“….[W]e file Freedom of Information Act requests with government agencies, comb through industry reports, crunch numbers, and interview and photograph people out ...

Increasingly, though, federal agencies have been overwhelmed, in part because a wave of automated systems is flooding FOIA offices, funded by right-wing money. Federal FOIA requests have nearly ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) allows anyone to obtain records of federal agencies, even if they are not U.S. citizens. The requests to access these documents are commonly known ...

Visit the newly minted FOIA.gov website, and you’ll see various statistics on FOIA requests and processing times. For 2023, the average processing time for simple requests for all agencies ranged from ...

Did you know that you can request files from OSHA? Under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), employers, employees, and third parties have the right to request documents from OSHA’s inspection files ...

A compromised password can lead to identity theft, a phishing attack can disrupt a major corporation’s operations and a ransomware attack can paralyze an entire industry for days. The importance of ...

In November 2024, Elon Musk posted on social media, "There should be no need for [Freedom of Information Act] requests. All government data should be default public for maximum transparency." His ...

When The New Yorker’s Parker Yesko started trying to get records from federal agencies, it felt “kind of like sending requests through a portal into a void.” And compared to working with local, city ...

Several school district officials said they are being inundated with Right-to-Know requests filed by FOIA Buddy, a business aiming to simplify public use of the Freedom of Information Act. Ever since ...

The number of FOIA requests filed in fiscal year 2024 surpassed 1.5 million, which represented a 25% increase from FY 2023. Congress Artificial Intelligence The adoption of modernized information ...