The purpose of the FOIA request and lawsuit is to obtain information for the public about federal agencies' policies of imposing fines and monetary penalties on individuals, specifically immigrants...
The Trump administration was dedicated to closing all avenues for immigration, from blocking asylum-seekers at the border to ending protections for Dreamers to constricting the availability of lawful...
This case involves a corporate trade group's challenge to 40 years of precedent limiting the government's ability to withhold information requested under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). On...
Join Center for Constitutional Rights Senior Legal Worker, Ian Head , and Detention Watch Network Policy Director, Mary Small, at Netroots Nation 2019 Conference for a training on...
Join Senior Staff Attorney Ghita Schwarz for a live briefing with the Practising Law Institute (PLI) on the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Since 1966, the Freedom of Information Act has given the...
...The Center for Constitutional Rights has just launched the Open Records Project: FOIA for the Movement . The project is coordinated by Ian Head, senior legal worker at CCR, co-editor of the...
...Government actors have, it seems, endless reasons to shroud their actions in secrecy; that’s why tools like the Freedom of Information Act and state open records laws are so critical. But it turns...
Website and Activist Guide Focus on Freedom of Information Act for Social Justice Movements May 29, 2019, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights launched the Open Records Project:...
Updated October 2020! The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and other public records laws have long been critical tools at the core of the Center for Constitutional Rights' social justice work in...
