Tag: Freedom of Information Act
The NYPD has a dodgy history with the Freedom of Information Act. According to reporter Sean Musgrave, the department tends to simply ignore any requests for disclosure it receives from journalists, despite being required by law to honor them. As Musgrave points out, even the NSA has a better FOIA record. To make sense of […]
Here’s an exciting development for investigative journalists and anyone else interested in uncovering what their government is doing: FOIA Machine, a new service designed to simplify the often arduous, complex, and time-consuming process of filing a Freedom of Information Act request to obtain federal government documents. FOIA Machine’s creators bill it as a “TurboTax for […]
