Agencies often cite the privilege when denying records requests, but RCFP's Gunita Singh offers journalists tips to avoid rejection. This is Part 2 of a two-part series on FOIA’s deliberative process ...

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The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1966, and the intention of the law is to make the federal government’s functioning a bit more transparent to ...

If you want to know how much money the city of Chicago spends on holiday parade security in a given year, you can file an open records request with the city for the details. If you want to know how a ...

One year ago, KOAA filed a 64 word public records request with the Air Force Academy (USAFA), seeking email records between ...

This column was originally published in the November 2022 issue of The Tennessee Press, the official publication of the Tennessee Press Association. As a member of the Tennessee Press Association, you ...

Visit the newly minted FOIA.gov website, and you’ll see various statistics on FOIA requests and processing times. For 2023, the average processing time for simple requests for all agencies ranged from ...

LANSING — Obtaining state records that shed light on how the State of Michigan falsely accused tens of thousands of its citizens of fraud has not been quick or easy. The state or local agency has five ...