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How Fiquem Sabendo uncovered Bolsonaro’s taxpayer-funded steak dinners, jet ski trips and Carnival celebrations
See how Fiquem Sabendo, a Brazilian transparency nonprofit, used DocumentCloud to reveal how a former president used his corporate card to pay for personal expenses.
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Release Notes
The latest release of DocumentCloud introduces OCR injection, ensuring that OCR’d text from Textract or any Add-Ons is grafted into the underlying PDF.
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Five things I learned from a year of FOIAFridays
To celebrate Sunshine Week and one year of FOIAFridays, I want to share five things I’ve learned through a year of conversations.
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The Foilies 2025
Here are this year’s “winners.” While they may not all pay up, at least we can make sure they get the negative publicity they’re owed.
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Ten years of the Foilies
The Electronic Frontier Foundation looks back at the games governments played to avoid transparency.
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Requester’s Voice: The Invisible Institute’s Jamie Kalven
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.
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Sorting a trove of police disciplinary files to find stories
When you recognize a pattern of where to find information on documents over and over again, DocumentCloud’s Regex Extractor Add-On can help you pull it out and turn it into data. After that, the fun begins.
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How the San Francisco Public Press used DocumentCloud to expose the history of human radiation experiments
Reporters at the San Francisco Public Press preserved more than 80 historical documents from the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory.
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Release Notes: Centralized documentation and a new Python wrapper for the MuckRock API
In these release notes, we’ve consolidated all of our documentation into one central location at help.muckrock.com for easier access. Other key updates include the release of a Python wrapper for the new MuckRock API and an update to the Python wrapper for DocumentCloud.