                        
                            Thanks to everyone who made it out to the first - and biggest - Sunshine Week Transparency Science Fair!

The annual event. The one. The only. FOIA March Madness, 2019 Edition.

We’re submitting the same request to 64 Freedom of Information Act offices. You’re predicting the agencies that’ll fulfill them. It’s FOIA March Madness year four, and there are stickers.

Two months after First Step Act, no sign work has started on its centerpiece risk assessment software

More than two months since President Donald Trump signed into law the First Step Act, the development of a risk assessment tool central to its implementation is still stalled.

As Sunshine Week draws to a close, state legislatures are set to review a number of records bills across the nation

As we wrap up Sunshine Week 2019, we’ve compiled the ultimate list of transparency bills currently making the rounds throughout state houses and senates.

The FBI feared that “Seven Days in May” was bad for America

A memo uncovered in Ronald Reagan’s Federal Bureau of Investigation file reveals the FBI’s concerns that the 1964 film “Seven Days in May,” which depicted an aborted military coup of the U.S. government, would be used as Communist propaganda - and was therefore “harmful to our Armed Forces and Nation.”

Release Notes: Crowdsourcing FOIA inspiration with Muck.Rocks and the Assignment tool

We’ve officially unveiled Muck.Rocks, a new resource that provides daily FOIA inspiration. Part of the goal of the project was to explore new ways our Assignments crowdsourcing tool could be used to solicit, manage, and incorporate audience submissions, so we’re taking a look behind the scenes at how the site works.

M uckRock's latest book "Scientists Under Surveillance: The FBI Files" is now out!

Requester’s Voice: How Keri Blakinger uses public records to dig into prisons

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Thanks to everyone who made it out to the first - and biggest - Sunshine Week Transparency Science Fair!