Department of Labor communications regarding contraception with plaintiffs in lawsuits over the ACA's birth control mandate.

Department of Labor calendars for Wayne Palmer, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, Mine Safety and Health Administration, and former Chief of Staff to the Secretary. Calendar entries span the timeframe of September to November 2017. American Oversight also obtained calendars for Nathan Mehrens, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy.

Department of Labor (DOL) records related to communications with Ballard Partners, a lobbying group run by a Trump fundraiser. These records are from DOL's Office of Assistant Secretary for Policy.

Department of Labor records related to employee spending at Trump-owned properties. Although American Oversight also requested records of ethical guidance, these records contain only receipts and emails from a trip where a DOL employee stayed at a Trump-owned hotel in Miami.

FOIA to DOL seeking communications involving any employee or representative of Ballard Partners (@ballardfl.com), including, but not limited to, Brian Ballard, Sylvester Lukis, Dan McFaul, Rebecca Benn, and Justin Sayfie. Ballard Partners lobbies on behalf of GEO Group, which owns and operates private prisons, immigration-detention centers. American Oversight submits this FOIA to shed light on the nature of their lobbying efforts.

The Department of Labor's Plan Benefits Security Division said that it had no records involving settlements with outside groups who sued over contraception coverage requirements.

Records from the Department of Labor's response to American Oversight's FOIA request for records pertaining to the status of the Department of Labor's Overtime Rule from January 20, 2017 onward and a log off associated FOIA requests.

DOL's second round of agency appointee resume FOIA requests. The production includes a list of political appointees, a list of individual who joined the agency full-time after working as part of a beachhead or transition team, and resumes for all aforementioned individuals.

Following reports that high-level Trump administration officials expressed concern about the “loyalty” of career civil servants at the State Department, and even explored ways to “purge” some of those career employees from their positions. American Oversight submitted this FOIA to determine whether similar conversations occurred at other agencies.

American Oversight sued 18 agencies in order to force the release of resumes for political appointees across the Trump administration. This is the second lawsuit that American Oversight has filed seeking appointee resumes. FOIA requests included in this complaint cover appointees who joined the administration in the time period follow the first sets of resumes we obtained in 2017.