After today’s Supreme Court decision affirming states’ rights to prohibit out of state requester, MuckRock is looking for partners to help ensure transparency and open access are available to everyone throughout America. In exchange, we’re offering up to two users in each of the impacted states pro accounts — and the satisfaction of knowing they are making an important contribution to sunshine across America.

While the FBI had followed the Earth Liberation Front (ELF)’s actions for years, it was apparently the environmental group’s opposition to the Iraq war that really piqued the Bureau’s interest.

Timothy McVeigh’s federal 1,800-page Bureau of Prisons file, released to user Jason Smathers after a two-year wait, reveals how far journalists would go to put the Oklahoma City bomber in front of an audience.

What drives a terrorist bomber? Files requested by MuckRock user Jason Smathers shed light on the psyche of another bomber: Timothy McVeigh, convicted for the Oklahoma City Bombing which killed 168 people and injured more than 800.

Three months after Beyoncé’s lip synced performance at Obama’s inauguration, the Marine Corps has responded to a FOIA request by Michael Morisy for the singer’s backup tracks. The U.S. Marine Band sent two CDs from the performance — but not the singer’s own vocals.

Today MuckRock chronicles the saga of a request for Beyoncé’s Inauguration backing track, as well as copies of other backing tracks created for Inauguration events. Unfortunately, two outside legal experts and the U.S. Marines Corps have warned us strongly against publishing the documents we got got back. The reason? Copyright.

The two space fragments, “known locally as a ‘space ball’” according to one State Department cable, were discovered by two farming brothers about two weeks apart. They elicited excited correspondence between State Department and American embassy officials on the Ivory Coast, according to documents obtained by MuckRock.

The Somerville Police Department is withholding a leger of the firearms used by their officers after initially denying the existence of inventory lists.

Despite raised eyebrows from viewers disgruntled by Seth MacFarlane’s risqué February Oscars show, only four filed written complaints with the Federal Communications Commission.

In a collaboration with the Boston Globe, MuckRock requested documents detailing the use of automated license plate recognition (ALPR) scanners from more than 50 police agencies in Massachusetts. Fewer than a third of departments have formal, written standards to govern use of ALPR and plate scan data. Those that do have policies vary widely on details.