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![This week's FOIA round-up: Lack of transparency in the Trump administration, Washington's big open gov win, and animal extinction in Florida](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2019/12/20/NY_AG.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
This week’s FOIA round-up: Lack of transparency in the Trump administration, Washington’s big open gov win, and animal extinction in Florida
Our weekly collection of the biggest stories from FOIA
![This week's FOIA round-up: FOIA finds a foe in AG Barr, Illinois schoolchildren punished with isolation, and Earthjustice reveals toxic DHS plans for migrants](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2019/11/22/Trump_Barr_handshake.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
This week’s FOIA round-up: FOIA finds a foe in AG Barr, Illinois schoolchildren punished with isolation, and Earthjustice reveals toxic DHS plans for migrants
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![Help crowdfund the release of wage theft investigations in Massachusetts](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2019/07/18/AGcov.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
Help crowdfund the release of wage theft investigations in Massachusetts
To understand how the Massachusetts government is dealing with wage theft, MuckRock requested files on the Attorney General’s investigations into four companies that have allegedly stolen wages from their workers. The AGO estimated that the processing and reproduction fees for these files will be $200 - so we’re opening the request to crowdfund.
![Alabama reaches new milestone in barriers to access](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2019/03/28/ALcov.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
Alabama reaches new milestone in barriers to access
From backlogs at the federal level to legal limitations at state and local, requesters are no strangers to the barriers met in access to information. But every now and then, an agency will make a demand so brazen or just plain bizarre that it’ll bring even the jaded #FOIA community to pause.
![California AG demands journalists to destroy information obtained through public records - or else](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2019/02/28/CAAgCov.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
California AG demands journalists to destroy information obtained through public records - or else
California’s top law official is threatening legal action against a pair of journalist who obtained a list of police officers convicted of crimes within the last decade.
3 Requests
No Responsive Documents
1304-1 W. Waveland, Chicago Illinois
E. Coady sent this request to the Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance of the United States of America
No Responsive Documents
1304-1 W. Waveland, Chicago Illinois
E. Coady sent this request to the Department of Justice, Office of Information Policy of the United States of America
Rejected
IRS Silk Road investigation (cont.)
William Green sent this request to the Internal Revenue Service of the United States of America