Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders And The Lies She Spread About People 'Weaponizing FOIA'
Hiding travel records by changing the state's decades-old open records law
Freedom Of Information Act
US Government Sued For Hiding Information On Afghan Refugees In Detention Camps
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The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and Muslim Advocates sued multiple United States government agencies that have refused to produce key information on thousands of Afghan refugees still living in limbo at secretive
Secret Police: One Department In Virginia Is Trying To Hide The Names Of Most Officers
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A police department in Virginia has twisted the state’s freedom of information law to try and block the names of officers from being shared with OpenOversightVA, a group of volunteer researchers who maintain
A Presumption Of Secrecy: Defying Sunshine In Government
In 2017, Bloomberg reporter Jason Leopold submitted a Freedom of Information request for “photographed copies of all artwork created by Guantanamo detainees.”
Leopold waited about five years before United States Southern Command, or SOUTHCOM, fulfilled the request. The joint command removed portions of hundreds of paintings, invoking an exemption for
Justice Department Fights Lawsuit Over Secret JFK Files
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The United States Justice Department (DOJ) will fight a lawsuit intended to force President Joe Biden and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to release records
Swedish Prosecutors Destroyed Assange Documents
Swedish prosecutors destroyed copies of email correspondence related to the extradition case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, according to Italian journalist Stefania Maurizi.
The documents were destroyed while Maurizi was litigating her freedom of information request, making it "highly suspicious."
Maurizi uncovered this major revelation during a hearing in her
EPA's Own Survey Shows Employees Fear Retaliation, Pressure To Alter Science
EPA Administrator Michael Regan (Screen shot from Office of Senator Patrick
Leahy [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiPAaECqHbw])
A majority of Environmental Protection Agency scientists surveyed by the agency
in May indicated they are unable to “do their work knowing they are protected
from intimidation or coercion to alter