A Freedom of Information Act request from the Oversight Project may potentially open a new avenue for mass deportations, according to one lawyer involved.

The Virginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), located ß 2.2-3700 et ... A public record is any writing or recording – regardless of whether it is a paper record, an electronic file, an audio or ...

"If I was in another country now that was fighting for the FOIA that we passed in 1966, I would say no. You use that as a jumping off point. With IT systems and moving from pencil and paper to ...

A feud over the Delta County Airport, its management and the county continued Thursday, when two former airport managers attended the Delta County Board of Commissioners meeting — both seeking to ...

Laura Manley is the executive director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University. For much of U.S. history, the federal government was the ultimate ...

Unlike some state public records laws, the federal Freedom of Information Act does not define whether personal email messages are public records. Whether a record is subject to disclosure under FOIA ...

The Michigan Senate crossed the first item off its 2025 to-do list on Wednesday, passing a plan to expand Michigan’s Freedom ...

or will destroy documents subject to Paxton’s FOIA request,” Kacsmaryk wrote in the order. Kacsmaryk also maligned Paxton for highlighting the presence of a paper shredding service at the DOJ.

The Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, is a records policy that entitles watchdogs, media and the general public to documents from public entities. Lawmakers have tried for years to expand the law, ...