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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/

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