Court Upholds Release of Corporate Jets List Sought by ProPublica
A federal district judge ruled Friday that a list of private planes whose flights are blocked from the public view should be released … more…
White House Gives Agencies Transparency To-Do List
Open-government advocates got an early holiday gift from the White House today.
The Office of Management and Budget gave federal a … more…
Workshop on Government Openness Is Closed to Public
Update (4:34 p.m.): This afternoon, the Office of Information Policy, part of the U.S. Department of Justice posted some of its trai … more…
DOJ Says It’s Pushing Agencies on Openness
Associate Attorney General Thomas Perrelli told (PDF) the Senate Judiciary Committee today that the Department of Justice is pushing … more…
Transparency Groups: Obama Makes Strides but Still Has Work to Do
In November, we wrote about the transparency to-do list (PDF) that open-records advocates gave President Obama.
So three months … more…
Quick Picks: FBI Stashes Documents Where The Sun Don’t Shine
Quick Picks focuses on a select few of the day's stories from "Breaking on the Web."
Apparently, nothing is a more difficult quar … more…Talking With the Former FOIA Czar
March 13: This post has been corrected.
Dan Metcalfe directed the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Information Policy for mor … more…
Fed Secrecy and Leftover Earmarks
Quick Picks focuses on a select few of the day's stories from "Breaking on the Web."
Bloomberg News filed a FOIA lawsuit aga … more…What Gov’t Docs Would You Like to See Published?
The 1996, yes, 1996 revision of the Freedom of Information Act, known as EFOIA, called for federal agencies to post frequently reques … more…
Latest Midnight Regs: FOIA, Mining, Logging, Oh My!
It's time for a Monday update on President Bush's midnight regulations. As we mentioned last week, new rules -- proposed or finalized … more…
Agencies Move to Restrict FOIA Access in Last-Minute Regs
This story was co-published with the Columbia Journalism Review.
As one of the most secretive presidential administrations in hist … more…
Midnight Regs: Skipping Public Comments, Pricey FOIAs and More
You may be sated on turkey, holiday cookies and eggnog, but we have another holiday treat for you: more pesky final rules from the Bu … more…
Big FOIA Backlog Lingers
Earlier this month, the Coalition of Journalists for Open Government ran out of funding. But before it shuts its doors, the advocacy … more…
ACLU Torture Docs Highlight Lack of Accountability
Earlier this week, the ACLU released a series of (long-FOIA'd) documents about detainee abuse it recently received from the Defense D … more…
Pentagon Releases Documents on Briefings of Retired Generals
The Pentagon has just posted thousands of pages of documents relating to its briefings of retired generals turned TV analysts. It's t … more…
September 24, 2009
High Costs Can Make Open Records Seem Closed Michael Rezendes, Boston Globe, September 24, 2009
June 23, 2009
Obama Closes Doors on Openness Michael Isikoff, Newsweek, June 23, 2009
April 28, 2009
CDC Sits on Documents Dealing With Its Reputation Alison Young, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, April 28, 2009
March 27, 2009
Despite FOIA Victory, Treasury Holds Back Dunstan Prial, Fox News, March 27, 2009
March 17, 2009
Obstacles to Fixing FOIA Abound Michael J. Sniffen, AP, March 17, 2009
March 13, 2009
FBI finds nothing for 2 out of 3 who seek records Michael J. Sniffen, AP, March 13, 2009
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