A federal lawsuit filed in November against the Department of Defense and Air Force claims the military’s vaccine mandate violated both the First Amendment and religious freedoms. The sitting congresswoman and her husband seek an unspecified amount in damages.

A fee is charged for about 16% of U.S. public-records requests, according to a MuckRock analysis of our data. The rising costs of records limits government accountability at the state-level but requestors have found ways to lower costs.

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DocumentCloud gets a new and improved GPT 3.5 Turbo Add-On; MuckRock and Accounts get more concise 403 pages; a new DocumentCloud Python library is released and community members release two new MuckRock tools.

Cicero Town Board President Larry Dominick, in publicly-recorded comments at the end of a biweekly town meeting on Dec. 12, said the Cicero Independiente‘s staffers routinely don’t stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and, as a result, “from now on, I don’t think I’ll let anyone there talk that does not stand for the pledge.”

At the American Geophysical Union conference this week, MuckRock and The California Newsroom presented findings and methodology from the “Smoked Screened” investigation.

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Ever wonder if there’s more (or less) to someone’s story when they are running for office? From national races to local elected office, democracy depends on understanding how qualified candidates are for the role they are seeking, and this free training will offer a range of techniques to background political figures, helping better understand potential conflicts of interest, work histories, assets and more.

La planta de Koppers en Cicero ha infringido leyes medioambientales estatales y federales durante 50 años, desde finales de la década de 1970 hasta el verano pasado. Una nueva lista de infracciones de la EPA de Illinois plantea nuevos interrogantes sobre la cantidad de sustancias químicas cancerígenas que emite la planta.

Provisions that would have compensated those exposed to radioactive waste left over from the Manhattan Project was removed on Wednesday

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The DocumentCloud navigation bar got a redesign, Premium Add-Ons are more prominently displayed, AI credit balances are easier to find, python-documentcloud drops Python 2 support, and Squarelet gives you a notice to contact your admins to approve your request to join an organization.

Want to know when your favorite government agency posts new information? Wondering if a corporate press release might see some post-publication revisions? We’ve brought the power of The Marshall Project’s Klaxon site monitoring tool into DocumentCloud, and it’s now easier than ever to track changes and get alerts from websites you care about.