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November 2nd, 2017 • Featured
Leveraging the predictive power of FOIA data

In 2010, when we started MuckRock, a non-profit website that helps newsrooms and journalists around the country file and track public records requests, one of our big bets was that if you filed a lot of FOIA requests, you’d get better at it.

February 23rd, 2017 • Quill Archives
Let’s Teach Old Public Records Laws New Tricks

There’s good reason for existential angst about transparency in the Trump administration. Breaking with precedent, President Donald Trump declined to release his tax returns as a candidate. He ditched his press pool. And while Freedom of Information Act requests from other people provided him endless speech and tweet fodder during his fight for the presidency, he has shown no eagerness to return the favor and strengthen the law.

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