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Keep Your Dogs in a Row

For National Dog Day (August 26), we've been collecting records from each state's most populous city, finding the most common dog names across the country. Here is where we are keeping our dog licensing data on a leash. Of course, dog names reveal more information about the owners than the proper dogs. What we find may or may not be what we were looking for.

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What you missed from our FOIA Slack Chat with Jeff Kelly Lowenstein

What you missed from our FOIA Slack Chat with Jeff Kelly Lowenstein

by Cynthia Fernandez
September 12, 2018

Last week on Slack, we chatted with Jeff Kelly Lowenstein, one of the reporters whose work led to the release of over 11 million records related to lottery winners. Here’s what he had to share on managing national projects, and making the leap to to global reporting.

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What you missed from our FOIA Slack Chat with Kel McClanahan

What you missed from our FOIA Slack Chat with Kel McClanahan

by Cynthia Fernandez
September 05, 2018

Last week, Kel McClanahan, the executive director of National Security Counselors, a public interest law firm who often represents intelligence employees, whistle-blowers, and reporters (including MuckRock), joined us on our Slack chat. What followed may not be legal advice, but it sure was interesting.

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What you missed from our FOIA Slack Chat with Jessie Gomez

What you missed from our FOIA Slack Chat with Jessie Gomez

by Cynthia Fernandez
August 29, 2018

Last Friday, MuckRock’s Sam Whitmore Media Survey Fellow Jessie Gomez joined us for our weekly Friday FOIA Chat on MuckRock’s Slack Channel. Gomez is currently working on building FOIA resources for researchers and journalists, and one of the problems she is looking to tackle is the complicated, varying, and often baseless FOIA fees. Here’s some strategies that came out of the conversation.

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What you missed from our FOIA Slack Chat with Jessica Huseman

What you missed from our FOIA Slack Chat with Jessica Huseman

by Cynthia Fernandez
August 22, 2018

Jessica Huseman of ProPublica joined us last Friday for our Friday FOIA chat on MuckRock’s Slack channel. Here’s a few tips she’s gleaned from massive investigations built off of public records requests filed all over the country.

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What you missed from our FOIA Slack Chat with Kendall Taggart

What you missed from our FOIA Slack Chat with Kendall Taggart

by Cynthia Fernandez
August 15, 2018

Investigative data reporter for Buzzfeed Kendall Taggart joined us for MuckRock’s Friday FOIA Chat last Friday on Slack to talk about where to find data - and more importantly, what to do with it.

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Latest Requests See all

Title Status Agency Jurisdiction
Boston Universirty's Federal Financial Aid Statistics No Responsive Documents Department of Education Massachusetts
FDA: Pramiracetam (aka Pramistar) Fix Required Food and Drug Administration United States of America
FDA: Oxiracetam Fix Required Food and Drug Administration United States of America
FDA: Piracetam (aka Nootropil, Breinox, Dinagen, Lucetam, Nootropyl, Oikamid) Awaiting Response Food and Drug Administration United States of America
FDA: Coluracetam Fix Required Food and Drug Administration United States of America

Recently Completed Requests See all

Title Status Agency Jurisdiction
Police Women undergo Cavity Searches (New Hampshire State Police) Completed New Hampshire State Police New Hampshire
Reports on the impact of minimum wage increases Completed Government Accountability Office United States of America
Boise, ID Pet Licensing Completed City of Boise (ID) Boise, ID
Houston, TX Pet Licensing Data Completed Houston Bureau of Animal Regulation and Care (BARC) Houston, TX
Police Women undergo Cavity Searches (Los Angeles Police Department) Completed Los Angeles Police Department Los Angeles, CA

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