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.

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.

Phil Eil shares a collection of FOIA-fueled nonfiction books.

To celebrate Sunshine Week and one year of FOIAFridays, I want to share five things I’ve learned through a year of conversations.

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.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation looks back at the games governments played to avoid transparency.

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.

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.

Reporters at the San Francisco Public Press preserved more than 80 historical documents from the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory.

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.

Since the start of the new Trump administration, hundreds of federal data sets and government websites have gone offline without warning, sometimes returning with major changes and sometimes not returning at all. On February. 13, meet the groups fighting to keep the information online.

Multiple organizations are fighting to preserve access to government data and websites that have been removed after President Donald Trump took office.

Using personal financial disclosure records, two reporters revealed a candidate’s conflicting history.

MuckRock readers told us where to request documents about police misconduct. You can follow along.

The new DocumentCloud is live, featuring a faster, more consistent, and modernized user interface optimized for accessibility and performance. Alongside this, MuckRock is proud to launch version 2 of our MuckRock, offering improved authentication, efficiency, and speed. To support these updates, the new python-squarelet Python library simplifies token management and authentication for both APIs. Additionally, an IPFS/Filecoin Batch Uploader Add-On allows users to upload large document sets more reliably and efficiently.

We requested contracts and audits of AI pilot programs to be used in FOIA departments of agencies like the CIA and the State Department.