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$$ Watch / Financial Disclosures / White House

March 22, 2018

Ivanka $$ Watch

Because of various restrictions, Ivanka Trump’s financial disclosures aren’t officially posted online. But most of them can be requested, which is what I’m doing. This page will be updated if and when more become...

calendars / FOIA / White House

August 31, 2017

US Trade Representative: Detailed Scedule, Jan-June 2017

PDF: January 23 – June 30, 2017 As part of my ongoing quest to see what the heads of federal agencies have been doing, who they’ve been meeting with, etc., the latest agency to...

$$ Watch / Financial Disclosures / White House

July 13, 2017

Kushner $$ Watch

Because of various restrictions, Jared Kushner’s financial disclosures aren’t officially posted online. But most of them can be requested, which is what I’m doing. This page will be updated if and when more become...

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American Oversight@weareoversight·

February 26

New: We’re challenging excessive redactions of USPS chief DeJoy’s calendar.

USPS’s shifting arguments for hiding DeJoy’s calendars from FOIA requests threaten to create blanket exemptions for practically any USPS records.
https://t.co/IMRQ6OGk1A

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Dr. Heather Ann Thompson@hthompsn·

February 27

So glad to have been a part of this CBS/BET collaboration Boiling Point and this episode in particular on Attica re criminal INjustice then and now. Join us Sunday at 8pm on BET for this episode and me and Lawrence Bartley Sat at 1pm on BET Instagram Live talking about Attica https://t.co/yCHNq1LXzM

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CJ Griffin @CJGriffinEsq·

February 26

A New Jersey agency tried to argue a few years ago that OPRA could only be used by residents of NJ and a trial court agreed. We appealed and won. Such restrictions are absurd (and also easy to evade). https://t.co/O14jvukwBF

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Russ at AltGov2.org [FOIA / anti-secrecy]@thememoryhole2·

February 26

Among other shitty things, this bill would forbid anyone outside Kentucky from making public-records requests. (Only a handful of states, mostly in the South, have this anti-transparency feature.)

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Lexington Herald-Leader@heraldleader·

February 26

Kentucky House votes to weaken open records law and shield lawmakers from inquiries
https://t.co/llBkm2Hecj

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