Biden’s legacy: Leaving FOIA in shambles
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Let’s shore up funding for local news
The Community News and Small Business Support Act would use tax credits to improve local news’s financial outlook
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Honoring Daniel Ellsberg’s legacy: A $1 million donation to tackle government secrecy
Jack Dorsey’s #startsmall backs efforts to reform the government secrecy system, while honoring the late Daniel Ellsberg
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Secret science laws limit access to research records
Denying the press and public access to records isn’t the right way to protect academic freedom
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Sunlight on social media: Government officials’ posts should be public records
A new decision from Pennsylvania unnecessarily complicates the public’s right to know about government business conducted on social media
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In honor of a whistleblowing legend: Announcing the Daniel Ellsberg Chair on Government Secrecy
We will honor our friend by fighting for what he fought for his entire life: an end to excessive government secrecy.
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Congress: Don’t let jet owners cover their tracks on the taxpayer dime
Protect press and public access to private jet flight data
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Government is at its most innovative when ducking transparency
Agencies are increasingly emboldened to preempt records requests with closure rules
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It’s time for open records laws to promote transparency
Agencies misuse exemptions to cause delay and expense.
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Senate FOIA hearing brings hard questions for government witnesses
Lawmakers called for modernization and an answer to a “basic question about how FOIA is operating in the context of new technology.”
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Victory on the horizon in the “Free PACER” fight
The fight to free PACER, the federally managed database of public court records that has sat behind a paywall since its inception, has stretched on for more than a decade now. These efforts may finally pay off in 2022 with a bill poised for the Senate floor that achieves many of the aims of the "free PACER" movement.
