What can a FOIA requester do before submitting their request to help ensure that it is not denied under the deliberative process privilege? It is often difficult for a requester to know what ...

For example, if you click “Making a FOIA Request,” the page tells you it’s important to consider several things when preparing a FOIA request: any procedural requirements laid out by the statute and ...

The FOIA can be used by more than journalists and lawyers, though. Anyone can file a FOIA request. Here’s how you do just that and what you can—and often can’t— find out from one.

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 ...

I’ve Sent Out 1,018 Open Records Requests, and This Is What I’ve Learned A little honey goes a long way, but it helps to know the law, too.

(For information on drafting a FOIA request on behalf of a state or local government, see Drafting a Federal FOIA Request in the Fall 2022 issue of Practical Law the Journal.) ...

Paul McAdoo, RCFP's Local Legal Initiative attorney for Tennessee, offers some helpful tips for Tennessee journalists trying to access records under FOIA.

For example, it’s helpful for requesters to know that public bodies are not required to create any new records in order to fulfill a request, only to produce records they already have.