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This week’s FOIA Roundup: More watchdogs on face stealing and Ukraine, a showdown in Chicago and local updates

by Beryl Lipton

January 24, 2020

The weekly roundup of what is or should be public record. Something we missed? Let us know!

This week’s FOIA roundup: Ukraine redactions and new officials, bills and squabbles in the states

by Beryl Lipton

January 10, 2020

The weekly roundup of the latest in FOI. See something we missed? Let us know!

I paid $125 for this photo of Angela Merkel

by JPat Brown

September 18, 2019

After five years of trying to get records out of the Harvard University Police Department, I ended up spending $125 on a high-resolution photo German Chancellor Angela Merkel. This is the story of how and why.

How do abortion opponents use public records?

by Shafaq Patel (@shafaqpatel)

August 07, 2019

Freedom of Information is for everyone, but sometimes brushes up against the rights to privacy and safety. We’ve started a project to learn more.

Wyoming environmental agency overcharges first request following adoption of new fee policies

by Jessie Gomez

April 11, 2019

Wyoming’s new records fee policies were recently put to the test when the state’s Department of Environmental Quality were found to have charged over $400 for a request that fell well under the state’s new threshold for charging of electronic records.