Read our weekly series looking at the stories public records made possible before the inevitable gag order comes down.
National
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Able Archer 83: The Secret History of the NATO Exercise That Almost Triggered Nuclear War by Nate Jones
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How federal agencies and Congress pass laws to deny individual FOIA requests by Daniel DeFraia via Sunlight Foundation
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How many people will Trump’s travel ban affect? The US government wants you to pay for that information by David Yanofsky via Quartz
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Majority of States Lack Transparency on Asset Forfeiture by C.J. Ciaramella via Reason.com
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The NSA Has Found a New Way to Categorically Deny FOIA Requests by Brendan O’Connor via Gizmodo
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Senior Trump Aides have Two Weeks to Preserve Emails from RNC Accounts by Lauren Harper via National Security Archive
State/Local
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Auditing Massachusett’s New Transparency Law: Where are the Records Access Officers? by Alex Carlin via Pioneer
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Memo: New York Called For Face Recognition Cameras At Bridges, Tunnels by Kevin Collier via Vocativ
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Minnesota goes after leakers, too by James Shiffer via Star Tribune
Events
Book Club
Interested? Give it a read, and for the first Friday in February we’ll chat about it on Twitter with the hashtag #OpenBook.
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