freedom of information act
Mysterious 'Difficulties' Prevent Secretive Nuclear Lab From Releasing Records on First Known Interstellar Object to Land on Earth
Los Alamos National Laboratory has been beset with delays in its attempts to locate records that may relate to the suppression of information about the extrasolar visitation.
Department of Energy Heavily Redacts Documents on Homer Simpson Blog
What did Homer know and when did he know it?
Cops Refuse to Say What Kind of Weapons They Are Using Against Protesters
Transparency activists are being stonewalled despite countless videos showing teargas and other weapons deployed against George Floyd protesters.
School That Suspended Kids for Posting COVID Photos Won’t Release Records
Paulding County School District is refusing to release records about the recent decision to suspend students who shared photos of an overcrowded school during the ongoing pandemic.
The U.S. Army Didn’t Even Use Tools it Bought from Hacking Team
A group focused on counterintelligence and insider threats purchased the malware, according to a FOIA response to Motherboard.
Here Are Hundreds of Pages of Official Documents About Predictive Policing in America
Motherboard is publishing several hundred pages of documents we obtained from police departments by using Freedom of Information requests.
Why Seattle Accidentally Sent This Activist the First 256 Characters of 32 Million Internal Emails
How this self-described FOIA-nerd uses city data to make your life better.
Public Lands Agency Ordered Staff to Promote Oil and Gas on Social Media
Staff at the Bureau of Land Management were instructed to share photos of fossil fuel development on the agency’s Flickr page, FOIA documents reveal.
'Nature' Editorial Juxtaposes FOIA Email Release With Illegal Hacking
One of science's most important publications assumes science journalists don't know how to do their jobs.
Here's What J. Edgar Hoover Called 'Fake News'
Government officials have long watched journalists who pissed them off.
How John Lennon's deportation inspired DACA
John Lennon's attorney used the Freedom of Information Act to save him from deportation.
Josh Duggar Sues Magazine That Exposed His Molestation Case
The disgraced "19 Kids and Counting" star says the investigation into his sexual misconduct violated his privacy and caused him emotional injury.