Boasting wide, bipartisan support from Michiganders, transparency in government runs on the behind-the-scenes, often ...

Discover what the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is and how it works. Also, learn who can use it, and why it matters ...

A number of federal agencies, including the Secret Service and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, are still working to become interoperable with FOIA.gov — a hiccup in the slow-going effort to ...

In November 2024, Elon Musk posted on social media, "There should be no need for [Freedom of Information Act] requests. All government data should be default public for maximum transparency." His ...

A search tool was added Wednesday to the federal government’s website for Freedom of Information Act requests, a move intended to ease public efforts in finding commonly requested information. The ...

Immigration attorneys must rely almost exclusively on FOIA requests to obtain a noncitizen’s Alien Registration File.

To another FOIA request about President Biden’s plan to spend billions to hire 87,000 new agents, the IRS initially claimed that there were no records at all. The agency in charge of collecting taxes ...

A new tranche of just-released Freedom of Information Act requests from news organizations shows how reporters are using the act as an investigative tool to reconstruct internal decision making, trace ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The State Department is testing out the use of artificial intelligence for declassifying decades-old cables and helping members of the ...

Gov. Sarah Sanders announces a special session to consider tax cuts and a rollback of public access to government information. Credit: Brian Chilson Arkansas government could be more efficient with a ...