FOIA
This Florida newspaper sued for a city manager’s text messages and won a bigger public records victory
Early this month, Tallahassee’s City Commission approved a settlement with The Tallahassee Democrat in a…
How the Freedom of Information Act applies to federal agencies
Freedom of information is instrumental to journalism and essential for democracy. FOI laws grant you…
Report: Access to government information will probably worsen in the Trump administration
Journalists will probably have to fight harder than ever for access to government information under…
Journalists around the country are joining a Slack channel devoted to FOIA and Trump
A few days before President Trump's inauguration, MuckRock opened up a Slack channel to help…
FOIA Machine is joining MuckRock
MuckRock, the nonprofit dedicated to transparency and open government, announced Tuesday that it's adding FOIA…
FOIA Wiki launches in beta
A new tool launched on Monday seeks to work as both a resource and a…
7 lessons from BuzzFeed’s ‘FOIA-friendly newsroom’
Does your newsroom have a public records strategy? Do you track how many Freedom of…
Running into a brick wall with your FOIA request? Take it public
When I’m having trouble getting public records from a government agency, I’ll often turn to…
Here’s why you can’t successfully FOIA President Obama’s ‘Game of Thrones’ screener
Do you remember your first Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request? Vanessa Golembewski, a features…
What should you FOIA? There’s a new tool to help you figure that out.
Max Galka has worked most of his career in finance and insurance. With that work,…
Reporter reveals ‘12 kinds of emails’ professor got after blocking media
I remember watching coverage of the protests at the University of Missouri in November and…
Can FOIA be funny?
Can FOIA be funny? Curtis Raye thinks so. He has created a comedy show celebrating…
Ask for check registers and other public records tips you probably haven’t thought of
Check out the checks. (Photo by jridgewayphotography/Flickr) I was at a journalism conference in Nashville…
Top 10 tips for getting public records
Have you ever been denied a public record? Or worse, has your request been ignored?…