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Right to Know – A New Campaign From Guido Fawkes

Your responses are flying in for Right to Know. Right to Know is a new campaign to stop Labour’s clampdown on Freedom of Information requests. Labour is considering lowering the co...

FOIA & Federal Contractors: How to Protect Sensitive Information

Federal contractors often face unique challenges when their work intersects with the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). While FOIA primarily governs federal agencies, contractors c...

The Foilies: Recognizing the worst failures of government transparency 

'For the People' means citizens and media have access to government records

The Ottawa Citizen's Letter to the Editor, Saturday, May 16

Freedom of Information – Exemption 5 protects draft PTAB written decision

The 4th Circuit affirms withholding of draft PTAB written decisions under FOIA exemption 5 as predecisional and deliberative in EDVA. The post Freedom of Information – Exemption 5...

Your Right to Know: How to jump-start your records requests

Introducing Right to Know – A New Campaign From Guido Fawkes

Today we’re launching Right to Know. Right to Know is a new campaign to stop Labour’s clampdown on Freedom of Information requests. Labour is considering lowering the cost ceiling...

VLSI Tells Fed. Circ. To Allow Whistleblower Report After FOIA

VLSI Technology LLC urged the Federal Circuit Tuesday to unseal at least part of an anonymous whistleblower report that allegedly shows a connection between Intel Corp. and Patent...

Right to Know: Whitehall Becomes Even More Secretive Under Labour

According to new figures for 2025 released by the Cabinet Office, Whitehall departments are becoming more secretive year-on-year. The right to Freedom of Information is under threa...

Ontario passes law shielding provincial ministers’ records from information requests

The Legislative Assembly of Ontario voted on Thursday to exempt records held by ministers from freedom of information (FOI) requests. The amendment is said to have violated the rig...

Feds look to revamp Privacy Act

The legislation has not been 'substantially updated' since 1983.

US Justice Department inspector announces audit of Epstein files

The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Thursday that it will audit the DOJ’s compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act...

Your Right to Know: How to solve high record costs and long delays

US government watchdog to investigate Epstein files release

The justice department's inspector general will review the withholding and overdue release of secret files.

DOW Releases First Batch of Declassified Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Files

The Trump administration launches public portal for UAP records Agencies began releasing previously undisclosed files The review effort covers decades of UAP records The Department...

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Department Of War Releases Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Files In Historic Transparency Effort

Today, the Department of War announced the initial release of new, never-before-seen files on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) as part of the Presidential Unsealing and Repor...

Tamil Nadu Information Commission pulls up PIO for delaying information under RTI Act

U.S. government releases classified UFO files to the public

The U.S. government threw open its classified UFO files on Friday, releasing never-before-seen documents, videos, and photos through a new interagency program and making them freel...

The FOIA, the Weather, and Meetings

Bitter cold snaps and snowstorms (along with non-winter related weather events) may not just be annoying, they can also impact compliance with Connecticut’s Freedom of Information...

‘Completely unacceptable’: Investigations finds DND ignored records requests

Parliament's Information Commissioner Caroline Maynard ordered the release of records requested by Global News and urged Defence Minister David McGuinty to make changes at DND.