Additional FOIA Resources

• Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington

  • Measuring Transparency Under the FOIA- CREW/Openthegovernment.org report, Dec 2011

• Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press

  • Federal Open Government Guide
    
  • FOIA letter generator
    Templates for a requester to build a request/appeal letter
    
• Collaboration on Government Secrecy
  A non-partisan educational project devoted to openness in government, freedom of information, government transparency, and the study of "government secrecy" in the United States and internationally
• First Amendment Center
  Serves as a forum for the study and exploration of free-expression issues, including freedom of speech, of the press and of religion, and the rights to assemble and to petition the government
• FOIAdvocates
  Links to State public record laws
  
• FOIA Blog
  A web site for blogging about everything FOIA and government disclosure
• FOI Advocate Blog
  The official blog of the National Freedom of Information Coalition and the FOI Advocate
  
• National Freedom of Information Coalition
  Tracks news, stories that used open records laws, and policy developments
  
• Newspaper Association of America
  Writes periodic updates on FOIA policy developments
• OpenTheGovernment.org
  • Measuring Transparency Under the FOIA- CREW/Openthegovernment.org report, Dec 2011
• The Radio-Television Digital News Association
  Section on FOIA under "Best Practices" addresses current issues
• Sunshine in Government Initiative
  • FOIA Statistics
  • FOIA Annual Reports Analysis
  • FOIA Files
    Searchable collection of over 600 news and other stories that the federal FOIA made possible
• PBS History Detectives
  A brief primer on what to expect when filing a FOIA request.
• Bloggers' Legal Guide to FOIA
  Electronic Frontier Foundation-explains the FOIA, gives tips on how to make a request, gives advice on what to expect when making a request, as well as explains the rights of requesters
• Society of Environmental Journalists
  Policy developments on federal openness and secrecy, including FOIA, as well as access to environmental information.
• Society of Professional Journalists
  Includes a FOI audit toolkit, and other resources
• Archive-It FOIA Collection
  Collection of sites that deal with Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and documents, run by the Internet Archive
• Government Attic
  Provides electronic copies of interesting Federal Government documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act
• Scribd.com
  Collection by FOIA requester groups of hundreds of documents acquired through the FOIA and other public disclosure, or "sunshine," laws
• National Security Archive at George Washington University
  Publishes declassified documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act
• MuckRock
  Provides a service to file FOIA requests and posts released documents with the requests