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Category: News

What Does a Government Shutdown Mean for FOIA?

October 17, 2025
Disaster Struck in Texas While Climate Data Disappears

August 22, 2025
New Classification Bill Highlights Ongoing Bipartisan Efforts to Improve Government Transparency

August 9, 2024
Tomorrow is Deadline to Submit Comments to Stop CIA Plan to Destroy Important Files

July 18, 2017
Nixon’s Nuclear Specter Receives Award from the U.S. Military History Group

June 21, 2017
Now is the Time for Archivist of the US to Call the Torture Report a Federal Record

June 2, 2017
FOIA Reform Adopted after Years-Long Battle

June 15, 2016
FOIA Federal Advisory Committee Votes to Update Outdated FOIA Fee Guidance; More

April 19, 2016
Archive’s Nomination of DOE for FOILIES Award for Egregious B5 Invocation Reminder Why FOIA Reform Necessary

March 16, 2016
ODNI Tries to Sneak Through Astronomically High MDR Fees Out of Step with Obama Administration’s Open Gov Commitments

March 1, 2016
Why it’s “bizarre and disgraceful” that NARA won’t call the torture report a federal record.

February 29, 2016
Oscar Mejía Víctores Dead at 85: Guatemalan dictator dies as human rights trials resume

February 8, 2016
The Real Legacy of Clinton’s Personal Email: Outdated Government-wide Email Management and Overclassification

January 27, 2016
FOIA Fee Survey Results Are In: Fee System Not Working, but no Consensus on Best Fix

January 15, 2016
FOIA Advisory Committee To Act on Inadequate OMB Fee Guidance

December 8, 2015
OGIS Posts More Response Letters Online

November 20, 2015
The Pinochet File: U.S. Declassifies Missing Documents in the Letelier-Moffitt Case

October 13, 2015
140 UK Groups Protest Bias on New FOIA Commission

September 29, 2015
The Real Deal on PDBs

September 18, 2015
Freeing the President’s Daily Brief

September 18, 2015