As Sunshine Week ends, examples of the Trump administration’s attempts to avoid accountability and to prevent government documents from seeing the light of day continue to pile up.
Agency resistance and excessive delays have increasingly undermined FOIA’s ultimate purpose of encouraging greater transparency. Here are three ways it can be strengthened.
American Oversight opened its doors two years ago today to hold the Trump administration accountable. See what we've uncovered through FOIA, litigation, and investigations into corruption in the administration.
American Oversight has filed FOIA requests across the administration to find out more about Trump administration appointees' push to sell U.S. nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia.
American Oversight has uncovered the signed directive from Jeff Sessions instructing a federal prosecutor to carry out Trump’s authoritarian demand to investigate Hillary Clinton.
American Oversight sued to uncover industry influence at USDA, conflicts of interest at the Pentagon, and why HHS removed valuable health information from a website.
American Oversight and the Sunlight Foundation today sued the Department of Health and Human Services to shed light on why the agency removed information about lesbian and bisexual women’s health from an HHS website.
American Oversight is suing the Department of Defense to shed light on whether Acting Secretary Patrick Shanahan’s ties to Boeing have given the company undue influence at the agency.
American Oversight obtained HHS Secretary Alex Azar’s and Deputy Secretary Eric Hargan’s calendars, both of which show a number of meetings with conservative and anti-Affordable Care Act (ACA) groups. See who they've been meeting with.
