Although the staff of FOIA Advisor is focused on reporting new FOIA developments, we occasionally make the news ourselves in connection with our other FOIA (and non-FOIA) activities. Below is a list of our appearances in the news media during the first quarter of calendar year 2023.

• Ryan Mulvey & Kevin Schmidt, “Federal officials keep using personal emails for government duties,” NY Post, Mar. 18, 2023, Op-ed.

• Sara Fischer, “Government struggles with record FOIA boom,” Axios, Media Trends, Mar. 14, 2023 (quoting Allan Blutstein).

• Kevin Schmidt & Thomas Kimbrell, “Covid Exposed the Damage Done by Certificate-of-Need Rules,” Wall St. J., Feb. 24, 2022, Op-ed.

• Chris Brennan, “Top GOP researcher probing mayoral race,” Philadelphia Inquirer, Feb. 17, 2023 (discussing Allan Blutstein’s public records requests).

• Kevin Bogardus, “EPA shutters public records portal,” Greenwire, Feb. 13, 2023 (quoting Allan Blutstein) (full article here).

  Kevin Bogardus, “EPA eyes FOIA tweaks to boost environmental justice,” Greenwire, Jan. 20, 2023 (quoting Allan Blutstein) (full article here).