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What we’re requesting on the removal of government data
MuckRock is requesting documents to get the inside story of the removal of federal government data.
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Federal data is disappearing. On Thursday, meet the teams working to rescue it and learn how you can help.
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.
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The fight to preserve federal government data
Multiple organizations are fighting to preserve access to government data and websites that have been removed after President Donald Trump took office.
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For the Record: The battle to preserve the online archives of now-shuttered newsrooms
Major news organizations have announced the shutdown of prominent websites, including the DCist, Vice and The Messenger with many left wondering who will archive the journalism of hundreds of reporters.
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Come comb through the next batch of the Brett Kavanaugh Files
MuckRock users are continuing to sift through a selection of materials released on the Supreme Court nominee. Here’s some of what we’ve found so far.
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The Brett Kavanaugh files: Help explore documents around the most recent Supreme Court Nomination
Help read through thousands of pages covering Brett Kavanaugh’s time working under special counsel Ken Starr, in the White House Counsel’s Office under President George W. Bush, and more, summarizing and highlight the documents you think are most interesting.
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Getting records from a presidential library can take longer than their term in office
The National Archives and Records Administration’s recent announcement that there will be no Barack Obama Presidential Library was met with understandable outrage from historians and transparency advocates, who saw it as a blow to a functioning democracy. However, as the National Security Archive’s Nate Jones was quick to point out, this discussion needs to be understood in the larger context of NARA’s current failings in the presidential library system, where FOIA requests can take years, even decades.
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Justice Department records confirm PROMIS scandal’s ties to Israel
Justice Department documents recently released by the National Archives confirm what some Inslaw witnesses have been saying for decades: that a copy of PROMIS software was given to Israel.
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National Archives dropped $430k on a faulty license plate scanner
An audit by the Inspector General of the National Archives and Records Administration found that an automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) system installed at its College Park, MD facility parking lot has been plagued with problems. Cited issues range from a $430,000 price tag and faulty design to a worker accessing stored license plate data “for personal reasons.”