West Virginia’s Freedom of Information Act promises its residents the ability to find, acquire, and make use of records kept by government bodies, including arrest records, court records, marriage and divorce certificates, and records of traffic infractions, and this privilege includes the citizens of Flatwoods. This law, itself based on the Freedom of Information Act at the national level, supplies Flatwoods people with specifics concerning instances of governmental intervention, including the names and addresses of those involved, the activities leading up an occurrence, effects and sentences passed down, and more. Both administrators and offenders are able to be held accountable for their choices as a consequence of these laws, that provide the populace with the tools they require to study problems outside of their government.