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FOIA News: The 2020 "Foilies"

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Submit Your FOIA Horror Stories for The Foilies 2020

By Dave Maass, Electronic Frontier Found., Nov. 15, 2019

Calling all transparency advocates, investigative journalists, and assorted FOIA punks!

It’s once again time to submit your nominations for The Foilies—EFF’s annual, tongue-in-cheek awards for outrageous, ridiculous, and infuriating responses to public records requests. 

Each year during Sunshine Week (March 15-21, 2020), EFF publishes The Foilies to shine light on all the manifold ways that authorities thwart the public’s right to examine government records.

Read more here.