TOLEDO, Ohio — The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) allows anyone to obtain records of federal agencies, even if they are not U.S. citizens. The requests to access these documents are commonly known ...

Last year, The Marshall Project, along with St. Louis Public Radio and APM Reports, won the Brechner Freedom of Information Award for a project on unsolved homicides. The team spent nearly three years ...

Last year, Nate Sanford filed a “silly story” for Spokane’s alt-weekly Inlander about a state senator getting into a Twitter argument with an AI porn spambot. The bot was eventually suspended after ...

Records from local, state and federal government are available to the public if one knows how to ask for them. While journalists like the team at The Charlotte Observer regularly use public records ...

Last week, federal Judge Christopher Cooper found the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was likely subject to comply ...