Did ICE quietly rescind illegal guidance curtailing congressional visits?
FPF FOIA request seeks more information
Tips for requesting body-worn camera footage from the L.A. protests
Plus: Don’t miss FPF’s upcoming virtual FOIA event
FPF FOIA project targets press abuses
Plus: Gabbard wants the intelligence community to embrace AI. Will that be good for declassification?
FPF takes State Department to court over Öztürk secrecy
Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeks documents on targeting of journalist
Snowden surveillance disclosures should be revisited as DOGE builds its “master database”
Plus: Justice Department lets former White House officials accused of stealing presidential records keep them.
Snowden surveillance revelations take on added urgency 12 years later
The anniversary is a reminder to resist the characterization of whistleblowers as threats to national security for revealing information the government wants to keep secret.
FOIA reporting makes headlines. Wired and 404 Media make the articles free.
Plus: The Food and Drug Administration is still hiding deadly E. coli outbreak information
Trump administration abuses secrecy rules to manipulate news narrative
Podcast appearance highlights National Archives crisis and how Trump’s efforts to rewrite history will make it harder for policymakers to be effective
Do you trust Marco Rubio to administer the Electoral College?
Plus: Major hack of FOIA software reveals problems of government’s overreliance on private companies
Politicizing declassification has dire consequences
It will corrupt historical accounts of this administration — and is a recipe for disaster.
