Responding to FOIA/Open Records requests can be time-consuming and resource-intensive. This is especially true of modern sources like websites, social media accounts, messaging apps, and mobile ...

A federal court in New York City ruled in February that some metadata is presumed releasable under the federal Freedom of Information Act, the first time a court has ruled that the federal government ...

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 ...

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 ...