On Sept. 30, FOIAonline will stop accepting new FOIA applications and begin the process of shutting down. We spoke to the federal government and FOIA experts about alternative options for requestors, including a new federal ‘FOIA Wizard’ in the works.

The DocumentCloud team is pleased to introduce a new way to upload responsive documents from your MuckRock requests directly to DocumentCloud, three powerful new OCR tools and several enhancements to our Python wrapper for the DocumentCloud API. These updates will help you upload documents more efficiently and provide better error tracking.

People from New Mexico, Utah and Missouri, including Just Moms advocates and others from St. Louis who had been harmed by nuclear contamination, gathered at the U.S. Capitol

Need inspiration when coming up with public records ideas? Wish you knew which other requesters were interested in the same agencies, government initiatives or subject matter? Starting today, you have a new tool: MuckRock’s FOIA Log Explorer.

Some requests need more than just expertise to move them along. Our guide to public record legal support should help you connect with the right resource.

This guide is not a comprehensive catalog of all the ways to find legal counsel for all the reasons you might need it. But if you need a lawyer to help you pursue a public records request, we do have a few suggestions:

Join us Sept. 20 for a free transparency training from FOIA Fellow Albert Serna Jr., open to everyone.