Website posts Freedom of Information documents

Photo of suspended sculptures of lighted words at Centre Pompidou in Paris by Jordana Shalhoub.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation and a coalition of government watchdog groups have launched governmentdocs.org. The site consolidates United States government documents produced by Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests from various organizations. The FOIA requires the federal government to disclose documents detailing its activities, when asked.

FOIA requests seek to hold the government accountable for abuse, corruption and unfulfilled promises to citizens. Governmentdocs.org allows visitors to search a database of documents uncovered by watchdog groups. Registered site users may comment on the documents.

Comments

[JanePoe (aka Deborah)]

Love Jordana's photo. And bravo to the EFF. xx, JP/deb

[marita]

truly nothing surprises me anymore!!

[tinker]

Good for them - what a great idea to gather this information together. Thanks for letting us know about this, Tara~xo

[bella]

Interesting stuff. While I was reading Jane Fonda's autobiograhpy, she went through and discussed the various info she was able to obtain through the FOIA that the government had on her during the Vietnam war. This stuff fascinates me.

[AscenderRisesAbove]

thanks for the heads up... I am going to check it out this very minute

[Delia]

Very interesting...I am going to check your links out--as I said on my blog, Tara, thank you for the gifts and the revisions on what I called them--your handwriting is lovely--and, of course, now that you tell me all of this, I can read it perfectly ;)
Love,
D.

[rochambeau]

At least SOMEONE is taking action!!!

[UL]

Oh this is superb, but how long will it last, I wonder!

[Randal Graves]

I wonder what the over/under is on number of days before the Feds sue the EFF. National security, and all that.