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 ...

Records from local, state and federal government are available to the public if one knows how to ask for them. While journalists like the team at The Charlotte Observer regularly use public records ...

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 ...

Last week, federal Judge Christopher Cooper found the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was likely subject to comply with public disclosure laws, which includes Freedom of Information Act ...