The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1966, and the intention of the law is to make the federal government’s functioning a bit more transparent to ...

Discover how to easily request EEOC records on employer discrimination through the FOIA. Simplify the process and access ...

FOIA imposes two requirements on requests for agency records. Requests must: Reasonably describe the desired records. Be made in compliance with agency rules and regulations for making FOIA requests. ...

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 ...

The Justice Department is creating a wizard to help Americans making requests under the Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA. The project is meant to help people locate any information that is already ...

When her daughter started kindergarten, Miriam Bhimani was eager to get more context about how decisions were being made at the Chicago elementary school. So she started writing requests to the ...

The White House Office of Management and Budget is asking agencies to get their National FOIA Portal interoperability plans in order. The FOIA Improvement Act of 2016 required that OMB and the ...

As AI-fueled requests rise under Michigan's Freedom of Information Act, clerks in Ann Arbor and Milan juggle deadlines, fees ...