The Federal Aviation Administration is the sole gatekeeper for government agencies to operate drones in domestic airspace. But FAA lawyers and FOIA officers have repeatedly resisted releasing even basic documents around drone regulation.

The FBI released its file on Toshi Seeger, the environmental activist, film maker, and wife of American folk legend Pete Seeger. It appears as if that last detail was the Bureau’s primary concern.

CBP has finally released documents surrounding the crash of one of its Predator drones in the ocean off San Diego in January. Notably, CBP has redacted the precise mission its unmanned surveillance vehicle was conducting before it crashed.

Three state-level agencies in New Jersey have now refused to disclose their logs of public records requests received in 2013. MuckRock is continuing to press for release of these routine records.

In the wake of the September 11 attacks, DHS reshuffled several of the law enforcement bodies put under its purview into one elite unit: Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). Not only do HSI agents have “the authority to investigate any federal crime,” but “HSI is the only law enforcement investigative agency that has border search authority, full access to [Bank Secrecy Act] reports, and exclusive access to trade data.”

What’s in a name? Potentially, quite a lot of trouble, particularly in the 1940s when the Red Scare was at its height. This is the story of two men, both named Irving Adler, which were investigated by the FBI, and how MuckRock accidentally got its hands on their files.

Laura Rótolo is a lawyer and advocate at the Massachusetts chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. For this week’s Requester’s Voice, we caught up with Rótolo to discuss the ACLUM’s lawsuit against the FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office over records related to the Massachusetts Joint Terrorism Task Force and the Boston Marathon bombing.

After the Reagan administration barred journalists from covering the invasions of Grenada in 1983, a panel conjured the idea of using a Department of Defense sanctioned press corps to cover military activity. They actually gave it a shot during “Operation: Just Cause” in Panama, but quickly ran into the interference of then-Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, whose excessive concern over secrecy came at the expense of crucial coverage.

In conjunction with the announcement today of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize winners, MuckRock is launching a project to recreate, expand upon and check back in on past Pulitzer winners in the investigative reporting category using public records requests.

Runa A. Sandvik is a privacy and security researcher, working at the intersection of technology, law and policy. She is a Staff Technologist at the Center for Democracy & Technology in Washington, D.C., a Forbes contributor, and a technical advisor to both the Freedom of the Press Foundation and the TrueCrypt Audit project. Prior to joining CDT, she worked with The Tor Project for four years.

The government agency tasked with maintaining the database of the millions of men eligible for the military draft can’t access the logs of its few dozen FOIA requests.

It appears some Air Force brass wish their subordinates would fly a little farther under the radar, especially when airing their office’s dirty laundry.

In the midst of controversy over the potential release of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report on the CIA’s “enhanced interrogation” torture program, last month the CIA quietly released a newly declassified version of the infamous 1963 “KUBARK” interrogation manual.

Todd Wallack is an investigative reporter for the Boston Globe. For this week’s Requester’s Voice, Wallack talks about his own strategies for submitting requests for data, prospects for FOIA reform and infatuation with privacy.

Documents continue to flow in regarding the FBI’s use of unmanned aerial vehicles. Your generous support has ensured MuckRock can foot the transparency bill.

A number of government agencies insist that MuckRock reporters do not qualify as journalists. It turns out we’re in good company — the Air Force FOIA office list of “commercial requesters” includes not only patent lawyers and political operatives, but also reporters from newspapers, magazines and television networks across the country.