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Some good, some bad in AP Sunshine overview
Image via CrunchBase The full story is here. More openness in government. Lawmakers across the country, including the Republicans who took control in many states this year, say they want it. But a...
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AP Gets Walker E-Mails, Will Pay Legal Costs
Image via Wikipedia Nice work, Christa! The office of Gov. Scott Walker has agreed to a settlement in a lawsuit brought by Isthmus newspaper and the Wisconsin Associated Press over access to emails...
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AP: Colorado Government-Funded Cellphone Bill Hard to Figure…
Image via CrunchBase A nice piece of FOI-driven work from the Associated Press, even if they couldn’t quite put a precise price tag on it… Colorado officials insist they’re combing through state...
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More on the Osama Bin Laden pics…
Image via Wikipedia The AP has joined the fray: The US government may be forced to release photographs of Osama bin Laden‘s body after the Associated Press news agency lodged a request under the...
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Add One More to the Osama FOI Derby…
Image via Wikipedia Two updates on the Osama Bin Laden FOIA requests, courtesy of The Atlantic Wire, which is covering the heck out of the issue, by the way…NPR is filing…and here is the AP’s stance...
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AP: We Sent FOI Requests to 100 Countries, and All We Got Were These Lousy...
The Mother of All FOI Audits is in, and the results are predictably grim. Seems wherever FOI laws are passed, age-old stonewalling tactics quickly set in and mire the process. A couple of nice nuggets...
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AP Report: Obama Administration Drowning in FOI Requests
The Obama administration couldn’t keep pace with the increasing number of people asking for copies ofgovernment documents, emails, photographs and more under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act,...
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In aftermath of Aurora mass shootings, secrecy reigns…
AURORA, CO – JULY 20: Investigators are on the scene at the Century 16 movie theatre where a gunmen attacked movie goers during an early morning screening of the new Batman movie, ‘The Dark Knight...
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FOI at Work: As detention of immigrants grows, so do private prison profits…
A fabulous piece of FOI-driven reporting from the Associated Press: The Associated Press, seeking to tally the scope of the private facilities, add up their cost and the amounts the companies spend on...
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Bin Laden Burial at Sea Docs Released Thanks to FOIA
Internal emails among U.S. military officers indicate that no sailors watched Osama bin Laden’s burial at sea from the USS Carl Vinson and traditional Islamic procedures were followed during the...
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