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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Gizmodo: Free Meals and Other Perks From Big Pharma Really Do Sway Doctors, Review Finds gizmodo.com/free-meals-and-other-pe…

Excerpt: An overwhelming majority of the studies (88%) focused on doctors within the U.S., largely due to the fact that the Physician Payments Sunshine Act of 2010 has required pharmaceutical firms to report all details of their payments to doctors for inclusion in a publicly searchable database.

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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

LA Times: Police lawsuits have cost L.A. nearly half a billion dollars since 2019, new data show www.latimes.com/california/story/20…

Excerpt: The Times reviewed hundreds of pages of court documents and analyzed data from the city attorney’s office released through a public records request showing nearly 2,000 payouts dating to January 2019.

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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

404 Media: 'It Is Done. Hail Satan:' City Immediately Regrets New Religious Liberty Law That Allows Prayer at City Council Meeting www.404media.co/it-is-done-hail-sat…

Excerpt: In 2024 — the same year Governor Kim Reynolds signed a state law meant to protect religious freedom — officials blocked Satanists from holding their winter celebration. The ACLU filed a Freedom of Information Act request looking for records about the incident and, earlier this year, sued Iowa on behalf of the Satanic Temple for violating federal free speech laws.

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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

ProPublica: Club Med, a Disney Cruise and an Exploding Starship: SpaceX Used Bystander Videos to Track Falling Debris www.propublica.org/article/spacex-s…

Excerpt: The FAA provided ProPublica the reports on Starship flights 7, 8 and 9 — all of which involved mishaps — after we requested them under the Freedom of Information Act. The FAA redacted the vast majority of all three reports, citing, among other things, exemptions in the law that protect confidential business information from disclosure. The blackouts were, in part, a reflection of SpaceX’s objections; FAA allowed the company to challenge the release of information it deemed proprietary.

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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

The Intercept: The Intercept Sues Texas City Over Refusal to Release Police Records on Prairieland Protest theintercept.com/2026/09/29/interce…

Excerpt: Despite The Intercept agreeing to pay hundreds of dollars for the records, the city has failed to process the payment and left the records request in limbo, according to the complaint and to attorney Terry Mutchler, a veteran defender of records access who is representing The Intercept in the case.

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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

The Intercept: Prison That Didn’t Report Sex Abuse Allegation Against Staffer to Reopen as ICE Camp theintercept.com/2026/09/29/ice-pri…

Excerpt: There were at least two other incidents of sexual abuse reported during the period covered by the 2023 PREA report, according to Arizona Department of Corrections investigative reports obtained through public records requests. One was from August 2022 about an employee allegedly kissing an incarcerated person and having an email correspondence with him that was “sexual in nature.” In another case, just weeks before the 2023 PREA audit was conducted, the corrections department’s Criminal Investigative Unit conducted interviews about an allegation that a prison guard had encouraged an incarcerated person to perform oral sex. Those allegations also should have appeared on the subsequent PREA audit but did not.

Excerpt: The details of Simmons’s case were recounted in an April 2022 investigative report from an Arizona Department of Corrections Office of Inspector General, which was obtained by LOOKOUT and The Intercept through a public records request.

Excerpt: The Marana prison, Randall said, was plagued by widespread drug use before it closed. Drug use came up in the inspector general office’s report as well as in a list of investigations conducted by Arizona Department of Corrections about Marana, also obtained by records request.

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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

The Intercept: ICE Deleted Reviews for Deaths in Custody That Cited Shoddy Medical Care theintercept.com/2026/09/30/ice-cus…

Excerpt: A total of eight such reviews related to detainee deaths from 2025 were published in a trove of 25-plus documents on ICE’s public records library on September 25. Four days later, a little after a lawyer representing this reporter in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit noticed these documents, ICE appeared to have pulled them offline and de-indexed them.

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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

The Intercept: Oregon Police Are Charging a Local News Outlet $2.5M for Records About One Cop theintercept.com/2026/10/01/oregon-…

Excerpt: In August, the local news outlet Double Sided Media filed a public records request for records about police officer Justin Peckels, which focused on potential misconduct between 2018 and 2026. Peckels has been the subject of community complaints, including for punching a resident in the face during a traffic stop, making the records vital for oversight and their release clearly in the public interest.

Excerpt: Peckels’s file is either the largest in the world, or city officials have intentionally maintained their databases in such a way as to ensure fulfilling public records requests is prohibitively expensive. The city’s response points, at a minimum, to the latter. It justified the multimillion-dollar price tag by claiming it couldn’t narrow the custodians whose records it would need to search, despite the targeted nature of the request, and maintained it must search all records of all city employees, past and present.

Excerpt: In 2015, the Department of Defense told a Freedom of Information Act requester, who was asking for records on tools used to preserve data on seized devices, that fulfilling their request would take 15 million hours and cost $660 million.

Excerpt: Luckily, records requesters seeking federal documents have a defense against these capricious invoices. Recent FOIA amendments aim to ensure if an agency misses its response deadlines, it can’t charge most fees.

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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

ProPublica: I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP. www.propublica.org/article/draftkin…

Excerpt: The law also requires sportsbooks like DraftKings to submit a “problem-gaming plan” to the state regulator but leaves the specifics of it up to the companies. The plan must include, among other things, procedures “for identifying users with suspected or known problem-gaming behavior” and for “providing information to users concerning problem-gaming identification and resources.” But the exact details are unclear because such plans are not publicly available. (A DraftKings spokesperson wouldn’t provide a copy, and my request for it under the state’s open records law with the gaming commission is under review.)

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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

ProPublica: How Texas Helped a Private School Chain’s AI Tool Get Into Public School Classrooms www.propublica.org/article/alpha-sc…

Excerpt: The office said Houston ISD wasn’t paying Alpha for the pilot but did not provide more details. The district asked the Texas attorney general to withhold the contract from the newsrooms under the state’s public records act.

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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

ProPublica: Her Agency Distributes Billions for Housing Projects. Her Husband’s Company Helped Develop Some of Them. www.propublica.org/article/oregon-h…

Excerpt: The spokesperson, LeiLani Barney, told ProPublica to file a formal records request to learn who’s on the internal committee. Bell advises the housing council as it sets policy and makes funding decisions, according to the agency’s website.

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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

ProPublica: Our Reporter Spent 10 Weeks Gambling on DraftKings. Here Are 5 Things He Learned. www.propublica.org/article/sports-g…

Excerpt: In New York, sportsbooks like DraftKings have to submit a “problem-gaming plan” to the state regulator but the law leaves the specifics of it up to the companies. The plan must include, among other things, procedures “for identifying users with suspected or known problem-gaming behavior” and for “providing information to users concerning problem-gaming identification and resources.” The exact details are unclear because such plans are not publicly available. (A DraftKings spokesperson wouldn’t provide a copy, and Pearson’s request for it under the state’s open records law with the gaming commission is under review.)

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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

ProPublica: I’ve Covered Death Row Cases for Nearly a Decade. What Happened to Christa Pike Wasn’t an Anomaly. www.propublica.org/article/christa-…

Excerpt: It’s not clear how old the drugs were that Tennessee used in Pike’s execution, though records obtained by ProPublica suggest the state purchased some earlier this year. An email from the corrections department to the state comptroller, turned over in response to a public records request regarding payments for lethal injection drugs, showed that the prison agency spent $650,000 this year on execution-related expenses. Legal experts said it’s still not clear where the drug supplies came from, when they were made or even whether they were manufactured by a pharmaceutical company or mixed in a compounding pharmacy.

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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

Gizmodo: Legal Experts Are Alarmed the SEC Isn’t Investigating Trump-Linked Crypto Venture gizmodo.com/legal-experts-are-alarm…

Excerpt: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission could not find records of an investigation into AI Financial Corporation, formerly Alt5 Sigma, over the previous year, according to a Freedom of Information Act response obtained byÂ POGO Investigates. AI Financial is the public company that cut a massive 2025 deal with World Liberty Financial, the Trump family crypto venture, and then saw its stock collapse as investors got hammered.

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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

The Intercept: Local Cops Flout Sanctuary Law to Help ICE Deport Immigrants theintercept.com/2026/08/25/illinoi…

Excerpt: The exchange was captured on body-worn camera footage obtained by Injustice Watch through a Freedom of Information Act request.

Excerpt: Injustice Watch’s investigation draws on more than 30 hours of body-worn camera footage, 394 records requests, and more than 100 court filings, as well as conversations with more than 20 people who were flagged, detained, or deported, and more than 50 of their relatives. Many would talk only on the condition of anonymity, afraid of retaliation or ashamed of what had happened to them.

Excerpt: Some agencies refused to turn over records sought through FOIA requests; Injustice Watch is suing more than a dozen local, state, and federal agencies to pry them loose. The true count of people swept up under local-federal collaborations is almost certainly higher, in part because of missing records.

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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

The Intercept: Pentagon Spokesperson Admits There’s a Secret Blacklist of Journalists theintercept.com/2026/08/24/pentago…

Excerpt: Military commands have regularly led this reporter on with promises of information only to renege months later; ignored calls and emails; feigned failing phone lines to end calls; hung up, lost Freedom of Information Act requests; and once even burned documents in lieu of releasing them.

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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

HuffPost: Fauci's Lawyers Set Up Legal Defense Fund Amid Mounting Probes www.huffpost.com/entry/fauci-legal-…

Excerpt: David Morens, a former adviser to Fauci, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to conspiring to evade public records laws and conceal government documents related to grant research funding and the COVID pandemic. Paul has referred to that case multiple times this week, asking whether it could implicate Fauci.

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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

ProPublica: Oregon Is Spending More Than Ever on Low-Income Housing. A State Law Keeps the Details Secret. www.propublica.org/article/oregon-a…

Excerpt: Oregon is one of the only states in the country with a carve-out in its public records law that prevents disclosing the financial details of subsidized housing projects, thwarting researchers and journalists who have tried to examine their costs.

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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

LA Times: Hundreds suffered ill health from massive Boyle Heights warehouse fire, new survey finds www.latimes.com/california/story/20…

Excerpt: Public records obtained by The Times showed that, as the fire burned for eight days, the number of patients who went to nearby hospitals reporting throat pain and concerns about smoke inhalation spiked. More than three times as many people went to emergency rooms within 10 miles of the warehouse mentioning the fire or smoke inhalation than two weeks prior.

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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

ProPublica: This Coach Is Banned From Working With Kids. Why Is He Still Coaching? www.propublica.org/article/ryan-ric…

Excerpt: Police in both jurisdictions denied records requests from ProPublica and The Post by citing an exemption under state privacy statutes, but the news organizations obtained excerpts from the police report in McAllen. In the text, an officer describes meeting with Gutierrez at the McAllen police station.

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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

HuffPost: Ex-Fauci Adviser Pleads Guilty In COVID-19 Records Scheme www.huffpost.com/entry/fauci-covid-…

Excerpt: “[I] learned from our [Freedom of Information Act] lady here how to make emails disappear after I am FOIA’d but before the search starts, so I think we are all safe. Plus I deleted most of those earlier emails after sending them to gmail,” Morens wrote in one email to the nonprofit CEO and to a co-investigator of the grant in early 2021, according to his criminal indictment.

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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

Gizmodo: The US Is Building a New Truck for Nukes, So Naturally It Smashed One Into a Wall gizmodo.com/the-us-is-building-a-ne…

Excerpt: The Mobile Guardian Transporter, the third generation of these specialty trucks, debuted in 2020 and âfor obvious reasonsâ most of what actually goes into the trucks is classified. However, according to previous FOIA requests, there is reportedly an â18-wheel rig that incorporates various deterrents to prevent unauthorized removal of cargo,â and that it would survive being âtotally engulfed in a fire without incurring damage to the cargo.â

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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

The Intercept: ICE Worked With Iranian Regime to Set Up Deportation Flights as Trump Laid Plans for War theintercept.com/2026/08/18/iran-tr…

Excerpt: The emails, which were released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from the National Iranian American Council, or NIAC, and provided exclusively to The Intercept, show heavy pressure from high-ranking Trump administration officials to make the flights happen; discussion of coordination between ICE and Iranian officials, often through Qatari intermediaries but at times directly; and even an apparent mix-up in which ICE officials accidentally put the wrong person on a deportation flight bound for Iran.

Excerpt: Screenshot: ICE emails provided to NIAC via FOIA / Illustration: The Intercept

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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

ProPublica: At “Quasi-Public” Private Schools, 100% of Students Get Tuition Vouchers. There’s Almost No Accountability. www.propublica.org/article/private-…

Excerpt: Districts have to abide by Wisconsin’s open records law, meaning that reams of records are available to anyone who formally requests them. Not so for the private schools. Voucher schools must, by law, have at least two opportunities a year for parents to meet with the governing board. But the schools do not have to make those meetings accessible to the general public.

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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

LA Times: An oil company wants to restart fracking off the California coast. The state's top coastal officials say no way www.latimes.com/environment/story/2…

$Excerpt: Offshore fracking had been occuring quietly off the California coast for decades until about 2014. That’s when the defense center — along with the Center for Biological Diversity, Santa Barbara Channelkeeper and Wishtoyo Chumash Foundation — filed a Freedom of Information Act request and discovered that federal officials had approved at least 51 permits for offshore hydraulic fracturing and acidizing without notifying the state. The industry uses the terms “enhanced recovery” and “well stimulation techniques” to describe these controversial methods to extend the life of an oil well.$

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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

ProPublica: Is There Anyone Who Can Respond to My FOIA Requests? Anyone? www.propublica.org/article/foia-req…

Excerpt: I file a lot of Freedom of Information Act requests. I’ve been requesting staff lists from both Trump administrations, and I have tracked thousands of federal political appointees in order to publish financial disclosures in searchable databases.

Excerpt: Much of that data was sourced from the Office of Personnel Management, which maintains a trove of information about who works in the federal government. But that agency’s FOIA department was thrown into chaos as Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency fanned out across federal agencies to cut employees in early 2025.

Excerpt: “They just let the whole Privacy team go,” a now-former FOIA specialist at OPM told me by email in February 2025, referring to public records office staff. The specialist was cut the next day.

Excerpt: According to OPM data, more than 600 government information specialists (staffers who administer FOIA and the Privacy Act) have resigned or been fired since the start of the second Trump administration. Within OPM itself, 12 information specialists left, seven of whom were laid off. (There was one new hire in that time period.)

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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

Gizmodo: ‘They Are Thieves’: FTC Complaints About Hims & Hers Detail Surprise Charges gizmodo.com/hims-hers-ftc-subscript…

Excerpt: Last week, the FTC filed a lawsuit against telehealth company Hims & Hers for allegedly disclosing private health information to third parties and engaging in shady subscription practices. Gizmodo filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the FTC for consumer complaints against the company, which help give an idea of just how prevalent these practices are.

Excerpt: Hims & Hers didn’t respond to a request for comment on Thursday about the complaints, but it previously directed Gizmodo to a public statement insisting that the FTC “contorts the law to try to manufacture claims.â Gizmodo will update this article if we hear back from the company about the complaints we received through FOIA.

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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

LA Times: Pregnancy, suicide attempts, frostbite: Records detail ICE medical claims before payment system collapsed www.latimes.com/politics/story/2026…

$Excerpt: The documents were released by the VA to the nonprofit watchdog group American Oversight through the Freedom of Information Act and shared exclusively with The Times. They paint the clearest picture yet of the off-site medical care received by immigrants in the custody of the federal government before the payment system fractured.$

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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

LA Times: Letters reveal the internal threats that ended Carvalho's LAUSD tenure www.latimes.com/california/story/20…

Excerpt: The June 8 letter, obtained by The Times in response to a public records request to the school district, signaled the board’s intent either to fire Carvalho or force his resignation.

Excerpt: Carvalho’s attorneys responded to the letter eight days later with a detailed confidential letter of their own, also obtained by The Times in response to a public records request to the district. The attorneys said the accusations were “legally and factually deficient” and “a political hit job — an effort to remove a well-regarded public official who had the courage to stand between the [Trump] Administration’s immigration enforcement apparatus and the schoolchildren of this city.”

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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

404 Media: ‘DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE’: How Cops Are Trying to Hide the Existence of Flock www.404media.co/do-not-mention-alpr…

Excerpt: It is not just local police in small communities who are creating policies designed to obfuscate Flock usage. Earlier this year, we reported that police in multiple states were being told to be “as vague as permissible” about why they were using Flock because their searches could be obtained using public records requests, and that warning was being shared by the FBI and Department of Justice. Residents of many towns using Flock also say that their cities entered into contracts with Flock with little public oversight, essentially quietly opting them into a nationwide surveillance network without robust public debate.

Excerpt: Wapello County’s “standard operating procedures” document for Flock cameras was created in November of 2025 and was obtained by a 404 Media reader using a public records request and was shared with us. Coincidentally, Wapello County’s largest city is Ottumwa, Iowa, where 404 Media ran a Super Bowl commercial earlier this year. The county has four Flock cameras via a contract it signed with the company in late 2024. The policy further instructs police to be vague in any arrest report, suggesting that they simply call the Flock system “county resources.”

Excerpt: In the public records request, Sheriff Don Phillips said “there is no need” to tell people about the use of Flock.

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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

The Intercept: The Pentagon Found a New Way to Undercount U.S. Casualties in Iran theintercept.com/2026/08/04/us-mili…

Excerpt: Recent reporting by the War Horse, using Pentagon records obtained via the Freedom of Information Act, found more than 400 casualties were recorded between February 28 and April 8. Seventy occurred on March 18 alone, but this huge single-day toll was never reported by the Pentagon.

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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

HuffPost: John Oliver Exposes The 'Weird' Ways Police Use Surveillance Tech And... Uhh www.huffpost.com/entry/john-oliver-…

Excerpt: Oliver highlighted how Rialto requires new businesses to link their cameras to Fusus, an effort that nudged his team to file several public records requests with the city’s police department, including one for a “searchable digital file” of a log database showing when police “peeked” at a private camera.

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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

LA Times: Exclusive LAX terminal embroiled in messy dispute with security consultant to the stars www.latimes.com/california/story/20…

Excerpt: Young said LAWA has refused to comply with public records requests for documents about those decisions.

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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

The Marshall Project: It Was Supposed to Be a Haven for Troubled Teens. They Risked Everything to Escape. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/07/…

Excerpt: To understand what was happening inside Fox Run, The Marshall Project reviewed hundreds of pages of police and state inspection reports between 2020 and 2025, obtained through public records requests, and interviewed seven women previously housed in the facility. These records and interviews told stories of children desperate to escape, fleeing into cornfields, sprinting into traffic, and attempting to hitchhike. Former Fox Run staff members said the youth turned violent inside the facility because they were pushed to their limit. Many eventually ended up in juvenile detention as their behavior escalated. They thought ending up behind bars, like facing the frozen woods, would be an improvement over Fox Run.

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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

The Marshall Project: Were You in Residential Treatment as a Minor? Here Are the Records You’re Entitled To. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/07/…

Excerpt: If law enforcement responded to calls made from a facility during your time there, you may also be able to collect records they made about what happened under your state’s public records laws. Access to law enforcement records varies by location, type of record and whether it’s part of an active investigation. However, people are often able to acquire reports in which they are named, so it’s worth making the request. The worst they can say is “no.”

Excerpt: Here is a records request template with a detailed list of documents the facility may have on file about you, including but not limited to:

Excerpt: Remember that there are no concerns about plagiarism when it comes to making records requests, so you’re free to copy and paste the template language or other examples you find.

Excerpt: We have information below with tips on what to do when a records request is denied.

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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

ProPublica: Andy Beshear Set Out to Make Drug Treatment Widely Available in Kentucky. Fraud and Abuse Followed. www.propublica.org/article/andy-bes…

Excerpt: In 2024, ARC disclosed what it called billing errors that resulted in overpayments from the state, according to emails obtained through Kentucky’s open records laws.

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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

LA Times: The LAPD has quietly stopped putting many public records online www.latimes.com/california/story/20…

Excerpt: Such records had previously been posted online almost daily in response to records requests from members of the public.

Excerpt: Postings of records requests submitted by the public to the LAPD also largely stopped last April, when they declined from 250 to 460 a month at their peak to single digits, according to Shapiro’s research brief.

Excerpt: Department watchdogs argue that public records allow residents to evaluate how the LAPD and other agencies are performing and look for ways to improve. Commonly used by journalists, lawyers, academics and advocacy groups such as the ACLU, public information can be requested by anyone under the California Public Records Act.

Excerpt: With recent departures, the number of employees responsible for processing most records requests has dropped to 17 employees from 27, officials said.

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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

The Markup: Kaiser Permanente nurses say technology is making their jobs — and patient care — worse themarkup.org/artificial-intelligen…

Excerpt: It’s not clear how patient care is affected by algorithmic management, nor is the impact of limiting the length of triage and advice calls on patients. Kaiser call center nurses can’t say for certain whether the pressures they face results in adverse outcomes for patients because their contact with patients ends after they hang up the phone. A 2024 public records request by CalMatters to the California Department of Managed Health Care found no complaints by patients against Kaiser related to call times. But nurses insist the risk to patient safety and quality of care is real.

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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

404 Media: Flock's CEO Says its ALPRs Don't Do Video After Repeatedly Announcing They Can www.404media.co/flocks-ceo-says-its…

Excerpt: Text messages obtained using a public records request by Jason Hunyar, an activist in Dunwoody, Georgia, show that cops in Dunwoody turned on this feature. The text messages are between John Watson, a Flock employee, and a Dunwoody police officer from January of this year.

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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

The Marshall Project: How Helping Detectives Led a Florida Woman to ICE Detention www.themarshallproject.org/2026/07/…

Excerpt: While the agreements have repeatedly led to the detention of alleged crime victims, Daniela’s arrest by a 287(g) officer is peculiar in that it appears to have sidelined an open investigation. The Department of Financial Services did not provide documents in response to numerous records requests. It’s not clear how the fraud investigation that began with Daniela’s tip was resolved, whether other probes may have been affected by similar immigration arrests or how many other detectives with the agency are deputized to detain immigrants.

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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

The Marshall Project: Amid Increased Scrutiny, ICE Detention and Deportation Data Goes Dark www.themarshallproject.org/2026/07/…

Excerpt: The Deportation Data Project has become a go-to source for reporters and researchers, building on work compiling immigration data by groups like the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse. It files Freedom of Information Act requests, sues when agencies stall and posts the raw files online for free, with tools to filter to a specific state or rough locality. Transparency advocates say this work shouldn’t absolve ICE of its duty to publicly report its data.

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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

ProPublica: How to Research Private Schools Like an Investigative Reporter www.propublica.org/article/how-to-r…

Excerpt: I’m Mollie Simon, a research reporter at ProPublica. We find information through news reports, public records requests, tips from experts and readers, and sometimes through pure elbow grease. For example, we took the time to compare lists of certified teachers who had been disciplined to lists of private school operators in eight states, to check for examples of people moving from public schools to private schools after being accused of wrongdoing.

Excerpt: * Ask the state to see complaints. You could reach out to your state’s education agency and request any documented complaints it has received regarding a school by making a public records request. Arkansas, for example, maintains a hotline and an email address where people can report concerns about suspected financial misconduct.

Excerpt: Records requests can take some time to process, and there may be a cost associated with asking for such documents. You can learn more about asking for public records from MuckRock.

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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

ProPublica: How Videos Helped Me Uncover Abuse at an Arkansas Private School www.propublica.org/article/arkansas…

Excerpt: Eventually, I was able to obtain video evidence recorded from inside the school. With the help of Arkansas Times reporter Milo Strain, I submitted a Freedom of Information Act request for video footage to the Craighead County Sheriff’s Office and to the prosecutor who brought the charges on behalf of the state.

Excerpt: Now I want to share some of that footage with you. It’s sourced mostly from my open records requests, plus one video that was shared with me by a parent who consented to its publication. While the videos are difficult to watch, they are important in that they show not only the mistreatment of students at one particular private school but also the systemic lack of oversight that allows private schools to operate with few regulations and little monitoring.

Excerpt: A detective went to the school in April 2025 with a warrant and retrieved a roughly 40-minute clip of footage recorded by a camera in the classroom. I obtained that through a Freedom of Information Act request, and it’s really the only unfiltered view we have into the methods Morrison was using at her school.

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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026

LA Times: Chabria: This California bill is so bad it has me agreeing with a Trump Republican www.latimes.com/california/story/20…

Excerpt: For as long as I’ve been a journalist, which is a really long time, public entities have hated public records requests, even while claiming they don’t.

Excerpt: Then turn in the most benign of public records requests — access to a calendar, for example — and prepare for weeks of delays and excuses. Want emails or financial records or, heaven forbid, anything from the police? Months or even years may pass before a single page is delivered, no joke.

Excerpt: That’s why I am deeply concerned about a bill winding its way through the California Legislature that would definitely slow down public records requests and likely make them more difficult and expensive. At its worst, it could push people into costly court battles just for having the audacity to ask for information.

Excerpt: “It was never the author’s intention to take away people’s rights to a [Public Records Act] request,” said her chief of staff, Nikki Johnson.

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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026

The Intercept: The Intercept Sues to Uncover Secretive Government Anti-Protester Database theintercept.com/2026/06/24/interce…

Excerpt: The Intercept is challenging the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s refusal to release public documents relating to an unlawful database intended to stifle protest and punish people who exercise their First Amendment rights. In a complaint filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York today, The Intercept is asking the court to compel the government to release documents requested through the Freedom of Information Act regarding increased surveillance and travel restrictions for protesters. The Intercept is represented by Democracy Forward in the case.

Excerpt: In order to shed light on these reported abuses of power, earlier this year, The Intercept filed FOIA requests to help uncover important information about DHS’s efforts to increase surveillance of protesters and unlawful retaliation against people exercising their rights. Despite acknowledging the receipt of the requests, DHS has not produced the requested public documents, as required by law.

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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2026

404 Media: Libraries Not Doing Pride Displays Say They ‘Shouldn’t Be Judged’ www.404media.co/libraries-not-doing…

Excerpt: The next day, she was fired. Public records obtained by 404 Media offer insight into Rodman’s dismissal and how the decision reflected poorly on the library. It represents one of hundreds of public records requests filed in jurisdictions in which we’ve received a tip or followed up on incidents of censorship and self-censorship related to LGBTQ+ focused or Pride-related book displays. Records from a handful of public libraries show a willingness from library leadership to tolerate acts of self-censorship in anticipation of unwanted attention from certain community members, and in some cases, religious leaders. This tends to show up in hesitancy to organize cultural heritage programming and LGBTQ+ book displays.

Excerpt: In public records obtained by 404 Media, librarians regularly discussed the challenges they face with their leadership. Some of the things we've read include:

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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2026

The Intercept: ICE Tried to Deport an Asylum-Seeker. Now He’s Being Denied Care for a Growing Tumor in a Private Prison. theintercept.com/2026/06/23/ice-cor…

Excerpt: In 2015, a guard pepper-sprayed a detainee while he was in full restraints and confined to a medical isolation cell, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement records released under the Freedom of Information Act. In another instance from the same records, a detainee was restrained to a bed and chair for over four days. The “vendor” at the time, Immigration Centers of America, did not deny the incident but said that the action was justified. ICE responded that they would not sanction the facility for the use of force.

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