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We're collecting death records from county coroners and medical examiners around the country to analyze the impact of coronavirus.

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looking at curfew violations from May 30, 2020 to date in cities around America https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2020/6/14/21286741/chicago-city-curfew-african-american-arrest-aclu

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Webinar: How COVID-19 statewide orders are shaping public health

by Michael Morisy

July 13, 2020

Do mask mandates matter? Were governments that shut down schools sooner making the right call? Julia Raifman, assistant professor at Boston University’s School of Public Health, has been organizing the COVID-19 US state policy database (CUSP) to collect and analyze state-wide mandates from across the country to help answer these questions and inform future policy. This Thursday, she shares what she’s learned in a question and answer session with Garance Burke.

Release Notes: Testing a more flexible crowdsourcing system to tackle COVID-19 questions

by Michael Morisy

June 30, 2020

We’ve loved seeing the creative ways users have used our Assignments crowdsourcing tools, from digging through documents to building petitions. Now, to help newsrooms quickly gather answers to big questions, we’ve created an experimental spinoff of Assignments designed to help organize volunteers in gathering and label large amounts of data no matter where it may live.

FOIA Roundup: Avenues to accountability in the age of COVID-19

by Beryl Lipton

June 23, 2020

We’re offering a free training session and plenty of ways to demand transparency in the midst of a pandemic and the movement for police accountability.

Join us for a free COVID-19 public records workshop this Friday

by Michael Morisy

June 22, 2020

This Friday, we’re hosting the first of a number of ongoing free trainings focused on uncovering how COVID-19 is impacting communities around the United States. Come join us, and subscribe to the project newsletter to get first look at key data sets, free training, and more.

We’re resuming monthly FOIA request follow-ups

by Kiera Murray

May 21, 2020

In March, as government agencies closed or reconfigured operations at all levels, we paused our automated follow-up systems. Now that agencies are getting back to work at the new normal, we’re resuming our automated follow-up systems to ensure requests get a timely acknowledgment and response.