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TRAC: New Website Tracks FOIA Withholding Challenges

“Details about every new court challenge to the withholding of information by the Obama Administration are now available on a new website developed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC). Designed to bring more transparency to FOIA withholding decisions, the new site — http://FOIAproject.org — gives the American people a way to track all instances in which a federal agency’s decision to deny government records has become the subject of a suit under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) since October 1, 2009. The site, supported with a grant from the CS Fund/Warsh-Mott Legacy, is updated daily with the latest court FOIA filings and provides extensive information about the names of withholding agency, the names of the plaintiffs, the location where the action was brought, along with the actual complaint and attachments that were filed.”

  • Welcome to the FOIA Project. This site’s goal is to bring transparency to the process by which the U.S. government withholds information. Initially, we are featuring documents from FOIA cases against government defendants brought in district court since October 1, 2009, and provide a number of ways of getting at these documents.”
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