Almost two months into the Trans Journalists Association and MuckRock’s partnership to document the impact of anti-trans federal action, we’ve filed 191 requests — more than doubling last month.

Public data is disappearing—but anyone can help preserve it. Groups like the Data Rescue Project and the Data Liberation Project are racing to preserve public interest datasets and they need all kinds of support.

Some of the Pultizers winners and finalists used DocumentCloud to host primary documents that were foundational to their reporting.

MuckRock hosted an online discussion digging into how DOGE is hiding its work and what you can do to strengthen truly public oversight over Elon Musk’s effort to reshape government.

Some federal agencies report using AI to process FOIA requests. We asked for documentation, but they say none exists.

Join us as we explore the MuckRock API, which enables you to query, file requests, interact with public records and much more.

MuckRock will be hosting an online discussion digging into how DOGE is hiding its work and what you can do to strengthen truly public oversight over Elon Musk’s effort to reshape government.

Recently, MuckRock received transition documents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

The Trans Journalists Association and MuckRock have partnered to help journalists document and report on the Trump administration’s actions targeting trans communities.

This MuckRock guide will explore how to use public databases to your advantage when filing environmental FOIA requests.

The Philly Transit Riders Union used DocumentCloud’s annotation feature to highlight public documents with their members and share them with local reporters and the public.

MuckRock is requesting documents to get the inside story of the removal of federal government data.

Find out what records you can obtain from law enforcement.

Requesting emails can be extremely insightful, but also a bit of an exemptions minefield.

See how Fiquem Sabendo, a Brazilian transparency nonprofit, used DocumentCloud to reveal how a former president used his corporate card to pay for personal expenses.

The latest release of DocumentCloud introduces OCR injection, ensuring that OCR’d text from Textract or any Add-Ons is grafted into the underlying PDF.

Phil Eil shares a collection of FOIA-fueled nonfiction books.

To celebrate Sunshine Week and one year of FOIAFridays, I want to share five things I’ve learned through a year of conversations.

Here are this year’s “winners.” While they may not all pay up, at least we can make sure they get the negative publicity they’re owed.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation looks back at the games governments played to avoid transparency.

In this conversation, we discuss Kalven’s landmark public records win in Kalven v. City of Chicago (2014), how AI can be used to analyze data received through FOIA and hopes for the future of the transparency landscape.

When you recognize a pattern of where to find information on documents over and over again, DocumentCloud’s Regex Extractor Add-On can help you pull it out and turn it into data. After that, the fun begins.

Reporters at the San Francisco Public Press preserved more than 80 historical documents from the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory.

In these release notes, we’ve consolidated all of our documentation into one central location at help.muckrock.com for easier access. Other key updates include the release of a Python wrapper for the new MuckRock API and an update to the Python wrapper for DocumentCloud.

Since the start of the new Trump administration, hundreds of federal data sets and government websites have gone offline without warning, sometimes returning with major changes and sometimes not returning at all. On February. 13, meet the groups fighting to keep the information online.