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With MuckRock’s support, newsrooms investigated candidates around the country. Here’s what they found.

MuckRock and Sunlight Search partnered to help dozens of newsrooms.

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Volunteers thumbed through over a hundred annual reports to find out how agencies are using AI for FOIA. Here’s what they found.

The results are in: According to their own reports, some federal agencies are already testing AI in their FOIA offices. Many more are already using machine learning functions baked into current document search and discovery tools or plan to make use of AI in the future.

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What went wrong this year in transparency? Share your stories!

What went wrong this year in transparency? Share your stories!

Have you run into an egregious records denial? Still aching about an agency thwarting the public’s right to know? Just need to vent about the one (FOIA request) that got away? This is your chance to share and commiserate: Submissions are open for nominations to the 2025 Foilies!

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Tell us where to request police disciplinary files

We’re releasing thousands of pages of police misconduct records in New York. Let’s open up more nationwide

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Five requests about the presidential transition that you can file now

There are still plenty of requests you can file before Inauguration Day.

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