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White House resistance to the Freedom of Information Act goes back to its earliest days. President Lyndon B. Johnson, a ...
West Virginia lawmakers are expanding their rewrite of the state’s Freedom of Information Act, further undermining the law ...
The lawsuit says the DOJ "is in violation of FOIA" and claims irreparable harm has occurred and will continue to occur ...
The number of FOIA requests filed in fiscal year 2024 surpassed 1.5 million, which represented a 25% increase from FY 2023.
When the then-former president was under investigation for unlawfully retaining classified documents, he filed a Freedom of ...
Members of the Senate Government Organization Committee agreed Wednesday to keep lawmakers under the same public records rules as other government entities while also increasing the response time and ...
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took office promising ‘radical transparency.’ His plan to reshape the agency is indeed ...
DOGE claims it’s not an “agency” that has to comply with FOIA. We don’t buy it — and so far judges haven’t, either.
Documents show ICE seeking to expand detention facilities already in use, open new facilities in 10 states across the Midwest ...
According to the body, by upholding the FOI Act, the Supreme Court has empowered citizens, particularly journalists, to ...
FOIA staffers were among those fired by RFK Jr.'s Department of Health and Human Services, reducing public transparency on ...
"FDA FOIA staff, including those working on litigation involving CBER, were impacted as part of HHS' reorganization," Nixon ...