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Recognizing the year’s worst in government transparency
by
Derek Kravitz,
Beryl Lipton,
Dave Maass,
Michael Morisy,
Aaron Mackey,
Matthew Guariglia,
Betsy Ladyzhets,
Dillon Bergin and
Mukund Rathi
Each year during Sunshine Week (March 13-19), The Foilies serve up tongue-in-cheek “awards” for government agencies and assorted institutions that stand in the way of access to information. The Electronic Frontier Foundation and MuckRock combine forces to collect horror stories about Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and state-level public records requests from journalists and transparency advocates across the United States and beyond. Here are this year’s “winners.”
Have an open records horror story? Shine a light by nominating an agency for The Foilies 2022
We are now accepting submissions for The Foilies 2022, the annual project to give tongue-in-cheek awards to the officials and institutions that behave badly (or ridiculously) when served with a request for public records.