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The state Supreme Court has ended a legal challenge to a secret process used by local judges to appoint Genesee County ...

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

The State Department is testing out the use of artificial intelligence for declassifying decades-old cables and helping members of the public pinpoint what they want in public records or through the ...

The Republican chairman of the powerful House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will get his first crack this week at publicly grilling Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials about ...

In an era where transparency and accountability are paramount, the Freedom of Information Act stands as a critical tool for citizens seeking access to government records. However, behind the ideal of ...

While this language was not included in the “awareness process” dated May 24, internal emails reviewed by CNN suggest that certain political appointees were copied on documents produced in response to ...

A view of the IRS building in Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images) A few years ago, the Internal Revenue Service announced that it had begun using the identity credential service ID.me ...

A new change to the Air Force's Freedom of Information Act submission portal, asking whether individuals seeking public information from the service would agree to accept only "clearly releasable" ...

I'm walking you through how I filed a FOIA request to see if Donald Trump truly declassified the documents involved in the Mar-a-Lago search. As a human rights lawyer, I wanted to find out if these ...

Two recent studies looked at the process of submitting public records and FOIA requests, including how news deserts correlate to poor compliance.