In furthering this policy, FOIA requires that the law be interpreted liberally, in favor of access, and that any exemption allowing public records to be withheld must be interpreted narrowly. Submit a ...

At the start of another legislative session, lawmakers in the Michigan Senate hope the House will take up transparency bills that faltered last year.

Lawmakers in Arkansas are now working on a bill to provide more government transparency when it comes to redistricting.

FOIA Buddy is a business in which people purchase credits online to submit Freedom of Information Act requests. The organization’s website states that each credit can be used for one request and ...

Axios Visuals President Donald Trump got more Detroit votes in November's election than any Republican candidate since 2000, per data obtained by Axios. Kamala Harris, meanwhile, garnered fewer votes ...

In fact, we encourage everyone to take the online FOIA training offered by the Attorney General ... we will close with yet another time-wasting FOIA request we see public bodies getting on a regular ...

The UK government answered 57 percent of FOIA requests back in 2010, but by 2023, they had circled the wagons and begun closing the iron curtain—answering only 34 percent of requests. When answers are ...

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