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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 59m

ProPublica: This Oil Company Is Linked to 1,000 Pollution Incidents and Other Violations. Oklahoma Never Punished It. www.propublica.org/article/oklahoma…

Excerpt: A salt scar in a southern Oklahoma oil field known as the Bayou in 2022 Obtained in an open records request from the Oklahoma Corporation Commission An old well releases a stream of wastewater in the Bayou in 2022. Obtained in an open records request from the Oklahoma Corporation Commission

Excerpt: Around the time agency leaders allowed Citation to restart injection in the Bayou, staff were drafting an extensive contempt case against the company for rule violations in other parts of the state, according to public records obtained by The Frontier and ProPublica. Field staff and consultants were still turning up considerable problems related to Citation’s injection, including excessive pressures at the sites of destructive eruptions of wastewater. The staff complaint called for the agency to issue fines and to terminate well permits. But oil division leaders never signed the paperwork for the case.

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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 26/10/2026

The Intercept: Pentagon Records Missed Almost Half of Troops’ Domestic Abuse Killings theintercept.com/2026/10/26/militar…

Excerpt: The Intercept examined publicly available news articles, obituaries, court records, memorials, and other data to investigate the specifics behind the Defense Department’s numbers. Reporters also used data obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request on Army noncombat fatalities to match names, because some news coverage did not mention the victims’ and alleged perpetrators’ military service.

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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2026

LA Times: Trump wants to strip California of coastal protections unless state meets list of demands www.latimes.com/environment/story/2…

Excerpt: The document, which The Times obtained through a public records request, said future federal funding for the state’s coastal management program has been suspended “unless and until the identified deficiencies are satisfactorily addressed.”

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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026

The Intercept: Bodycam: Cop Was Not in Danger When He Fired Shots That Killed 1-Year-Old Kohen Wiley theintercept.com/2026/10/23/kohen-w…

Excerpt: The videos, provided to The Intercept in response to a public records request, come on the heels of leaked footage that exposed how a needlessly aggressive and reckless police confrontation of two suspected shoplifters led to 1-year-old Kohen Wiley’s violent death in his mother’s arms.

Excerpt: An excerpt of the report on the police shooting of Kohen Wiley from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation released on Oct. 22, 2026, through a public records request. Screenshot: The Intercept

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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026

ProPublica: Bird Flu Is Raging on a Mink Farm. It Could Spark a Human Pandemic, Experts Say, but Officials Won’t Act. www.propublica.org/article/bird-flu…

Excerpt: Utah agriculture officials learned in mid-August that mink were dying of bird flu on C&T Fenn Farms, about an hour’s drive south from Salt Lake City, according to communications released under the state’s public records law.

Excerpt: Communications obtained under the state’s public records law — first published by the Animal Welfare Institute and reported on by the Salt Lake Tribune — show Utah officials took pains to protect the farm’s privacy amid the outbreak. The state did not declare an emergency, because doing so, officials said, “may alert animal rights groups,” according to the messages.

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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

ProPublica: Nuclear Weapons Waste Made Workers Sick. Despite a Law Meant to Help, the DOE Keeps Fighting Their Claims. www.propublica.org/article/hanford-…

Excerpt: A group of three physicians and an industrial hygienist have collectively earned over $1.7 million testifying against Hanford workers since the presumption law’s passage, according to DOE invoices the newsrooms obtained by a federal records request. One of the DOE’s go-to expert witness doctors earned more than $200,000 from the DOE last year alone. He did not respond to multiple emails seeking comment.

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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

404 Media: Cops Warned to Look for ‘Suspicious Behavior’ From People Opposing Flock at City Council Meetings www.404media.co/cops-warned-to-look…

Excerpt: The warning, obtained by 404 Media, was issued by the Orange County Intelligence Assessment Center (OCIAC)—a government fusion center—in July to police in California. 404 Media recently obtained the bulletin using a Freedom of Information Act request.

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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

The Intercept: Kohen Wiley’s Family Say They Never Heard From Investigators Who Concluded Cops Did No Wrong theintercept.com/2026/10/20/kohen-w…

Excerpt: Gibert reiterated what the agency has previously said: that body camera footage and other investigative materials will be made available through public records requests. But she added that nothing will be released until after officials meet with Wiley’s family. “We are meeting with the family later this week,” she said.

Excerpt: The man who killed Baby Kohen, as the child is now known, was identified by the press as Senatobia Police Sgt. Hunter Foster, who fired his gun into the car where Wiley was riding in the passenger’s seat on June 14. The exact circumstances that led to the shooting remain murky. Police said that officers responded to a shoplifting call at the Walmart; a two-page incident log released to The Intercept via a public records request contained no information about the shooting but noted that the items allegedly stolen were baby clothes and a pack of Pampers.

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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

Gizmodo: New Data Show How Much Worse Scams Are Getting for Americans Over 60 gizmodo.com/new-data-show-how-much-…

Excerpt: Other celebrity names are commonly used for impersonation scams, including actors well past their prime, in order to target older Americans. Scammers will frequently use Johnny Depp, for example, to convince elderly women that he’s really in love with them. The sums are astounding, according to documents we’ve obtained via FOIA. One woman in her 60s in Alabama reported losing $350,000 to a Johnny Depp impersonator, while a California woman over 80 reported losing $200,000.

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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Gizmodo: The Most Powerful Weight Loss Drug Yet Isn’t Approved, but Its Black Market May Already Be Turning Deadly gizmodo.com/the-most-powerful-weigh…

Excerpt: The deaths were reported to the FDA via its Adverse Event Reporting System, which is primarily meant to monitor the safety of approved drugs once released to the public. CBS News obtained the reports via a Freedom of Information Act request.

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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

HuffPost: Supreme Court Sides With Trump Admin In Watchdog's Lawsuit Seeking Records On DOGE www.huffpost.com/entry/supreme-cour…

Excerpt: CREW claims DOGE is a federal agency and therefore is subject to the Freedom of Information Act.

Excerpt: The Trump administration argues that DOGE is exempt from FOIA’s requirements as a presidential advisory body.

Excerpt: Cooper ruled in CREW’s favor and ordered expedited processing of the group’s records request. An appeals court panel also sided with CREW.

Excerpt: “Subjecting advisory bodies to intrusive discovery triggers the very concerns that Congress sought to avoid by excluding presidential advisory bodies from FOIA’s reach,” Justice Department attorneys wrote.

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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

The Intercept: An Arkansas Mom Obtained Public Records About a New Data Center. Then She Got Sued. theintercept.com/2026/10/13/google-…

Excerpt: Let’s start with the Arkansas case. Jessica Kivell — a mom, healthcare worker, and concerned citizen — sought to find out who was paying for a data center project in West Memphis. She filed public records requests with the Arkansas Public Service Commission and received documents indicating Google would cover only one-third of the cost of a new solar plant to power the facility, contradicting its promises that ratepayers would not be on the hook. Kivell shared the documents with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, which reported on them.

Excerpt: Entergy Arkansas, the utility set to build the solar facility, sued Kivell, the Democrat-Gazette, its reporter, and the Arkansas Times, which said it never even had the records. It claimed the commission erred by releasing the records to Kivell, that they contained trade secrets (sidenote: baseless invoking the need to protect trade secrets to duck public records laws is also a serious problem), that she and the press should be restrained from discussing them, and the Democrat-Gazette should have to take down what it had already reported. Entergy also disputed the Democrat-Gazette’s math on how Google would share the costs.

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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

ProPublica: He Waited Nine Years in Prison for His Lawyer to File a Single Brief. In This State, There’s No Rule Against It. www.propublica.org/article/post-con…

Excerpt: By filing public records requests with courts serving all 67 Pennsylvania counties and analyzing a decade of court dockets, an Inquirer and ProPublica investigation found that the system Pennsylvania set up to protect the right to counsel instead allows, or even encourages, shoddy representation.

Excerpt: Only one of the state’s 67 counties provided written criteria requiring specific work experience for lawyers to be appointed to post-conviction cases in response to records requests. Philadelphia court leadership says that lawyers must complete a training session and show they’ve recently handled three hearings involving disputed evidence. A volunteer panel tasked with approving prospective lawyers there rarely meets and is not empowered to approve or reject candidates based on writing samples, a core part of screening appeals lawyers in some other places.

Excerpt: Only five of the 18 contracts obtained in response to public records requests included a limit on the number of cases the court could heap onto a lawyer. None of the contracts set deadlines, specified a time commitment or described any oversight mechanism.

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FOIA Feed @foiafeed.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Gizmodo: Georgia Man Says Deputies Used Flock Cameras to Track Him After He Sued Sheriff gizmodo.com/georgia-man-says-deputi…

Excerpt: While that previous suit was pending, the complaint alleges, deputies were searching Flock for Murkerson’s 2024 Toyota Camry. He says he only found out after the case ended, through HaveIBeenFlocked.com, a site that publishes Flock audit logs obtained via public records requests.

Excerpt: The complaint notes the audit announcement came the same month Murkerson’s first lawsuit ended, but it doesn’t identify who resigned. It suggests the three undisclosed searches of his car may have been withheld because they’re part of the GBI inquiry, or because they were run by or shared with an out-of-state agency not subject to Georgia’s open records law.

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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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