Freedom of Information Act
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Here are some contributions from FOIA advocates that were posted for distribution before or during Sunshine Week 2024. But every week is Sunshine Week if someone asks to see government records. Two pieces by David Cuillier, Ph.D. (he/him), director of...
by dadadata
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on Sun Mar 24, 2024 at 06:04 AM PDT
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Each March news outlets do their best to stir up interest in government transparency. Usually the focus is on federal FOIA, but locally some newspapers and outlets look at state laws. Some state laws, like Maryland’s, are pretty good and include a...
by dadadata
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on Wed Mar 20, 2024 at 07:21 AM PDT
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Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders has some ‘splaining to do. New public records have been released concerning “Podiumgate,” and they raise new questions about the timeline surrounding the Arkansas governor’s office spending nearly $20,000 of taxpayer money...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Thu Oct 12, 2023 at 06:00 AM PDT
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Here’s one for the chuckle file: Tom Fitton’s complaining that President Biden’s new dog, a German shepherd called Commander, is terrorizing the Secret Service. Those Secret Service agents, brave, strong men ready to take a bullet for the president,...
by Alonso del Arte
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on Sat Jul 29, 2023 at 02:35 PM PDT
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— It’s about time. News outlets demand access to Jan. 6 footage McCarthy gave to Tucker Carlson by Jared Gans, The Hill — 02/25/23 [...] Attorney Charles Tobin sent a letter on Thursday on behalf of 10 media organizations to congressional leadership to...
by jamess
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on Sat Feb 25, 2023 at 09:00 PM PST
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DID TRUMP TRY TO PARDON HIMSELF? I have been interested in this question for some time. Even before I was interested in this question, I was interested in a related, earlier question: Would Trump try to pardon himself? In fact, I wrote a diary...
by Tortmaster
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on Sun Oct 30, 2022 at 02:50 AM PDT
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(Reuters) - Pro-Trump operatives are flooding local officials with public-records requests to seek evidence for the former president’s false stolen-election claims and to gather intelligence on voting machines and voters, adding to the chaos rocking...
by MTmofo
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on Wed Aug 03, 2022 at 04:26 PM PDT
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Civil rights advocates last year pressed the federal government for internal documents into Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) pattern of releasing immigrants only when they’re deathly ill. This despicable practice not only absolves federal...
by Gabe Ortiz
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on Mon May 16, 2022 at 08:46 AM PDT
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It appears former President Donald Trump has decided against challenging the latest transmission of his presidential records from the National Archives to the Jan. 6 committee. First reported by Politico on Tuesday, a spokesperson for the Archives...
by Brandi Buchman
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on Wed Mar 09, 2022 at 07:25 AM PST
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THE FOUNDATIONAL QUESTION Why has the Attorney General not filed criminal charges against the former guy? There are many potential charges of obstruction of justice detailed in the Mueller report. There is videotape evidence of the orange traitor...
by Tortmaster
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on Fri Feb 04, 2022 at 03:23 AM PST
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ICE's deplorable practice of releasing sick immigrants only when it's too late is under new scrutiny The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said it’s seeking government records relating to Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) deplorable practice of refusing to free gravely ill immigrants only until they’re near death. Immigrant rights...
by Gabe Ortiz
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on Thu Jul 15, 2021 at 10:59 AM PDT
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In 2020, during the Trump administration, 881 active Secret Service employees were diagnosed with COVID-19. This, according to records obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by watchdog organization Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Tue Jun 22, 2021 at 02:04 PM PDT
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My subject is Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice and our frustrations with its silence and its actions, but I’m worried, y’all. I’m worried that an observation turned into an article, ...
by The Geogre
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on Tue Jun 15, 2021 at 04:15 AM PDT
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United States District Judge Amy Berman Jackson has ordered the DOJ to release a March 2019 OLC memo that former Attorney General William Barr used to justify his decision to clear Trump of obstruction in the Mueller Investigation. The release comes in...
by centerline
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on Tue May 04, 2021 at 01:34 PM PDT
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— — from the Meidas Touch: Trump's Russia Ties: Former The Apprentice Staffer Noel Casler Reveals All • Dec 20, 2020 — 192,474 views Check out our newest collaboration with Noel Casler, who discusses Trump’s ties to Russia from what he saw on the set...
by jamess
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on Wed Dec 23, 2020 at 07:22 PM PST
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Of all people, I expect more from Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, the first Black woman to lead the city and the first LGBTQ person to do so as well. She, however, is being accused of actively trying to cover up the horrific injustice that left...
by Lauren Sue
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on Thu Dec 17, 2020 at 12:38 PM PST
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It took a year and a Freedom of Information Act request, but Anjanette Young has finally gotten video of the night Chicago Police broke down her door, handcuffed her naked, and searched her home. Young told CBS 2 “I feel like they didn’t...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Tue Dec 15, 2020 at 01:11 PM PST
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In an unsurprising piece of news, the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police fought tooth and nail to keep misconduct records secret. Honestly, we need more Jamie Kalvens and dedicated attorneys who will work with them in states and cities of every size....
by dadadata
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on Thu Jun 18, 2020 at 10:31 AM PDT
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Today, Judge Jackson ordered the government to hand over unredacted communications concerning Trump’s hamfisted pressure campaign against Ukraine. And lawyers for American Oversight, the Center for Public Integrity and The New York Times may yet hoist...
by subtropolis
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on Wed May 13, 2020 at 06:09 PM PDT
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There were rumblings that South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster intended to reopen the state. The rumblings were picked up by the national news. The problem is that my Sister and Brother-in-law work in retail grocery. I’m already worried about them....
by Tortmaster
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on Mon Apr 20, 2020 at 09:19 PM PDT
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