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Richmond creates FOIA library, but not all records are eligible

Richmond will soon post government documents requested under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) online for public viewing ...
Altoona Mirror

Districts see rise in FOIA requests

Several school district officials said they are being inundated with Right-to-Know requests filed by FOIA Buddy, a business aiming to simplify public use of the Freedom of Information Act. Ever since ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Trump Filed a FOIA Request. We FOIAed His FOIA.

Welcome back to FOIA Files, the April Fool’s Day edition! On Tuesday, April 1, the Trump administration, as part of its ongoing purge of federal workers, decimated the FOIA staffs at three government ...
Nextgov

AI can help FOIA offices combat onslaught of bot-powered requests, report says

Bots powered by artificial intelligence are inundating open records offices with often frivolous petitions, but the same tools underpinning these software applications can also help professionals ...
Bloomberg L.P.

The Case of the ‘Lost’ FOIA Requests

Welcome to a special edition of FOIA Files! Today, I published a wild story sparked by an email I received from a federal agency. It alerted me that a few days’ worth of Freedom of Information Act ...