See how the Atlas of Surveillance uses MuckRock’s requests services and DocumentCloud to track law enforcement surveillance across the country.| Muckrock News
New records obtained by the Data Liberation Project show that military slot machine revenue is increasing.| MuckRock
The Missouri Independent, MuckRock and The Associated Press spent months combing through thousands of pages of previously-unreleased government records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act that show radioactive waste was known to pose a threat to people living near Coldwater Creek as early as 1949. But federal officials repeatedly wrote potential risks off as ‘slight,’ ‘minimal’ or ‘low-level.’| MuckRock
MuckRock is a collaborative news site that gives you the tools to hold the government accountable.| MuckRock
Federal employees said they worry about the future of FOIA in the U.S., not only for their sake, but for requesters as well.| Muckrock News
The Data Liberation Project is tracking money meant to repair the damage of the opioid overdose epidemic, and we need more volunteer investigators to join us.| Muckrock News
During INN Days, media organizations came together to talk about what practical issues are holding their newsrooms back—and what tools might actually help.| MuckRock
Disclose, a French investigative newsroom and NGO, wanted to spot major projects impacting the environment before they slipped past public awareness. Relevant documents were scattered across government websites, which were hard to find and even harder to monitor over time. Disclose used DocumentCloud and custom Add-Ons to build a system to collect, analyze and preserve these documents in one place, helping journalists and the public take action while it still matters.| Muckrock News
Journalism relies on public records, but transparency laws are weakening nationwide, with longer response times, high fees and more frequent rejections. Agencies know that few newsrooms can research and push back on denials, and even fewer can litigate. This blocks both critical local accountability reporting and enterprise investigations, leaving the public in the dark.| Muckrock News
The budget megabill passed in Congress last week included U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley’s language extending compensation for radiation-caused cancers to Missouri, New Mexico and six other states.| Muckrock News
Whether they appear in a yellow lined notebook or on white printer paper, government documents are government documents.| Muckrock News
We've asked for documents and communications regarding the discontinuation of the 988 National Suicide and Crisis Lifeline's LGBTQ+ youth and young adult services.| MuckRock
The DocumentCloud WordPress Plugin version 0.6.0 adds a Gutenberg block, new shortcode attributes, and support for query parameters in embeds, while maintaining. The new version is compatible with WordPress versions 5.0 through 6.8.1.| MuckRock
MuckRock requested internal communications regarding the U.S. Trade and Development Agency’s removal of federal reports.| Muckrock News
Over the last few weeks we have worked on the first piece of a larger project to overhaul MuckRock Accounts.| Muckrock News
We’ve received police disciplinary files from prosecutors in Ohio, Florida and Washington. Now, we want your help reviewing the documents.| Muckrock News
After decades when few law enforcement officers in Virginia lost the right to serve in sworn positions, recent reforms have brought dramatic increases in decertifications| MuckRock
MuckRock is a collaborative news site that gives you the tools to hold the government accountable.| MuckRock
As MuckRock and STAT News reported last year, after receiving $1.15 billion in December 2020, the federal government’s RECOVER initiative has moved slowly and devoted the majority of its funding to observational research. Now, several U.S. senators called for better oversight of the National Institutes of Health, pointing to criticism of the largest recipient of federal Long Covid funding so far.| MuckRock
The comments from a senior New York City environment official overseeing its wastewater surveillance program represent a sharp departure from a joint statement made to MuckRock and the Gothamist last month by the city’s health and environment agencies, which called wastewater surveillance a "developing field," stressing a need for further research before it could be used to inform policy action.| MuckRock
Congress provided the NIH with $1.15 billion to help patients in December 2020 — and the agency has now spent most of that funding, according to a detailed new budget breakdown shared with MuckRock and STAT, with the majority going towards observational research rather than clinical trials.| MuckRock
A new investigation from STAT and MuckRock, based on interviews with nearly two dozen government officials, experts, patients, and advocates, and more than 100 pages of internal NIH correspondence, letters, and public documents, shows that the nearly $1.2 billion in taxpayer money for long Covid research has resulted in few tangible results.| MuckRock
Almost two months into the Trans Journalists Association and MuckRock’s partnership to document the impact of anti-trans federal action, we’ve filed 191 requests — more than doubling last month.| Muckrock News
Public data is disappearing—but anyone can help preserve it. Groups like the Data Rescue Project and the Data Liberation Project are racing to preserve public interest datasets and they need all kinds of support.| MuckRock
MuckRock hosted an online discussion digging into how DOGE is hiding its work and what you can do to strengthen truly public oversight over Elon Musk’s effort to reshape government.| Muckrock News
Some of the Pultizers winners and finalists used DocumentCloud to host primary documents that were foundational to their reporting.| Muckrock News
Some federal agencies report using AI to process FOIA requests. We asked for documentation, but they say none exists.| Muckrock News
Join us as we explore the MuckRock API, which enables you to query, file requests, interact with public records and much more.| Muckrock News
MuckRock will be hosting an online discussion digging into how DOGE is hiding its work and what you can do to strengthen truly public oversight over Elon Musk’s effort to reshape government.| Muckrock News
Recently, MuckRock received transition documents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.| Muckrock News
The Trans Journalists Association and MuckRock have partnered to help journalists document and report on the Trump administration’s actions targeting trans communities.| Muckrock News
This MuckRock guide will explore how to use public databases to your advantage when filing environmental FOIA requests.| MuckRock
Requesting emails can be extremely insightful, but also a bit of an exemptions minefield.| MuckRock
In 2004, Dina Cappiello discovered some Houston residents were exposed to cancer-causing toxins at a level 20 times higher than federal guidelines — for toxic waste dumps. “Everybody was like ‘nothing to see here,’ but I was like something doesn’t add up,” Cappiello said. In this guide, we share tips and examples from Cappiello and other reporters of what you can request in your community to understand how dangerous the air is and even pinpoint potential polluters.| MuckRock
In a new story with DataJournalism.com, reporters Dillon Bergin and Betsy Ladyzhets shared how MuckRock collaborates with both experts and other reporters to pursue major data journalism projects.| MuckRock
In the late 1980s, an area of the Jurupa Valley in Riverside, California began a transformation that would turn it from a community of sprawling dairy farms to hub for enormous warehouses. David Danelski, then an investigative reporter for the Riverside-Press Enterprise, unraveled the details through public records on town planning and found one important document missing from projects approved by county officials for more than a decade: the environmental impact statement. Here are his tips o...| MuckRock
Freelance journalist Monica Vaughan was reporting on air pollution in California’s San Joaquin Valley when the words of one mother changed her perspective. “I just scan the stories looking for the sentence about whether or not it's safe to live here. And I can never find that,” Vaughan remembered the woman saying. In a second guide on air pollution, we bring together advice from reporters like Vaughan and examples that might help you uncover unsafe air in your community. From intial com...| MuckRock
In this conversation, we discuss Kalven’s landmark public records win in Kalven v. City of Chicago (2014), how AI can be used to analyze data received through FOIA and hopes for the future of the transparency landscape.| MuckRock
A side-by-side comparison of five OCR tools using multiple kinds of documents from DocumentCloud.| MuckRock
MuckRock hosted its monthly FOIA Friday conversation on the challenges of requesting public records when businesses and nonprofits intervene.| MuckRock
The Illinois EPA has created a Koppers resource website, with documents related to all four Illinois EPA violations, due to “significant public interest” in the facility. And the state attorney general’s office said it received more information from the Illinois EPA related to Koppers’ alleged violations in December, saying in a statement that it is “evaluating the matter.”| MuckRock
In a vault at the National Security Agency lies a historical treasure: two AMPEX 1-inch open reel tapes containing a landmark lecture by Admiral Grace Hopper, a giant in the field of computer science. Yet this invaluable artifact remains inaccessible, trapped in an obsolete format that the NSA will not release, stating that the agency is unable to play it back.| MuckRock
Private companies and the federal government for decades failed to take actions to protect St. Louis residents from nuclear waste, an investigation by The Missouri Independent, MuckRock and The Associated Press finds.| MuckRock
After the Cicero Independiente and MuckRock published investigative articles about air pollution and the chemicals company Koppers, it hired a public-relations firm to organize a secret, behind-the-scenes campaign to influence local officials.| MuckRock