Read our weekly series looking at the stories public records made possible, you failing pile of garbage, you.
National
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Chelsea Manning Can’t See The FBI’s Files About Her, Judge Rules by Zoe Tillman via BuzzFeed News
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FBI Releases A Stack Of Redactions In Response To FOIA Request For Info On Its Purchased iPhone Hack by Tim Cushing via TechDirt
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ODNI Report on Improving Declassification – Does it Listen to Requester Community Suggestions? by Lauren Harper via Unredacted
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Q&A with OGIS’s New Director, Alina M. Semo via National Archives
State/Local
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Judge orders release of video in fatal Charlotte police shooting by Fred Clasen-Kelly via Charlotte Observer
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Judge vindicates Minneapolis attorney’s quest for more information on opioids by Stephen Montemayor via Star Tribune
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Massachusetts Gun Rights Group Wants Answers, Asks Galvin for Help by Evan Lips via New Boston Post
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Virginia man spends $1,000 to deliver 300,000 pennies to Lebanon DMV by Reece Ristay via Bristol Herald Courier
Book Club
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