Category: News

Written by Clara Bates, Dillon Bergin and edited by Derek Kravitz, Jason Hancock, MuckRock, April 26, 2023 (This story also shows the importance of public records use for accountability and informed public policy discussions). Almost half of all children in Missouri ages 5 and under, or about 202,000 kids, now live in child care deserts, The…

The Accountability Project makes more than 1.8 billion public records easy to search and analyze. by The Center for Public Integrity, March 2, 2023 (This story shows why we need to protect and expand access to and the aggregation of public records and other data sources across jurisdictions and data silos to make sure the public…

Whether it’s your first request or your first request today, it never hurts to go over the basics. MuckRock’s compiled a lot of FOIA advice over the years, and with this project, it’s all in one place. Read more here:  https://www.muckrock.com/project/foia-101-tips-and-tricks-to-make-you-a-transparency-master-234/

From surrealistically redacting art to threatening requesters, this year’s “winners” deserve the spotlight. By Dave Maass, Aaron Mackey, Mukund Rathi, Beryl Lipton, Derek Kravitz, Dillon Bergin, Michael Morisy; Muckrock – The Foilies, March 12, 2023 (The Electronic Frontier Foundation and MuckRock News, in partnership with the Association of Alternative Newsmedia, publishes “The Foilies.”) “It doesn’t do much good to…