FOIAengine Update
Washington, DC
December 3, 2024
New data added to FOIAengine
Over the past month our research team has been busy tracking down more FOIA logs and getting them into FOIAengine as quickly as possible. In recent weeks, we have added new data from:
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- Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (Interior)
- Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (Interior)
- Centers for Disease Control
- Department of Justice Leadership
- Department of Transportation, Office of the Secretary
- Federal Trade Commission
- Food and Drug Administration
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration
- Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (Labor)
- Office of the United States Trade Representative
- Securities and Exchange Commission
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Data insights
Data experts John Jenkins and Randy Miller, who created FOIAengine, regularly dive deep into the data to break news and identify trends. Their recent work includes:
Last month, federal prosecutors and the SEC filed charges against Guatam Adani, India’s most powerful tycoon and a close ally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It turns out the U.S. government has been pursing Adani and his company, Adani Group, for years, according to an investigation of FOIA logs. Read more.
Reporters have been mining the Federal Trade Commission to uncover bad news about companies and individuals, with a particular focus on Facebook, OpenAI, Taylor Swift and Elon Musk. Read more.
Over the summer, it appeared that the the government was seriously considering legalizing the use of the party drug ecstasy for treatment of PTSD. But then things fell apart. Thanks to FOIAengine, we know why. Read more.
Tips and tricks: Customize your downloads
Did you know you can customize your search results to show the fields most important to you? And then, if you download the results to work offline, your file will include only the fields you selected. For example, you can add Requestor Name to the search results. All you need to do is click the Columns button and then select the fields to add and deselect the ones you don’t need.
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