3 14 22 11 20 AM Recognizing the year's worst in government transparency • MuckRock Sign Up Newsletter Want the latest investigative and FOIA news email address Subscribe March 14 2022 Share Recognizing the year’s worst in government transparency TAGS The Foilies 2022 Log In foilies hall of shame awards Written by Michael Morisy Dave Maass Beryl Lipton Matthew Guariglia Aaron Edited by Michael Morisy Dave Mackey Derek Kravitz Dillon Bergin Betsy Ladyzhets Mukund Rathi Maass Shawn Musgrave electronic frontier foundation foilies 2022 The Foilies were compiled by the Electronic Frontier Foundation Director of Investigations Dave Maass Senior Staff Attorney Aaron Mackey Frank Stanton Fellow Mukund Rathi Investigative Researcher Beryl Lipton Policy Analyst Matthew Guariglia and MuckRock Co-Founder Michael Morisy Senior Reporting Fellows Betsy Ladyzhets and Dillon Bergin and Investigations Editor Derek Kravitz with further review and editing by Shawn Musgrave Illustrations are by EFF Designer Caitlyn Crites The Foilies are published in partnership with the Association of Alternative Newsmedia Each year during Sunshine Week March 13-19 The Foilies serve up tongue-in-cheek “awards” for government agencies and assorted institutions that stand in the way of access to information The Electronic Frontier Foundation and MuckRock combine forces to collect horror stories about Freedom of Information Act FOIA and state-level public records requests from journalists and transparency advocates across the United States and beyond Our goal is to identify the most surreal document redactions the most aggravating copy fees the most outrageous retaliation attempts and all the other ridicule-worthy attacks on the public’s right to know And every year since 2015 as we’re about to crown these dubious winners something new comes to light that makes us consider stopping the presses As we were writing up this year’s faux awards news broke that officials from the National Archives and Records Administration had to lug away boxes upon boxes of Trump administration records from Mar-a-Lago President Trump’s private resort At best it was an inappropriate move at worst a potential violation of laws governing the retention of presidential records and the handling of classified materials And while Politico had reported that when Trump was still in the White House he liked to tear up documents we also just learned from journalist Maggie Haberman’s new book that staff claimed to find toilets clogged up with paper scraps which were potentially torn-up government records Trump has dismissed the allegations of course This was all too deliciously ironic considering how much Trump had raged about his opponent and 2016 Foilies winner Hillary Clinton’s practice of storing State Department communications on a private server Is storing potentially classified correspondence on a personal email system any worse than hoarding top secret documents at a golf club Is “acid washing” records as Trump accused Clinton any less farcical than flushing them down the John https www muckrock com news archives 2022 mar 14 recognizing-the-years-worst-in-government-transpar 1 12 3 14 22 11 20 AM Recognizing the year's worst in government transparency • MuckRock Ultimately we decided not to give Trump his seventh Foilie Technically he isn’t eligible his presidential records won’t be subject to FOIA until he’s been out of office for five years releasing classified records could take years or decades if ever Instead we’re sticking with our original 16 winners from federal agencies to small town police departments to a couple of corporations who Sign Up Log In are all shameworthy in their own rights and at least metaphorically have no problem tossing government transparency in the crapper The C R E A M Crap Redactions Everywhere Around Me Award - U S Marshals The Operation Slug Speed Award - U S Food and Drug Administration These 10-day Deadlines Go To 11 Award - Assorted Massachusetts Agencies The Return to Sender Award - Virginia Del Paul Krizek The Spying on Requestors Award - FBI The Futile Secrecy Award - Concord Police Department The Highest Fee Estimate Award - Pasco County Sheriff’s Office The Rip Van Winkle Award - FBI The FOIA Gaslighter of the Year Award— Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry The Redacting Information That’s Already Public Award - Humboldt-area Law Enforcement The Clear Bully Award - Clearview AI Whose Car is it Anyway Award - Waymo #WNTDWPREA The What Not to Do With Public Records Ever Award - Anchorage Police Department Do As I Say Not As I Do Award - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton The Transparency Penalty Flag Award - Big 10 Conference The Remedial Education Award - Fairfax County Public Schools The C R E A M Crap Redactions Everywhere Around Me Award - U S Marshals Courtesy Jason Leopold BuzzFeed News The Wu‐Tang Clan ain’t nothing to F’ with…unless the F stands for FOIA Back in 2015 Wu-Tang Clan produced Once Upon a Time in Shaolin but they only produced one copy and sold it to the highest bidder pharma-bro Martin Shkreli who was later convicted of securities fraud When the U S Marshals seized Shkreli’s copy of the record under asset forfeiture rules the Twitterverse debated whether you could use FOIA to obtain the super secretive album Unfortunately FOIA does not work that way However BuzzFeed News reporter Jason Leopold was able to use the law to obtain documents about the album when it was auctioned off through the asset forfeiture process For example he got photos of the album the bill of sale and the purchase agreement But the Marshals redacted the pictures of the CDs the song titles and the lyric book citing FOIA’s trade secrets exemption Worst of all they also refused to divulge the purchase price–even though we’re talking about public money And so here we are bringing da motherfoia-ing ruckus The New York Times would later reveal that PleasrDAO a collective that collects digital NFT art paid $4 million for the record https www muckrock com news archives 2022 mar 14 recognizing-the-years-worst-in-government-transpar 2 12 3 14 22 11 20 AM Recognizing the year's worst in government transparency • MuckRock Wu-Tang’s original terms for selling the album reportedly contained a clause that required the buyer to return all rights in the event that Bill Murray successfully pulled off a heist of the record We can only daydream about how the Marshals would’ve responded if Dr Peter Venkman himself refiled Leopold’s request Sign Up Log In The Operation Slug Speed Award - U S Food and Drug Administration The federal government’s lightning fast by bureaucratic standards timeline to authorize Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine lived up to its Operation Warp Speed name But the Food and Drug Administration gave anything but the same treatment to a FOIA request seeking data about that authorization process 55 years - that’s how long the FDA responding to a lawsuit by doctors and health scientists said it would take to process and release the data it used to authorize the vaccine And yet the FDA needed only months to review the data the first time and confirm that the vaccine was safe for the public The estimate was all the more galling because the requesters want to use the documents to help persuade skeptics that the vaccine is safe and effective a time-sensitive goal as we head into the third year of the pandemic Thankfully the court hearing the FOIA suit nixed the FDA’s snail’s pace plan to review just 500 pages of documents a month In February the court ordered the FDA to review 10 000 pages for the next few months and ultimately between 50 000-80 000 through the rest of the year These 10-day Deadlines Go To 11 Award - Assorted Massachusetts Agencies Most records requesters know that despite nearly every transparency law imposing response deadlines they often are violated more than they are met Yet Massachusetts officials’ timewarping violations of the state’s 10-business-day deadline take this public records’ reality to absurd new levels DigBoston’s Maya Shaffer detailed how officials are giving themselves at least one extra business day to respond to requests while still claiming to meet the law’s deadline In a mind-numbing exchange an official said that the agency considers any request sent after 5 p m to have technically been received on the next business day And because the law doesn’t require agencies to respond until 10 business days after they’ve received the request this has in effect given the agency two extra days to respond So if a request is sent after 5 p m on a Monday the agency counts Tuesday as the day it received the request meaning the 10-day clock doesn’t start until Wednesday The theory is reminiscent of the This Is Spinal Tap scene in which guitarist Nigel Tufnel shows off https www muckrock com news archives 2022 mar 14 recognizing-the-years-worst-in-government-transpar 3 12 3 14 22 11 20 AM Recognizing the year's worst in government transparency • MuckRock The theory is reminiscent of the This Is Spinal Tap scene in which guitarist Nigel Tufnel shows off the band’s “special” amplifiers that go “one louder” to 11 rather than maxing out at 10 like every other amp When asked why Spinal Tap doesn’t just make the level 10 on its amps louder Tufnel stares blankly before repeating “these go to eleven ” Sign Up Log In Although the absurdity of Tufnel’s response is comedic gold Massachusetts officials’ attempt to make their 10-day deadline go to 11 is contemptuous and also likely violates laws of the state and those of space and time The Return to Sender Award - Virginia Del Paul Krizek There are lawmakers who find problems in transparency laws and advocate for improving the public’s right to know Then there’s Virginia lawmaker Paul Krizek Krizek introduced a bill earlier this year that would require all public records requests to be sent via certified mail saying that he “saw a problem that needed fixing ” according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch The supposed problem A records request emailed to Krizek got caught in his spam filter and he was nervous that he missed the response deadline That never happened the requester sent another email that Krizek saw and he responded in time Anyone else might view that as a public records and technology success story the ability to email requests and quickly follow up on them proves that the law works Not Krizek He decided that his personal spam filter hiccup should require every requester in Virginia to venture to a post office and pay at least $3 75 to make their request Transparency advocates quickly panned the bill and a legislative committee voted in late January to strike it from the docket Hopefully the bill stays dead and Krizek starts working on legislation that will actually help requesters in Virginia The Spying on Requestors Award - FBI If government surveillance of ordinary people is chilling spying on the public watchdogs of that very same surveillance is downright hostile Between 1989 and at least 2004 the FBI kept regular tabs on the National Security Archive a domestic nonprofit organization that investigates and archives information on you guessed it national security operations The Cato Institute obtained records showing that the FBI used electronic and physical surveillance possibly including wiretaps and “mail covers ” meaning the U S Postal Service recorded the information on the outside of envelopes sent to or from the Archive In a secret 1989 cable then-FBI Director William Sessions specifically called out the Archive’s “tenacity” in using FOIA Sessions specifically fretted over former Department of Justice Attorney Quinan J Shea and former Washington Post reporter Scott Armstrong’s leading roles at the Archive as both were major transparency advocates Of course these records that Cato got through its own FOIA request were themselves heavily redacted And this comes after the FBI withheld information about these records from the Archive when it requested them back in 2006 Which makes you wonder how do we watchdog the spy who is secretly spying on the watchdog The Futile Secrecy Award - Concord Police Department When reporters from the Concord Monitor in 2019 noticed a vague $5 100 line item in the Concord Police Department’s proposed budget for “covert secret communications ” they did what any good watchdog would do–they started asking questions What was the technology Who was the vendor And they filed public records requests under New Hampshire’s Right to Know Law In response CPD provided a license agreement and a privacy policy but the documents were so redacted the reporters still couldn’t tell what the tech was and what company was receiving tax dollars for it Police claimed releasing the information would put investigations and people’s lives at risk With the help of the ACLU of New Hampshire the Monitor sued but Concord fought it for two years all the way to the New Hampshire Supreme Court The police were allowed to brief the trial court behind closed doors without the ACLU lawyers present and ultimately the state supreme court ruled most of the information would remain secret But when The Monitor reached out to EFF for comment EFF took another look at the redacted documents In under three minutes our researchers were able to use a simple Google search to match the redacted privacy https www muckrock com news archives 2022 mar 14 recognizing-the-years-worst-in-government-transpar 4 12 3 14 22 11 20 AM Recognizing the year's worst in government transparency • MuckRock policy to Callyo a Motorola Solutions product that facilitates confidential phone communications Sign Up Log In Hundreds of agencies nationwide have in fact included the company’s name in their public spending ledgers according to the procurement research tool GovSpend The City of Seattle even issued a public privacy impact assessment regarding its police department’s use of the technology which noted that “Without appropriate safeguards this raises significant privacy concerns ” Armed with this new information the Monitor called Concord Police Chief Brad Osgood to confirm what we learned He doubled-down “I’m not going to tell you whether that’s the product ” The Highest Fee Estimate Award - Pasco County Sheriff’s Office In September 2020 the Tampa Bay Times revealed in a multi-part series that the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office was using a program called “Intelligence-led Policing” ILP This program took into consideration a bunch of data gathered from various local government agencies including school records to determine if a person was likely to commit a crime in the future—and then deputies would randomly drop by their house regularly to harass them Out of suspicion that the sheriff’s office might be leasing the formula for this program to other departments EFF filed a public records request asking for any contact mentioning the ILP program in emails specifically sent to and from other police departments The sheriff responded with an unexpectedly high-cost estimate for producing the records Claiming there was no way at all to clarify or narrow the broad request they projected that it would take 82 738 hours to review the 4 964 278 responsive emails—generating a cost of $1 158 million for the public records requester the equivalent of a 3 000-square seaside home with its own private dock in New Port Richey The Rip Van Winkle Award - FBI https www muckrock com news archives 2022 mar 14 recognizing-the-years-worst-in-government-transpar 5 12 3 14 22 11 20 AM Recognizing the year's worst in government transparency • MuckRock Sign Up Log In Last year Bruce Alpert received records from a 12-year-old FOIA request he filed as a reporter for the Times-Picayune in New Orleans Back when he filed the request the corruption case of U S Rep William Jefferson D-New Orleans was still hot — despite the $90 000 in cash found in Jefferson’s cold freezer In 2009 Alpert requested documents from the FBI on the sensational investigation of Jefferson which began in 2005 In the summer of that year FBI agents searched Jefferson’s Washington home and according to a story published at the time discovered foilwrapped stacks of cash “ between boxes of Boca burgers and Pillsbury pie crust in his Capitol Hill townhouse ” Jefferson was indicted on 16 federal counts including bribery racketeering conspiracy and money laundering leading back to a multimillion-dollar telecommunications deal with high-ranking officials in Nigeria Ghana and Cameroon By the time Alpert got the 83 pages he requested on the FBI’s investigation into Jefferson Alpert himself was retired and Jefferson had been released from prison Still the documents did reveal a new fact about the day of the freezer raid another raid was planned for that same day but at Jefferson’s congressional office This raid was called off after an FBI official unnamed in the documents warned that while the raid was technically constitutional it could have “dire” consequences if it appeared to threaten the independence of Congress In a staff editorial about the extreme delay The Advocate which acquired the Times-Picayune in 2019 quoted Anna Diakun a staff attorney with the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University “The Freedom of Information Act is broken ” We suppose it’s better late than never but never late is even better The FOIA Gaslighter of the Year Award— Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry In another case involving the Times-Picayune the FOIA gaslighter of the year award goes to Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry for suing reporter Andrea Gallo after she requested documents related to the investigation into and seeming lack of action on sexual harrasment complaints in Landry’s office A few days later following public criticism Landry then tweeted that the lawsuit was not actually a lawsuit against Gallo per se but legal action “simply asking the Court to check our decision” on rejecting her records request Gallo filed the original request for complaints against Pat Magee a top aide to Landry after hearing rumblings that Magee had been placed on administrative leave The first response to Gallo’s request was that Magee was under investigation and the office couldn’t fulfill the request until that investigation had concluded A month later Gallo called the office to ask for Magee and was patched through to his secretary who said that Magee had just stepped out for lunch but would be back shortly Knowing that Magee was back in the office and the investigation likely concluded Gallo started pushing harder for the records Then late on a Friday when Gallo was on deadline for another story she received an email from the AG’s office about a lawsuit naming her as the defendant A month later a Baton Rouge judge ruled in favor of Gallo and ordered Landry to release the https www muckrock com news archives 2022 mar 14 recognizing-the-years-worst-in-government-transpar 6 12 3 14 22 11 20 AM Recognizing the year's worst in government transparency • MuckRock A month later a Baton Rouge judge ruled in favor of Gallo and ordered Landry to release the records on Magee Shortly after Gallo received those documents another former employee of the AG’s office filed a complaint against Magee resulting in his resignation Sign Up Log In The Redacting Information That’s Already Public Award - Humboldt-area Law Enforcement Across the country police departments are notorious for withholding information from the public Some agencies take months to release body camera footage after a shooting death or might withhold databases of officer misconduct California’s state legislature pushed back against this trend in 2018 with a new law that specifically puts officer use-of-force incidents and other acts of dishonesty under the purview of the California Public Records Act But even after this law was passed one northern California sheriff was hesitant to release information to journalists – so hesitant that it redacted information that had already been made public After a local paper the North Coast Journal filed a request with the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office under the 2018 law the sheriff took two full years to provide the requested records Why the long delay One possible reason the agency went to the trouble of redacting information from old press releases – releases that by definition were already public For example the sheriff’s office redacted the name of a suspect who allegedly shot a sheriff’s deputy and was arrested for attempting to kill a police officer in May 2014–including blacking out the name from a press release the agency had already released that included the suspect’s name And it’s not like the press had accidentally missed the name the first time reporter Thadeus Greenson had published the release in the North Coast Journal right after it came out That isn’t Greenson’s only example of law enforcement redacting already public information in response to another public records request the Eureka Police Department included a series of news clippings including one of Greenson’s own articles again with names redacted The Clear Bully Award - Clearview AI Clearview AI is the “company that might end privacy as we know ” claimed The New York Times’s front page when it publicly exposed the small company in January 2020 Clearview had built a face recognition app on a database of more than three billion personal images and the tech startup had quietly found customers in police departments around the country Soon after the initial reports the legality of Clearview’s app and its collection of images was taken to court EFF has filed friend-of-the-court briefs in support of those privacy lawsuits Clearview’s existence was initially revealed via public records requests filed by Open the Government and MuckRock In September 2021 as it faced still-ongoing litigation in Illinois Clearview made an unusual and worrying move against transparency and journalism it served subpoenas on OTG its researcher Freddy Martinez and Chicago-based Lucy Parsons Labs none of which are involved in the lawsuit The subpoenas requested internal communications with journalists about Clearview and its leaders and any information that had been discovered via records requests about the company Government accountability advocates saw it as retaliation against the researchers and journalists who exposed Clearview The subpoena also was a chilling threat to journalists and others looking to lawfully use public records to learn about public partnerships with private entities What’s more in this situation all that had been uncovered had already been made public online more than a year earlier Fortunately following reporting by Politico Clearview citing “further reflection about the scope of the subpoenas” and a “strong view of freedom of the press ” decided to withdraw the subpoenas We guess you could say the face recognition company recognized their error and did an about face Whose Car is it Anyway Award - Waymo https www muckrock com news archives 2022 mar 14 recognizing-the-years-worst-in-government-transpar 7 12 3 14 22 11 20 AM Recognizing the year's worst in government transparency • MuckRock Sign Up Log In Are those new self-driving cars you see on the road safe Do you and your fellow pedestrians and drivers have the right to know about their previous accidents and how they handle tight turns and steep hills on the road Waymo owned by Google parent Alphabet Inc and operator of an autonomous taxi fleet in San Francisco answers respectively none of your business and no A California trial court ruled in late February that Waymo gets to keep this information secret Waymo sued the California Department of Motor Vehicles to stop it from releasing unredacted records requested by an anonymous person under the California Public Records Act The records include Waymo’s application to put its self-driving cars on the road and answers to the DMV’s follow-up questions The DMV outsourced the redactions to Waymo and claiming that it needed to protect its trade secrets Waymo sent the records back with black bars over most of its answers and even many of the DMV’s questions Waymo doesn’t want the public to know which streets its cars operate on how the cars safely park when picking up and dropping off passengers and when the cars require trained human drivers to intervene Waymo even redacted which of its two models — a Jaguar and a Chrysler — will be deployed on California streets … even though someone on those streets can see that for themselves #WNTDWPREA The What Not to Do With Public Records Ever Award Anchorage Police Department “What Not to Do Wednesday ” a social media series from the Anchorage Police Department had been an attempt to provide lighthearted lessons for avoiding arrest The weekly shaming session regularly featured seemingly real situations requiring a police response Last February though the agency became its own cautionary tale when one particularly controversial post prompted community criticism and records requests which APD declined to fulfill As described in a preValentine’s Day #WNTDW post officers responded to a call about a physical altercation between two “lovebirds ” The post claimed APD officers told the two to “be nice” and go on their way but instead the situation escalated “we ended up in one big pile on the ground ” and one person was https www muckrock com news archives 2022 mar 14 recognizing-the-years-worst-in-government-transpar 8 12 3 14 22 11 20 AM p Recognizing the year's worst in government transparency • MuckRock gp g p ultimately arrested and charged Sign Up Log In Some in the public found the post dismissive toward what could have been a domestic violence event — particularly notable because then-Police Chief Justin Doll had pointed to domestic violence as a contributor to the current homicide rates which had otherwise been declining Alaska’s News Source soon requested the name of the referenced arrested individual and was denied APD claimed that it does not release additional information related to “What Not To Do Wednesday” posts A subsequent request was met with a $6400 fee FWIW materials related to WNTDW is not a valid exemption under Alaska’s public records law By the end of February 2021 the APD decided to do away with the series “I think if you have an engagement strategy that ultimately creates more concern than it does benefit then it’s no longer useful ” Chief Doll later said It’s not clear if APD is also applying this logic to its records process Do As I Say Not As I Do Award - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Texas law requires a unique detour to deny or redact responsive records directing agencies to go through the Attorney General for permission to leave anything out It’s bad news for transparency if that office circumvents proper protocol when handling its own records requests it’s even worse if those records involve a government official—current Texas AG Ken Paxton —and activities targeted at overthrowing the democratic process On January 6 2021 Paxton who is currently up for reelection facing multiple charges for securities fraud and was reportedly the subject of a 2020 FBI investigation and his wife were in Washington D C to speak at a rally in support of former President Donald Trump which was followed by the infamous invasion of the Capitol by Trump supporters Curious about Paxton’s part in that historic event a coalition of Texas newspapers submitted a request under the state’s public records law for the text messages and emails Paxton sent that day in D C Paxton’s office declined to release the records It may not have even looked for them The newspapers found that the AG doesn’t seem to have its own policy for searching for responsive documents on personal devices which would certainly be subject to public records law even if the device is privately-owned The Travis County District Attorney subsequently determined that Paxton’s office had indeed violated the Texas open records law Paxton maintains that no wrongdoing occurred and as of late February hadn’t responded to a letter sent by the DA threatening a lawsuit if the situation is remedied ASAP “When the public official responsible for enforcing public records laws violates those laws himself ” Bill Aleshire an Austin lawyer told the Austin American-Statesman “it puts a dagger in the heart of transparency at every level in Texas ” The Transparency Penalty Flag Award - Big 10 Conference In the face of increasing public interest administrators at the Big 10 sporting universities tried to take a page out of the ol’ college playbook last year and run some serious interference on the public records process In an apparent attempt to “hide the ball” that is their records on when football would be coming back university leaders suggested to one another that they communicate via a portal used across universities Reporters and fans saw the move as an attempt to avoid the prying eyes of avid football fans and others who wanted to know more about what to expect on the field and in the classroom “I would be delighted to share information but perhaps we can do this through the Big 10 portal which will assure confidentiality ” Wisconsin Chancellor Rebecca Blank shared via email “Just FYI — I am working with Big Ten staff to move the conversation to secure Boardvantage web site we use for league materials ” Mark Schlissel then-President of the University of Michigan wrote his colleagues “Will advise ” Of course the emails discussing the attempted circumvention became public via a records request Officials’ attempt to disguise their secrecy play was even worse than a quarterback forgetting to pretend to hand off the ball in a play-action pass University administrators claimed that the use of the private portal was for ease of communication rather than concerns over public scrutiny We’re still calling a penalty however https www muckrock com news archives 2022 mar 14 recognizing-the-years-worst-in-government-transpar 9 12 3 14 22 11 20 AM Recognizing the year's worst in government transparency • MuckRock The Remedial Education Award - Fairfax County Public Schools Sign Up Log In Once a FOIA is released the First Amendment generally grants broad leeway to the requester to do what they will with the materials It’s the agency’s job to properly review redact and release records in a timely manner But after Callie Oettinger and Debra Tisler dug into a series of student privacy breaches by Fairfax County Public Schools the school decided the quickest way to fix the problem was to hide the evidence Last September the pair received a series of letters from the school system and a high-priced law firm demanding the removal of the documents from the web and they return or destroy the documents The impulse to try to silence the messenger is a common one A few years ago Foilies partner MuckRock was on the receiving end of a similar demand in Seattle While the tactics don’t pass constitutional muster they work well enough to create headaches and uncertainty for requesters that often find themselves thrust into a legal battle they weren’t looking to fight In fact in this case after the duo showed up for the initial hearing a judge ordered a temporary restraining order barring the further publication of documents This was despite the fact that they had actually removed all the personally identifiable data from the versions of the documents they posted Fortunately soon after the prior restraint the requesters received pro bono legal assistance from Timothy Sandefur of the Goldwater Institute and Ketan Bhirud of Troutman Pepper In November — after two months of legal wrangling negative press and legal bills for the school — the court found the school’s arguments “simply not relevant” and “almost frivolous ” as the Goldwater Institute noted Illustrations are by EFF Designer Caitlyn Crites Read past Foilies winners here Related Stories Have an open records horror story Shine a light by nominating an agency for The Foilies 2022 by Michael Morisy December 14 2021 The Foilies 2021 Recognizing the Year’s Worst in Government Transparency by Dave Maass Aaron Mackey Michael Morisy Naomi Gilens Beryl Lipton March 15 2021 This week’s FOIA round-up FOIA finds a foe in AG Barr Illinois schoolchildren punished with isolation and Earthjustice reveals toxic DHS plans for migrants by Joseph Ratliff November 22 2019 Submit your nominations for the 2021 Foilies by Michael Morisy December 18 2020 Newsletter https www muckrock com news archives 2022 mar 14 recognizing-the-years-worst-in-government-transpar 10 12