The Justice Department issued new Freedom of Information Act guidelines on Monday, underscoring the need to have a “presumption of openness.” The release came at the beginning of the annual Sunshine ...
In the case filed May 26, Biden "seeks to halt (DOJ’s) plan" to release his private information that was previously exempt ...
A search tool was added Wednesday to the federal government’s website for Freedom of Information Act requests, a move intended to ease public efforts in finding commonly requested information. The ...
This is the first installment of Revealing Records, a periodic column by Nate Jones about his work obtaining public records for The Washington Post. Few things make a journalist happier than receiving ...
New AI-powered assistants and expanded workflow capabilities strengthen Casepoint FOIA, reinforcing its position as the ...
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. In January, CJR contributors published a selection of FOIA best practices, based on an analysis of more than 33,000 such ...
Circuit Court Judge Stephen Carras will issue written opinion on whether Midland Public Schools overcharged a district critic ...
When her daughter started kindergarten, Miriam Bhimani was eager to get more context about how decisions were being made at the Chicago elementary school. So she started writing requests to the ...
A new Interior Department rule could make it harder for news organizations and nonprofits to get public information from the government. Filed to the Federal Register between Christmas and New Year’s ...
Boasting wide, bipartisan support from Michiganders, transparency in government runs on the behind-the-scenes, often invisible, work of public servants working for local municipalities. The Freedom of ...
The Reporters Committee provides a variety of resources on public records and open meetings laws, also known as sunshine laws, right to know laws, or freedom of information acts. These laws provide a ...
Richmond has officially launched a new Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) platform, saying it will speed up the FOIA process ...