A federal appeals court has been asked to overturn a Miami district court judge and order a Freedom of Information Act trial to determine whether the FBI made a proper search for records about its secretive 9/11 Review Commission. “This case presents a case of enormous public interest: How much information concerning its investigation of […]
Governments Turn Tables by Suing Public Records Requesters…
An Oregon parent wanted details about school employees getting paid to stay home. A retired educator sought data about student performance in Louisiana. And college journalists in Kentucky requested documents about the investigations of employees accused of sexual misconduct. Instead, they got something else: sued by the agencies they had asked for public records…
House Goes to Court to Protect Secrecy of Records…
The House of Representatives is taking legal action to make sure that federal agencies don’t release congressional records to the public through the Freedom of Information Act. The move, which came Friday evening in a lawsuit demanding access to discussions about health care reform between the Trump administration and Congress, threatens to cut off a […]
FBI Fights Public Release of Trump Dossier Info…
FBI Censored Documents to Protect Privacy of Accused 9/11 Mastermind, Accomplice…
Even as the FBI recently has made public more 9/11 records to satisfy the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act in advance of a possible trial, it continues to withhold untold documents that promise to cast new light on that terrible day in 2001. Likewise, about 1,000 pages from the secretive 9/11 Review Commission […]
Judge Refuses to Disclose State Records on Clinton’s Private Email Server…
A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that a conservative group cannot get State Department records about Hillary Clinton’s use of a private server during her tenure as Secretary of State because those documents don’t show evidence of government “malfeasance.” “The Court….concludes that Judicial Watch has not provided a sufficient basis to believe that the information […]
Privacy Group Notches Win over FBI in FOIA Fight…
A privacy protection group scored a pair of legal wins Tuesday in a court battle with the FBI over access to studies the law enforcement agency has done of how its own record-keeping systems could impact personal privacy. The Electronic Privacy Information Center sued the law enforcement agency under the Freedom of Information Act in […]
REPORT: EPA Employees Not ‘Intentionally’ Breaking Law By Deleting Official Texts…
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials only archived 86 text messages out of 3.1 million agency employees sent and received in 2015, according to a federal watchdog’s report made public Wednesday by House Committee on Science, Space and Technology Chairman Lamar Smith…
The Godfather Admits Using Personal Email for Public Business…Thousands Released…
Under pressure from a pair of open records lawsuits, Mayor Rahm Emanuel acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that he has used personal email accounts to conduct public business, a practice that allowed him to hide some of his government correspondence from the public since he took office…
Podesta Emails: Cheryl Mills ‘We need to clean this up–he has emails from her’…
“We need to clean this up – he has emails from her – they do not say state.gov”…That, ladies and gentlemen, is proof that the president not only lied, but did so with the clear intention of protecting the Clinton campaign…