Michael Morisy didn’t get the answer he was looking for after making a Freedom of Information Act request from the National Security Agency. Hoping to find out more about the NSA’s Utah Data Center, ...

Why do so many FOIA requests get rejected? That’s what Muckrock founder Michael Morisy wants to figure out. Story Continued Below Muckrock is a website that helps people request public records from ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. The team behind Muckrock, a nonprofit that helps users navigate government records laws, launched a project today that aims to ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. MuckRock is an online startup that helps journalists streamline, track, and fulfill their public records requests. Since May ...

Making freedom of information requests can be a daunting task. If it’s not an agency dragging its heels on releasing documents or asking for a fee large enough to buy a compact car, then it’s the ...

In the 2015 fiscal year, the U.S. federal government processed 769,903 Freedom of Information requests. The government fully fulfilled only 22.6 percent of those requests; 44.9 percent of federal FOIA ...

A few days before President Trump’s inauguration, MuckRock opened up a Slack channel to help journalists better cover him and his administration. As of Wednesday, 250 people signed up. Most are ...

CAPITAL: Muckrock lets reporters file FOIA requests and then publishes all documents returned by the requests online, so that future reporters don’t have to refile the same requests, right? MORISY: We ...

( 4:30 pm Thursday, Dec. 15 with denial from FBI director. See below.) There are a couple of new twists in the ongoing Carrier IQ saga. A muckracking blog has linked the cellphone-diagnostics software ...

An enterprising advocate for openness in government has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the FBI for all information the agency uses related to Carrier IQ, the company under fire ...

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