The Second Annual Foilies are here - submit your strangest public records experience

The Second Annual Foilies are here - submit your strangest public records experience

The EFF and MuckRock want to hear your FOIA horror stories

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Edited by Michael Morisy

Everyone in the world of public records has at least one experience that’s straight out of Kafka - maybe the agency gave an estimated completion date of next century, or the “responsive documents” turned out to be a couple hundred blank pages.

In that spirit of commiseration, MuckRock is proud to announce that we’re partnering again with EFF for the second-annual “Foilies” Awards.

Winners from last year included the DEA’s $1.4 million fee estimate and Brad Heath’s infamous “FBI retirement party” photoset.

Send nominations to foilies@eff.org with “FOILIES 2015 NOMINATION” in the subject line before February 15th.


Image via Brad Heath