FOIAing with @muckrock.com helped illuminate plans for taking away public land kids play on so rich guys can play tennis. MR also helped show a lack of a plan for an athletic facility that is one of the few tangible pieces of Arthur Ashe’s legacy in Richmond.
Parents are on the court, the field and the playground, waiting for RPS officials to show up.
Double Fault
Parents are on the court, the field and the playground, waiting for RPS officials to show up.
dlvr.it
November 13, 2025 at 2:38 AM
FOIAing with @muckrock.com helped illuminate plans for taking away public land kids play on so rich guys can play tennis. MR also helped show a lack of a plan for an athletic facility that is one of the few tangible pieces of Arthur Ashe’s legacy in Richmond.
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There's still time to get ahold of our Banned Books t-shirt in support of in support of our good friends at @404media.co, @transjournalists.org and @themarshallproject.org!
It’s Banned Books Week. Want to find out about censorship in your backyard? Join the FOIAs tour
Our good friends at 404 Media, the Trans Journalists Association and the Marshall Project have all been filing requests to find out what books are banned and where, so we decided it was time to hit…
www.muckrock.com
October 20, 2025 at 3:51 PM
There's still time to get ahold of our Banned Books t-shirt in support of in support of our good friends at @404media.co, @transjournalists.org and @themarshallproject.org!
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Richmond officials should ask themselves, who benefits from their work if families end up without a home?
Back to School, Back to Work
Richmond officials should ask themselves, who benefits from their work if families end up without a home?
dlvr.it
September 17, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Richmond officials should ask themselves, who benefits from their work if families end up without a home?
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Our children are increasingly being auto-enrolled into unpaid labor for billionaires.
Ethical Content Farming
Our children are increasingly being auto-enrolled into unpaid labor for billionaires.
dlvr.it
July 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Our children are increasingly being auto-enrolled into unpaid labor for billionaires.
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Getting access to public docs is getting harder, particularly at the local level. I'm excited for @muckrock.com @nfoic.bsky.social @rcfp.org and the @brechnerfoi.bsky.social to work together to to fight for information more effectively all across the country: www.muckrock.com/news/archive...
MuckRock, NFOIC and other leading transparency groups receive $1.25M Press Forward grant to help local journalists obtain government records
Journalism relies on public records, but transparency laws are weakening nationwide, with longer response times, high fees and more frequent rejections. Agencies know that few newsrooms can research a...
www.muckrock.com
July 16, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Getting access to public docs is getting harder, particularly at the local level. I'm excited for @muckrock.com @nfoic.bsky.social @rcfp.org and the @brechnerfoi.bsky.social to work together to to fight for information more effectively all across the country: www.muckrock.com/news/archive...
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Decertifications of Virginia law enforcement officers have jumped fourfold annually since 2020, when lawmakers passed reforms during a push for police accountability. www.muckrock.com/news/archive...
As Virginia police reforms take hold, decertifications jump
After decades when few law enforcement officers in Virginia lost the right to serve in sworn positions, recent reforms have brought dramatic increases in decertifications
www.muckrock.com
June 4, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Decertifications of Virginia law enforcement officers have jumped fourfold annually since 2020, when lawmakers passed reforms during a push for police accountability. www.muckrock.com/news/archive...
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TSA complaint data disappeared. Here’s where you can still find it, thanks to the Data Liberation Project: www.muckrock.com/news/archive...
TSA complaint data disappeared. Here's where you can still find it.
Public data is disappearing—but anyone can help preserve it. Groups like the Data Rescue Project and the Data Liberation Project are racing to preserve public interest datasets and they need all kinds...
www.muckrock.com
May 28, 2025 at 2:36 PM
TSA complaint data disappeared. Here’s where you can still find it, thanks to the Data Liberation Project: www.muckrock.com/news/archive...
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“It seems it’s not about keeping order, as the students who are being punished for protesting, presumably won’t be on campus next semester, but silencing dissent. That’s a dangerous message for any public university to send.”
Denied for dissent?
Several Virginia Commonwealth University students who did everything they needed to do to graduate were denied their degree for sitting on the wrong patch of grass on April 29.
m.richmondfreepress.com
May 16, 2025 at 9:22 PM
“It seems it’s not about keeping order, as the students who are being punished for protesting, presumably won’t be on campus next semester, but silencing dissent. That’s a dangerous message for any public university to send.”
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In my latest for @bostonglobe.com , I report on the invisible village of mothers and caring strangers nourishing babies—and supporting families—at their most vulnerable. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/06/m...
After a NICU nurse’s infant died, she decided to keep pumping her breast milk to help other babies - The Boston Globe
Inside an invisible village — from caring strangers to bereaved mothers — that nourishes babies when they need it the most.
www.bostonglobe.com
May 12, 2025 at 1:47 PM
In my latest for @bostonglobe.com , I report on the invisible village of mothers and caring strangers nourishing babies—and supporting families—at their most vulnerable. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/06/m...
#FOIA ing through @muckrock.com was a great tool for finding out how other parents felt about this
Almost a year after Richmond Public Schools began enforcing clear backpacks for all students, a new RPS parent sees them for they are.
Seeing Through Clear Backpacks
Almost a year after Richmond Public Schools began enforcing clear backpacks for all students, a new RPS parent sees them for they are.
dlvr.it
May 12, 2025 at 1:36 PM
#FOIA ing through @muckrock.com was a great tool for finding out how other parents felt about this
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Richmonders' health care is at stake when the knives are out for Medicaid. Thousands more will feel the ‘catastrophic’ ripple effects.
Medicaid is Part Of Your Village – Even If You Don’t Know It
Richmonders' health care is at stake when the knives are out for Medicaid. Thousands more will feel the ‘catastrophic’ ripple effects.
dlvr.it
May 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Richmonders' health care is at stake when the knives are out for Medicaid. Thousands more will feel the ‘catastrophic’ ripple effects.
Reposted by Tom Nash
Connecticut: The guidelines also prohibit agencies from charging for the time it takes to search for and retrieve responsive records.
Virginia:
insideinvestigator.org/whistleblowe...
Virginia:
insideinvestigator.org/whistleblowe...
a penguin is holding a bag of money with the letter s on it
ALT: a penguin is holding a bag of money with the letter s on it
media.tenor.com
April 27, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Connecticut: The guidelines also prohibit agencies from charging for the time it takes to search for and retrieve responsive records.
Virginia:
insideinvestigator.org/whistleblowe...
Virginia:
insideinvestigator.org/whistleblowe...
Six years ago via @muckrock.com I was told meeting schedules were not public information. 24 hours notice is not much of an improvement. Especially given that the sweeping nature of these changes.
www.muckrock.com/news/archive...
www.muckrock.com/news/archive...
April 16, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Six years ago via @muckrock.com I was told meeting schedules were not public information. 24 hours notice is not much of an improvement. Especially given that the sweeping nature of these changes.
www.muckrock.com/news/archive...
www.muckrock.com/news/archive...
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The number of student visas revoked has breached the 1,000 mark, and doesn’t seem to be stopping any time soon.
commonwealthtimes.org
commonwealthtimes.org
April 16, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The number of student visas revoked has breached the 1,000 mark, and doesn’t seem to be stopping any time soon.
commonwealthtimes.org
commonwealthtimes.org
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MuckRock has signed a coalition amicus letter urging the Supreme Court to strike down the executive orders punishing law firms for perceived transgressions against the current administration. Read the letter on DocumentCloud. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
Media Orgs and Press Freedom Advocates Amicus Brief and Appendix as Filed
www.documentcloud.org
April 16, 2025 at 5:44 PM
MuckRock has signed a coalition amicus letter urging the Supreme Court to strike down the executive orders punishing law firms for perceived transgressions against the current administration. Read the letter on DocumentCloud. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
the short and clearly slapdash notice offered here tells us how desperately RRHA doesn't want attention on this.
www.rrha.com/news/rrha-bo...
www.rrha.com/news/rrha-bo...
RRHA BOARD TO VOTE ON THE TRANSFER OF GILPIN COURT | Richmond Redevelopment & Housing Authority
WHO: The nine appointed Board of Commissioners of the Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority (RRHA), the largest housing authority in the Commonwealth of Virginia; RRHA’s...
www.rrha.com
April 16, 2025 at 2:35 PM
the short and clearly slapdash notice offered here tells us how desperately RRHA doesn't want attention on this.
www.rrha.com/news/rrha-bo...
www.rrha.com/news/rrha-bo...
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For Sunshine Week, journalist Philip Eli walks us through a collection of FOIA-fueled nonfiction books, including on topics like organized crime in New York, the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and FBI crackdowns on college-campus radicalism.
The FOIA author’s club
Phil Eil shares a collection of FOIA-fueled nonfiction books.
www.muckrock.com
March 19, 2025 at 5:44 PM
For Sunshine Week, journalist Philip Eli walks us through a collection of FOIA-fueled nonfiction books, including on topics like organized crime in New York, the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and FBI crackdowns on college-campus radicalism.
Reposted by Tom Nash
Every year during Sunshine Week, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, MuckRock and AAN Publishers team up to publish The Foilies.
Here are this year’s “winners.”
Here are this year’s “winners.”
The Foilies 2025
Here are this year's "winners." While they may not all pay up, at least we can make sure they get the negative publicity they're owed.
www.muckrock.com
March 17, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Every year during Sunshine Week, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, MuckRock and AAN Publishers team up to publish The Foilies.
Here are this year’s “winners.”
Here are this year’s “winners.”
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MuckRock sits down with The Invisible Institute’s Jamie Kalven to discuss the landmark public records win in Kalven v. City of Chicago (2014). www.muckrock.com/news/archive...
Requester’s Voice: The Invisible Institute’s Jamie Kalven
In this conversation, we discuss Kalven’s landmark public records win in Kalven v. City of Chicago (2014), how AI can be used to analyze data received through FOIA and hopes for the future of the…
www.muckrock.com
March 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
MuckRock sits down with The Invisible Institute’s Jamie Kalven to discuss the landmark public records win in Kalven v. City of Chicago (2014). www.muckrock.com/news/archive...
Reposted by Tom Nash
The Virginia Court of Appeals found that “the names of law enforcement personnel are not exempted” from public records requests made under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act, reports Luca Powell for the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
'Secret police' case tossed by Virginia Court of Appeals
A three-judge panel said that public records law has clear instructions maintaining public access to personnel records, including the names of law enforcement officers.
richmond.com
March 5, 2025 at 10:38 PM
The Virginia Court of Appeals found that “the names of law enforcement personnel are not exempted” from public records requests made under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act, reports Luca Powell for the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Reposted by Tom Nash
VCOG All Access News, 2/26/25: #FOIA win at the Court of Appeals; 2x2 meetings; transparent appointment process
opengovva.org/transparency...
opengovva.org/transparency...
Transparency News, 2/26/25 – Virginia Coalition for Open Government
opengovva.org
February 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
VCOG All Access News, 2/26/25: #FOIA win at the Court of Appeals; 2x2 meetings; transparent appointment process
opengovva.org/transparency...
opengovva.org/transparency...
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“Under these provisions we find that the County may not refuse to produce the names of law enforcement officials,” the judges wrote. “We reject the trial court’s broad interpretation of this VFOIA exemption and reverse its decision.”
'Secret police' case tossed by Virginia Court of Appeals
A three-judge panel said that public records law has clear instructions maintaining public access to personnel records, including the names of law enforcement officers.
richmond.com
February 26, 2025 at 1:03 PM
“Under these provisions we find that the County may not refuse to produce the names of law enforcement officials,” the judges wrote. “We reject the trial court’s broad interpretation of this VFOIA exemption and reverse its decision.”
Reposted by Tom Nash
“If you’re talking about an expenditure of funds, there’s no privacy interest in getting government money,” Rhyne said.
City Hall agreed to give former DPU director severance pay, but won’t release details
The city is refusing to release the document that might contain a dollar amount and other details.
www.richmonder.org
February 6, 2025 at 6:16 PM
“If you’re talking about an expenditure of funds, there’s no privacy interest in getting government money,” Rhyne said.
Reposted by Tom Nash
With govt data disappearing, critical information is at risk.
Reporters: learn how to file strong #FOIA requests from @muckrock.com & Sunlight's expert strategies & access the records you need www.sunlightresearch.net/toolkit/tip-...
☀️ For more investigative tools & tips, follow us! #journalism
Reporters: learn how to file strong #FOIA requests from @muckrock.com & Sunlight's expert strategies & access the records you need www.sunlightresearch.net/toolkit/tip-...
☀️ For more investigative tools & tips, follow us! #journalism
Sunlight Research
www.sunlightresearch.net
February 4, 2025 at 7:30 PM
With govt data disappearing, critical information is at risk.
Reporters: learn how to file strong #FOIA requests from @muckrock.com & Sunlight's expert strategies & access the records you need www.sunlightresearch.net/toolkit/tip-...
☀️ For more investigative tools & tips, follow us! #journalism
Reporters: learn how to file strong #FOIA requests from @muckrock.com & Sunlight's expert strategies & access the records you need www.sunlightresearch.net/toolkit/tip-...
☀️ For more investigative tools & tips, follow us! #journalism
Reposted by Tom Nash
1) I sent FOIA requests to VCU and UVA.
2) This denies medically-necessary transition-related care (for kids *and* young adults) as defined by § 38.2-3449.1 of the Code of Virginia.
3) The self-described party of freedom, liberty, small government and parental rights disregarded their own identity.
2) This denies medically-necessary transition-related care (for kids *and* young adults) as defined by § 38.2-3449.1 of the Code of Virginia.
3) The self-described party of freedom, liberty, small government and parental rights disregarded their own identity.
January 30, 2025 at 11:56 PM
1) I sent FOIA requests to VCU and UVA.
2) This denies medically-necessary transition-related care (for kids *and* young adults) as defined by § 38.2-3449.1 of the Code of Virginia.
3) The self-described party of freedom, liberty, small government and parental rights disregarded their own identity.
2) This denies medically-necessary transition-related care (for kids *and* young adults) as defined by § 38.2-3449.1 of the Code of Virginia.
3) The self-described party of freedom, liberty, small government and parental rights disregarded their own identity.