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A blank copy of Saginaw County's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request form. Though many public bodies have specific forms for citizens to use to request records, Michigan law merely requires a ...

“The Chamber noted that the White House itself has deemed the march-in proposal a matter of urgent importance and that ‘it would be inconsistent for the executive branch to conclude now that the ...

A lawsuit was initiated by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) against the U.S. DOGE Service and other entities. Court records state that CREW filed a FOIA requests to gather ...

Welcome to a special edition of FOIA Files! Today, I published a wild story sparked by an email I received from a federal agency. It alerted me that a few days’ worth of Freedom of Information Act ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Documents requested from Richmond’s government under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) could become a lot more accessible to the public at large, should a newly-introduced ...

PAXTON, Ill. (WCIA) — Two identical open-record requests into a teacher/coach accused of sexual misconduct yielded two very different responses from the Paxton-Buckley-Loda school district over a ...

(Reuters) - Freedom of Information Act requests are rarely speedy, but when a group of scientists asked the federal government to share the data it relied upon in licensing Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, ...

BuzzFeed News and journalist Jason Leopold brought a lawsuit against the FBI on Friday for inadequately responding to a Freedom of Information Act request on Andrew Breitbart, the Wrap reported. Filed ...

The recent “Our View” (Rochester School District Data Practices request from Equality in Education) appeared to be hastily written. The editorial focuses too much on the Federal Freedom of Information ...

Harvey paid $3,750 to settle a lawsuit alleging the city violated the Freedom of Information Act by denying a Harvey man’s request for body-worn camera footage related to his arrest, according to the ...