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FOIA Delivers: NLEAD Data Reporting

Popping in briefly to share my first piece for The Appeal - an outlet I’ve loved reading since they set up shop. It’s about the now-defunct National Law Enforcement Accountability Database (NLEAD) President Biden established in 2022. Feder...

a year ago
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Unf*ck Your FOIA

On Tuesday, February 18, 2025, I’ll offer the first in series of trainings based on a manuscript I’m working on called Unf*ck Your FOIA: A Field Guide to Freeing the Information We Need to Survive.

Click here to register.

There are a lot...

a year ago
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The Coming FOIA Deep Freeze

“Popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prelude to a farce or a tragedy.”

I. The Promise: FOIA as Engine & Emergency Brake for Democracy

The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and analog st...

a year ago
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How to Construct FOIA Requests

In this video, I walk through the basics of constructing an open records request using examples from a DHS Significant FOIA Activity dataset. The intended audience for this tutorial is new requestors who may be bought into the idea that ope...

2 years ago
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Ep. 2 Faced with FOIA Delays, Don't Get Mad. Get Meta

Seemingly interminable delays can be the bane of a FOIA requestor’s existence. Three simple FOIA tools can help shorten waits and sharpen requests.

Effective requestors think hard before sending requests:

Media Requestor is a reader-sup...

2 years ago

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