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Reclaim The Records: Using Freedom of Information laws to open up genealogical and archival data
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For the Record: The battle to preserve the online archives of now-shuttered newsrooms
Major news organizations have announced the shutdown of prominent websites, including the DCist, Vice and The Messenger with many left wondering who will archive the journalism of hundreds of reporters.
Come comb through the next batch of the Brett Kavanaugh Files
MuckRock users are continuing to sift through a selection of materials released on the Supreme Court nominee. Here’s some of what we’ve found so far.
The Brett Kavanaugh files: Help explore documents around the most recent Supreme Court Nomination
Help read through thousands of pages covering Brett Kavanaugh’s time working under special counsel Ken Starr, in the White House Counsel’s Office under President George W. Bush, and more, summarizing and highlight the documents you think are most interesting.
Getting records from a presidential library can take longer than their term in office
The National Archives and Records Administration’s recent announcement that there will be no Barack Obama Presidential Library was met with understandable outrage from historians and transparency advocates, who saw it as a blow to a functioning democracy. However, as the National Security Archive’s Nate Jones was quick to point out, this discussion needs to be understood in the larger context of NARA’s current failings in the presidential library system, where FOIA requests can take years, even decades.
Justice Department records confirm PROMIS scandal’s ties to Israel
Justice Department documents recently released by the National Archives confirm what some Inslaw witnesses have been saying for decades: that a copy of PROMIS software was given to Israel.
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Reclaim The Records sent this request to the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene of New York City, NY
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Inventory listing of all microfilm and microfiche holdings of the New York City Municipal Archives
Reclaim The Records sent this request to the Department of Records and Information Services of New York City, NY
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Inventory of all old NYC records to be discarded or destroyed
Reclaim The Records sent this request to the Department of Records and Information Services of New York City, NY
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Request to the NYC Municipal Archives for the Kings county (Brooklyn) "Old Town" microfilms
Reclaim The Records sent this request to the Department of Records and Information Services of New York City, NY