Read our weekly series looking at the stories public records made possible before that giant meteor NASA warned us about shows up.
National
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CDC keeps secret its mishaps with deadly germs by Alison Young via USA Today
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DoD Document Claims Implausible Suicide Pact in Deaths of Gitmo Detainees by Jeffrey Valtin
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DOJ Updates FOIA Regulations by Lauren Harper via Unredacted
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Judge mulls request to preserve Homeland Security officials’ emails by Josh Gerstein via Politico
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Transition to Trump: What Obama’s Freedom of Information legacy means for press by Alexandra Ellerbeck via Committee to Protect Journalists
State/Local
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Chris Christie’s public records battles cost New Jersey $900K, report says by Matt Arco via NJ.com
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Chicago Spent Hundreds Of Thousands To Fight FOIA Requests In 2016 by Aaroncynic via Chicagoist
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Columbus police illegally withheld public records, Ohio Supreme Court rules by Randy Ludlow via Columbus Dispatch
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How to expose bad government in Massachusetts in 2017 by Andrew Quemere via DigBoston
Book Club
From Friend of MuckRock, Mike Best:
A possibility occurred to me: choosing a book every month or so for people to draw FOIA requests from, targeting the subjects, events and tech in the books. For example: Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA’s Spytechs, from Communism to Al-Qaeda
Interested? Give it a read, and for the first Friday in February we’ll chat about it on Twitter with the hashtag #OpenBook.
Want to see a story in the round-up? Email us at info@muckrock.com
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