FOIA Advisor

FOIA News: Reporter investigating politicization of FOIA

FOIA News (2015-2023)Allan BlutsteinComment

On July 31, 2020, frequent FOIA requester and Buzzfeed reporter Jason Leopold announced on Twitter that he was investigating the politicization of FOIA and, to that that end, he is asking government employees to contact him with tips.

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Fo readers interested in the related issue of “sensitive review,” that is, the practice of giving FOIA requests extra scrutiny, my former colleagues at Cause of Action Institute have been uncovering documentation of that practice since 2013: https://causeofaction.org/sensitive-review/.