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Description of citizenship database available – if you’re willing to pay nearly $112,000

By Nick Schwellenbach

After taking nearly four years to respond to a Freedom of Information Act request, the U.S. immigration agency is demanding $111,930 for rec

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By Andrew Green

FOIA performance is getting worse

By Laurel Adams

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By Amy Biegelsen

SEC hurries to clarify new FOIA exemption amid uproar

By Ariel Wittenberg

Alaskan FOIA follies

By Te-Ping Chen

To be sure, an out-of-the-way state like Alaska may have been ill-prepared for the deluge of reporters filing Freedom of Information Act req

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By Laurel Adams

Government transparency under Obama misses the mark

By Jim Morris

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By Ariel Wittenberg

FOIA, meet POIA: Advocates will push for it again in 2011

By Amy Biegelsen

Despite new FOIA rules, old staff cuts may delay requests

By Te-Ping Chen

Since President Obama reversed former Attorney General John Ashcroft’s denial-prone directive on Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests

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State Department FOIA requests unanswered four long years later

By Josh Israel

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By Jim Morris

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By Amy Biegelsen

Government can't keep up with information requests

By The Associated Press

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New attitude towards FOIA, but who’s going to clear the backlog?

By Kat Aaron

President Obama sent a clear message to government officials in one of his first acts in office: From now on, we will comply with the spirit

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By Andrew Green

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By Jim Morris

SEC hurries to clarify new FOIA exemption amid uproar

By Ariel Wittenberg

State Department FOIA requests unanswered four long years later

By Josh Israel

SEC hurries to clarify new FOIA exemption amid uproar

By Ariel Wittenberg

The head of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission today insisted that language tucked inside the massive financial reform law does not

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SEC loses short-lived FOIA exemption in financial reform law

By Laurel Adams

Government transparency under Obama misses the mark

By Jim Morris

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By Andrew Green

FOIA performance is getting worse

By Laurel Adams

FOIA, meet POIA: Advocates will push for it again in 2011

By Amy Biegelsen

Among the many legislative leftovers still sitting in the freezer as the 111th Congress adjourns, the Public Online Information Act (POIA) l

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By Jim Morris

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By Andrew Green

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By Josh Israel

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By Ariel Wittenberg

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White House sets "CUI" designation for sensitive government documents

By Amy Biegelsen

President Barack Obama’s new executive order creating a uniform category for federal documents that are sensitive but not classified is an a

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WikiLeaks and the classification follies

By Julian Hattem

Security clearance investigators must protect data, watchdog says

By Laurel Adams

Boxes of top secret documents go missing

By Aaron Mehta and R. Jeffrey Smith

Obama order protects intelligence community whistleblowers

By David Axe

State Department FOIA requests unanswered four long years later

By Josh Israel

President Obama promised more responsivenes but delays in processing Freedom of Information Act requests are still legendary

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By Jim Morris

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By Amy Biegelsen

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By Laurel Adams

Cutting through the fog of war

By Daniel Politi

Open records law offers flawed glimpse of government contracting

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By Larry Makinson

Policing the world

By Caitlin Ginley and Laurel Adams

The struggle to police foreign subcontractors in Iraq and Afghanistan

By Nick Schwellenbach and Lagan Sebert

Timely, effective and fair?

Justice Department makes a valuable public database all but inaccessible

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States outpace Congress in upgrading lobbying laws

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