daily had made several requests for an update on these changes. University Spokesperson Brian Coy said that the University did not have information to share at this time.

I filed a Freedom of Information Act request to get a copy of the contract of the new Virginia Tech Basketball general manager, Nelson Hernandez, the goal being, to dive into the contract language to see how the job is being structured. I didn’t get anything on that from what I got back yesterday from Virginia Tech, but there were a couple of other interesting tidbits. The offer sheet that I got back from the FOIA office at Tech reveals the salary for Hernandez is $200,000, with $50,000 in supplemental compensation, and the term of the deal is just one year, with expiration date of April 30, 2026.

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis vetoed a bill on Thursday that transparency advocates said would hurt the public’s ability to access government records. Polis’ rejection of the measure, which passed with strong bipartisan support, potentially sets up a rare override vote with lawmakers in the closing weeks of the session. The outcome will decide how long people might have to wait for their school districts, city halls and other governments to provide them records they’re seeking. SB25-077 would have given governments more time to respond to records requests from the public and businesses while exempting journalists from the delays. The bill’s sponsors said governments were being “inundated” with records requests and need longer deadlines to respond to them. Critics of the bill said it could result in more governments “dragging their feet” to fulfill the requests. Some also raised concerns about exempting journalists from the extended deadlines.

The City of Lansing (Michigan) has asked a judge to dismiss the public records lawsuit the Republican National Committee filed in February. The RNC sued over what it said were excessively high fees — nearly $5,000 — the city charged in response to a public records request submitted on Nov. 26. The RNC is seeking copies of surveillance video from absentee ballot drop boxes in the city on Nov. 5, Election Day. Similar requests had been sent to East Lansing, Delta Township, Flint, Detroit, Battle Creek and Muskegon, among others. Lansing charged significantly more for its records, according to the RNC lawsuit. Lansing estimated a $4,795 fee and $2,397 deposit to provide the video footage, while other cities estimated less than $700, including East Lansing, which wanted about $300, and Battle Creek, which charged $140.

Four current and former Seattle police officers are seeking intervention from the U.S. Supreme Court to prevent the release of their identities in connection with their attendance at President Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” rally on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C. When then-Seattle Police Chief Adrian Diaz learned that six of his officers traveled to Washington, D.C., to attend the rally, he ordered the Office of Police Accountability (OPA) to investigate their activities to see if they broke any laws or department policies. Investigators said three other officers had not violated policies and the fourth case was ruled “inconclusive.” The four officers said they did nothing wrong and that revealing their names would violate their privacy, but those seeking disclosure said the officers’ attendance at a widely covered public demonstration that drew thousands was not a private activity.