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  • 1 month ago | orlandoweekly.com | Dillon Bergin |Kelly Kauffman |Beryl Lipton

    click to enlarge illustration by Hannah Diaz for Electronic Frontier Foundation You'll wait a long time for some government agencies to fulfill legally mandated records requests. The public’s right to access government information is constantly under siege across the United States, from both sides of the political aisle.

  • 1 month ago | muckrock.com | Michael Morisy |Samantha Sunne |Dillon Bergin |Kelly Kauffman

    The Data Liberation Project is an initiative to identify, obtain, reformat, clean, document, publish, and disseminate government datasets of public interest. Wondering how you can contribute? Join the MuckRock Slack and find your way to the #public-data-liberation-project channel to get involved. ★ Featured 1 request 2 articles 2 Articles Public data is disappearing—but anyone can help preserve it.

  • Mar 16, 2025 | muckrock.com | Aaron Mackey |Michael Morisy |Kelly Kauffman

    The public’s right to access government information is constantly under siege across the United States, from both sides of the political aisle.

  • Dec 17, 2024 | muckrock.com | Kelly Kauffman

    Hannah Beckler, senior editor of investigations for Business Insider, was accustomed to getting questions from colleagues about how to get information about government agencies. Her go-to response was “FOIA and find out.” She said it so much that in 2022 her husband gave her a custom-made sweatshirt with the phrase for Christmas. “I wore it in the newsroom and a colleague took a picture and to Twitter, and it unexpectedly resonated,” Beckler said.

  • Nov 5, 2024 | muckrock.com | Kelly Kauffman |Dillon Bergin

    While the public casts their votes for the next president, federal agencies have been busy at work preparing for the transition. And in the process, they’re creating a lot of documents that you can request. One of the most important pieces of the presidential transition process is a program run by the General Services Administration (GSA).

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