FOIA imposes two requirements on requests for agency records. Requests must: Reasonably describe the desired records. Be made in compliance with agency rules and regulations for making FOIA requests. ...

The ongoing controversy surrounding Grand Blanc Township Fire Chief Jamie Jent including his administrative leave and ...

If you want to know how much money the city of Chicago spends on holiday parade security in a given year, you can file an open records request with the city for the details. If you want to know how a ...

A blank copy of Saginaw County's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request form. Though many public bodies have specific forms for citizens to use to request records, Michigan law merely requires a ...

Dear Chairman Chaffetz and Ranking Member Cummings, The US Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is a critical instrument to ensure accountable government and make effective the American people’s right to ...

A local investigative reporter and podcaster wanted to dig deeper into the recent controversy involving the Grand Blanc ...

The ACLU filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the Department of Justice in July 2012 seeking the release of two memos providing guidance to federal prosecutors and investigators for using ...

LANSING, Mich. — The Michigan Department of Attorney General has reached a settlement agreement with Progress Michigan on a lawsuit involving a Freedom of Information Act request received by the ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Michigan’s primary elections, taking place today, may offer few competitive races. But one of them has offered a look at an ...

When the LSJ contacted me to write a viewpoint on how we use the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) as lawyers, I thought to myself, “God, not one more obligation that I have to do for free...” I have ...