The official blog of SPJ's Freedom of Information Committee. Updated regularly. Latest entries:

– Oklahoma State University wins SPJ’s National Black Hole Award
– North Carolina paper Cherokee Scout withdraws request for gun records, grovels for forgiveness
– University of Wyoming will make presidential finalists public, despite new law
– Utah city makes ‘confidential’ settlement in Taser death suit
– Utah Legislature relents, releases redistricting documents
– Utah to permit television cameras in court.
– Utah Transit Authority backs off attempt to make writing about records denial criminal
– HB477 didn’t hurt too many Utah politicians’ careers
– Student Press Law Center wants students to help it “break” FERPA
– FBI fined for withholding documents

– Walla Walla: FOI on Friday
– Boise: From Zero to Full Speed in Four Days
– AAA in Idaho Falls
– From Newport News….
– A Great Event in Richmond!
– From the First Stop….
– From the Road…
– Some Pics From the Road….
– The Southeastern FOI Road Trip is Under Way!
– It has begun! Tour hits Midwest, Southwest

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