Freedom Of Information: US Government Secrecy As Bad As It Was Under Trump
When it comes to the Freedom of Information Act, government secrecy under President Biden is just as bad or slightly worse than it was under President Trump.
Freedom Of Information Act
What They Were Hiding: Increased Solitary Confinement In Immigrant Detention Facilities
Tracking what U.S. government agencies do not want the public to know when they try to thwart Freedom of Information Act requests for records
Fighting To Uncover Secrets Of the Cold War Surveillance State
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
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