The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is a federal law that mandates the disclosure of documents and materials generated or held by federal agencies to the public, subject to specified exemptions including issues related to national security.
State or federal laws, also known as government in the sunshine laws, require most meetings of regulatory bodies to be held in public and most of their decisions and records to be disclosed.
A controversial international nonprofit organization that publishes submissions of private, secret, and classified media sourced from anonymous tips, whistle blowers, and government sources. Launched in 2006, it claimed a database of more than 1.2 million documents within one year.
