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Thanks to the 150+ people who added their names to our request(s) for the full Mueller Report! You can follow those requests here and here.

MuckRock heads to the 2019 Oxford Literary Festival

MuckRock is excited to announce that thanks to the generous support of MIT Press, JPat Brown and Beryl Lipton will be presenting a talk this weekend at the 2019 Oxford Literary Festival on our book, Writers under Surveillance: The FBI Files.

As part of Watergate, FBI investigated a fake press release on Hubert Humphrey campaign stationary targeting Shirley Chisholm

Documents released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress and the first black major-party candidate for president, reveal that in 1973, the FBI investigated a smear campaign concerning Chisholm as a part of their Watergate investigation. The campaign, allegedly the work of the infamous Committee to Re-elect the President, involved a falsified press release full of racist and sexist insults, typed on what appeared to be official Hubert Humphrey campaign stationary.

Your help is vital to MuckRock’s project on algorithmic accountability

Algorithms and artificial intelligence are playing an ever-increasing role in the lives of all Americans. MuckRock, in collaboration with the the Rutgers Institute for Information Policy and Law is building a catalogue of the algorithms and AI being considered, used, and regulated by local, state, and federal governments. Your help is vital to our effort and only needs to take a few minutes!

Alabama reaches new milestone in barriers to access

From backlogs at the federal level to legal limitations at state and local, requesters are no strangers to the barriers met in access to information. But every now and then, an agency will make a demand so brazen or just plain bizarre that it’ll bring even the jaded #FOIA community to pause.

Senator James Eastland’s allegations about “Red spy rings” debunked by his own aide in FBI file

As part of a recent push to clear their FOIA backlog, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has released 30 pages of new documents on Senator James Eastland, adding to the 521 previously released pages. Among the new documents is a remarkable one-page memo suggesting that Eastland’s public assertion about “Red spy rings” were the result of the Senator confusing New York Times reporters with spies.

MuckRock data shows requesters are highly interested in law enforcement records

From restrictive laws contributing to prolonged response times, and high fees stopping the release of records, the State of State Public Records Laws is on a bumpy ride. To get a better sense of what’s going on at the state and local level, we’ve been analyzing our MuckRock data and finding the trends in records requesting.

Release Notes: A new way to manage your account on FOIA Machine and MuckRock

After months of behind the scenes work, our new accounts management tools are now live. Upgrades include more starting users (five instead of three), the ability to invite to join an Organization via email, and the ability to switch between organization accounts and personal accounts with just a click.

FOIA March Madness 2019: Round Two begins

Five lessons from “FOIA Strategies and Tactics”

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