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FOIA Chat
Arizona shooting backlash: Is public information a threat?, January 14, 2011
Back to Basics: FOIA for beginners, December 2, 2011
Boundaries of disclosure, July 20, 2012
Can I FOIA that?, April 16, 2010
Changes to State Open Meeting Laws, June 24, 2011
Databases and Open Government Resources: Skip the FOIA, February 11, 2011
Deliberative process exemption, July 23, 2010
Dept. of Homeland Security, Surveillance and Privacy interview with G.W. Schulz, March 11, 2011
Disaster, relief and records, November 2, 2012
Disciplinary records and ethics violations, January 27, 2012
Do you have a case? Appealing records request denials, October 28, 2011
Elections and records, March 23, 2012
Electronic access to court records, March 26, 2010
Electronic records management and public records, February 17, 2012
Executive orders and privilege in withholding records, June 22, 2012
Executive Sessions, June 10, 2011
Exemptions, exemptions, exemptions!, July 16, 2010
Federal FOIA issues with Erin Siegal and Scott Hodes, March 16, 2012
Fighting redaction, September 28, 2012
FOIA and Technology, July 22, 2011
FOIA and the Courts, February 25, 2011
FOIAchat
FOIAchat 2010
FOIAchat 2012 archive
FOIAchat Legal Disclaimer
FOIA commissions, April 9, 2010
FOIA for beginners: a Q&A with experts, December 7, 2012
FOIAing for texts, tweets and emails, April 30, 2010
FOIA in the News, April 1, 2011
FOIA in the news, August 3, 2012
FOIA in the News, February 4, 2011
FOIA in the news: FOIA lawsuits, April 13, 2012
FOIA in the news: impact of federal FOIA on state laws, February 3, 2012
FOIA in the news, January 11, 2013
FOIA in the news, January 6, 2012
FOIA in the News, January 7, 2011
FOIA in the News, July 8, 2011
FOIA in the news, July 9, 2010
FOIA in the news, June 1, 2012
FOIA in the News, June 3, 2011
FOIA in the news, March 2, 2012
FOIA in the News, March 4, 2011
FOIA in the news, May 4, 2012
FOIA in the News, May 6, 2011
FOIA in the news, May 7, 2010
FOIA in the News, November 4, 2011
FOIA in the News, November 5, 2010
FOIA in the News, October 14, 2011
FOIA in the News, October 15, 2010
FOIA in the news, September 7, 2012
FOIA in the News: The BP Oil Spill, June 4, 2010
FOIA Litigation and the NFOIC Litigation Fund, August 20
FOIA Litigation and the NFOIC Litigation Fund, August 20, 2010
FOIA Privacy exemptions, September 30, 2011
FOIA Response Times, January 28, 2011
FOIA Troubleshooting and Hurdles, July 15, 2011
Gifts for officials, end of year wrap up, encouraging disclosure, December 14, 2012
Gifts for public officials, December 10, 2010
Guest speaker: Scott Hodes from The FOIA blog, September 17, 2010
Guns and FOIA, February 1, 2013
Healthcare and records, June 29, 2012
Healthcare data and public records, January 18, 2013
How do open meeting laws stack up?, October 26, 2012
How to Find Dead Voters, October 29, 2010
How to pay for and proceed on a public records suit, April 20, 2012
How to request classified information, July 27, 2012
How to work with FOIA and electronic data: Earl Glynn interview, August 12, 2011
International diplomacy, terrorism and records, September 14, 2012
Investigating state and federal inefficiencies in administrative agencies, June 8, 2012
Is it Public?, April 15, 2011
Legislative Updates with Charles Davis, May 13, 2011
Legislatures, Records and Open Meetings, June 17, 2011
Medical records and investigating hospitals, February 24, 2012
Metadata as Public Records, February 18, 2011
Monster data sets, November 16, 2012
Negotiating Records Requests, May 20, 2011
Obstacles to open records, February 10, 2012
Open meetings & best practices, May 11, 2012
Open meetings experiences, May 21, 2010
Open meetings issues, August 13, 2010
Open meetings laws, May 14, 2010
Paperless FOIA, April 23, 2010
Personal privacy exemptions, employee records, and what you have a right to, June 11, 2010
Phone records and allowances: how to get them, what they tell you, March 30, 2012
Police and fire department records, August 31, 2012
Police Intervention: Your Rights, January 21, 2011
Police records and video: Radley Balko interview, August 19, 2011
Proposed reforms in Illinois and Texas, electronic records and what constitutes a public record, March 5, 2010
Public records and copyright, April 27, 2012
Public records and personnel data, November 30, 2012
Public records best practices: how to get what you want, June 15, 2012
Quasi-government and FOIA, November 19, 2010
Remembering 9/11, September 9, 2011
Requesting lobbying information, March 9, 2012
Requesting multimedia, voicemail and texts April 8, 2011
School records: What to ask for, how to get it, October 1, 2010
SEC FOIA exemption, and more, July 30, 2010
Social media and public records, January 13, 2012
Sports and public records, May 18, 2012
Structuring a mass FOIA project, October 21, 2011
Student journalism and FOIA, September 16, 2011
Sunshine Week 2010, March 19, 2010
Sunshine Week, March 18, 2011
Taxpayer-funded lobbying, September 10, 2010
Time limits for responses to FOIA requests, March 12, 2010
Tip to Story: Writing Investigative Pieces with Pulitzer Prize winning Ryan Gabrielson, March 25, 2011
Uncovering corruption using public records, August 17, 2012
Universities, professional sports and public records, November 18, 2011
What constitutes an "unwarranted invasion of privacy"? Police information and what you have a right to., June 18, 2010
What do states need to do to protect citizen privacy?, June 25, 2010
When Not to FOIA, August 27
When Not to FOIA, August 27, 2010
Whistle blowers and records, August 10, 2012
Wikileaks and "New" Journalism, April 29, 2011
Wikileaks: Good or Bad?, December 3, 2010

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