In FY 2024, over 200,000 Freedom of Information Act requests were backlogged, according to the Government Accountability ...

Does a viral video show a "leak" from a FOIA release that proves Hillary Clinton sent an email requesting documents about the ...

The Jeffrey Epstein controversy continues to dominate headlines, but President Donald Trump is hoping it will go away. Trump ...

A former U.S. Marine and NYPD officer who violently assaulted a cop at the Capitol on Jan. 6 has been denied a Freedom of ...

The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is a powerful statute. Enacted in 1966, it established a mechanism for members of the public to request agency records from federal information and documents, ...

WASHINGTON DC (07/31/2025) – The Institute for Energy Research (IER) has filed three Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) ...

More importantly, anyone can make a FOIA request. Open records are an essential part of our democracy and the Freedom of Information act insures all of us have access to them.

Last year’s all-out assault by the General Assembly on the state’s Freedom of Information Act, the law that shines sunlight on state and local government activities, has escalated into this ...

In other words, if more than 50 percent of FOIA requesters are harassing university professors, then maybe there would be a need for this bill. But we don’t know that.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Illinois' Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, is a powerful tool of transparency and accountability. It allows anyone to request access to government records. The information can ...

The Freedom of Information Act exists for a reason — we all have a right to request official records. USA TODAY OPINION: Russia shut down free press during Ukraine invasion.

LANSING — A Michigan House committee advanced legislation Wednesday to expand the state's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to cover the governor's office and state Legislature, raising the ...