The New York State Gaming Commission is required by state law to keep a list of people it bans from its casinos publically available on its website. A Freedom of Information request submitted through MuckRock by T. McElwee led to a response from the commission that said it had taken no action to exclude anyone from state gaming facilities.

For this week’s FOIA round-up, a new report shows over 40,000 immigration hearings have been cancelled due to the government shutdown, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service pushed to have activists providing migrants with water prosecuted on environmental grounds, and recently released photos reveal that the New York Police Department might be in violation of its guidelines on protest surveillance.

As part of an ongoing series on MuckRock staff’s infatuation with figures from the Federal Bureau of Investigation file project, Caitlin Russell lists five reasons why Bureau surveillance records shows there’s room for just one Marx in her life. Well, two.