Contradictory responses to a request for autopsy reports illustrate how law enforcement agencies take advantage of a broad exception to the state's public records law.
Plus: Violence in Sri Lanka leads to social media suppression, and the White House wants to make it harder for pretrial diversion participants to get government jobs.
A court rejects a clever effort to obtain President Trump's tax records
More than 50 years later, it is a wheezing, arthritic artifact of more optimistic times.
Thousands of cats have been killed over 50 years of experiments. Why is the USDA denying feline fatality FOIA requests?
Thanks to a design bug in a government transparency website, dozens of social security numbers were mistakenly made public.
In a case brought by two Muslim men seeking surveillance records on themselves, the court approves the NYPD's "neither confirm nor deny" response.
I sent a FOIA request to the lab that processes guns seized by police in the nation's capital. Here's what I found out.
Cops got probation even after internal tribunal found them guilty of excessive force, sexual harassment, and ticket-fixing
What trade would that be, exactly?
How a silly record request revealed a deeper problem with FBI transparency.
"He is known to be a member of the Libertarian Party."
Government officials cannot skirt public records laws by using private email accounts.
Journalists shouldn't have to sue to get public information.
Another tiresome example of selective political outrage ensues.
A campaign promise becomes a punchline.
IRS charges nonprofit $750K to see FOIA records on asset forfeiture.
Between the WikiLeaks revelations, FOIA requests, and FBI investigation, there are important details among the noise.
In search of Guy Sims Fitch
FBI refuses to publicly reveal security vulnerability.
"I don't react well when my honesty is questioned," Judge Brenda Weaver says.
It's not about fighting terrorism; it's about finding leakers.
Copy of Senate report 'mistakenly' gets destroyed as government successfully resists release.
How the letter urging a RICO investigation of groups dissenting from the climate consensus was concocted
Clinton had characterized the FBI's investigation as "routine," but the DOJ now refers to it as a "law enforcement proceeding."
After The Virginian-Pilot requested the names of all police officers in the state to track problem cops.
But the Office of the Attorney General told Reason they had no record of that request.
Actually, science only works well when all researchers show their work
Sherry Smith just wants to know how the school system decided on placement for her special-needs son.
She was getting pulled aside and interrogated almost a decade before Citizenfour.
Another record in avoiding transparency
Secrecy breeds mistrust among the public, an assumption that the government is doing things it shouldn't
James Bamford's battles with the National Security Agency.
"Transparency" continues to elude feds.
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