The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1966, and the intention of the law is to make the federal government’s functioning a bit more transparent to ...

Under Illinois’ Freedom of Information Act, there is a presumption that government records are open to the public. Body cam footage is an anomaly. Its availability is dictated by the […] ...

The Justice Department is creating a wizard to help Americans making requests under the Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA. The project is meant to help people locate any information that is already ...

FOIA imposes two requirements on requests for agency records. Requests must: Reasonably describe the desired records. Be made in compliance with agency rules and regulations for making FOIA requests. ...

The ranking Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform committee said federal agencies could be severely impaired by the chairman’s recent request for hundreds of thousands of documents.

Over the past decade I've submitted hundreds of records requests to federal agencies through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). I've written extensively about the law, taught college students how ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - A Roanoke Judge has sided with the nonprofit news website Cardinal News in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) case against Roanoke City. The news organization challenged the ...

A National Institutes of Health (NIH) public liaison for Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests — who taught a senior adviser to Dr. Anthony Fauci how to “make emails disappear” — is refusing to ...