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Freedom of Information / Sunshine Laws
and Computer-Assisted Reporting
[under construction]


Society of Professional Journalists
http://spj.org/contacts/sunshine.htm
http://spj.org/foia/index.htm

Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
http://www.rcfp.org/foiact/
http://www.rcfp.org/foiact/index.html
http://www.rcfp.org/
http://www.rcfp.org/tapping/index.cgi

Student Press Law Center

Student Press Law Center

Other Resources

ACLU
http://www.aclu.org/library/foia.html
http://www.accessreports.com/

University of Missouri Resources
http://web.missouri.edu/~foiwww/

ACCESS
education

http://web.missouri.edu/~foiwww/laws.html
Federal and State FoI Resources

http://web.missouri.edu/~foiwww/citelist.html
Open Records, News Series and Surveys
Missouri Request Letter

 

 

Relevant Missouri State Offices

Missouri Auditor's Survey of Sunshine Law
Missouri Attorney General's Office
http://www.ago.state.mo.us/sunintro.htm
MO Attorney General - Press Releases
Missouri State Auditor's Office - Home Page

Auditor General - State of Illinois (offered as example)

University of Florida Brechner Center for Freedom of Information
http://www.jou.ufl.edu/brechner/index.htm

First Amendment Cyber Tribune (States' FOI Acts)
http://w3.trib.com/FACT/1st.states.FOI.html

Investigative Journalism (with FOI relevance)
http://www.ire.org/
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/jour/subject/investigate.html
http://www.reporter.org/beat/foia.html
http://web.syr.edu/~bcfought/foires.html
http://www.icij.org/home.html

Electronic Privacy Information Center
http://www.epic.org/
http://www.epic.org/open_gov/
http://www.epic.org/open_gov/citizens_guide_97.html (slow loading)

Center for Democracy and Technology
http://www.cdt.org/
http://www.cdt.org/righttoknow/10mostwanted/

University of Iowa Journalism Resources (slow loading)
http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/journalism/
http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/journalism/mediaLaw/index.html

Society of Environmental Journalists
http://www.sej.org/
http://www.sej.org/tipsheet/tslatest.htm

Computer-Assisted Reporting (CAR)
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/jour/subject/car.html
http://www.nicar.org/

The CAR/CARR Links


Selected FED Sites:
http://foia.fbi.gov/
http://www.usdoj.gov/oip/oip.html(DOJ FOI)
http://www.cdc.gov/od/foia/foi.htm
http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/nhtsa/whatsup/foia/index.html
http://www.nfoic.org/
http://w3.one.net/~smadigan/free/text/whousefoia.txt(Clinton 1993 memorandum on FOI)

LAW
http://www.supremecourtus.gov/
http://www.law.cornell.edu/statutes.html

LEXIS-NEXIS
Commercial
http://www.lexis-nexis.com/lncc/
Through Pickler Library (preferred)
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe


Australian FOI Site--but many good links and references
http://www.comlaw.utas.edu.au/law/foi/
http://www.comlaw.utas.edu.au/law/foi/bookmarks/FOI_index.html
 

Other FOI-Relevant:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/
http://www.muckraker.org/
http://www.publicintegrity.org/main.html
EFFweb - The Electronic Frontier Foundation

 

 

The Freedom Forum on Line
http://www.freedomforum.org/first/welcome.asp

http://www.freedomforum.org/press/series/1999/12/privacy.contents.asp