As Congress discusses FOIA, POGO highlights existing issues impacting the law and suggests ways to improve the system for requesters and promote greater access to information.
The Freedom of Information Act system is extremely broken for both agencies and requesters. Congress can better reinforce and promote government accountability with commonsense legislative reforms.
Intelligence community whistleblowers face hurdles when trying to benefit from the protections meant to help them. Congress can better protect these whistleblowers by implementing commonsense reforms.
Whistleblowers from the Department of Veterans Affairs deserve more support from the office designed to protect and help them. Congress should implement these key OAWP reforms for VA whistleblowers.
The public deserves critical transparency into how the executive branch interprets and implements federal law. Congress should require more transparency of opinions from the Office of Legal Counsel.
With almost three million oral argument streams since May 2020, 80 civil society, media, disability rights, and government transparency groups agree: the time has come for the Supreme Court to provide permanent live audio access to oral arguments.
