The Foilies 2026
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/foilies-2026
#TheFoilies:RecognizingtheWorstinGovernmentTransparency
The Foilies 2026
Established in 2015, The Foilies are an annual project by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and MuckRock to recognize the agencies, officials and contractors that thwart the public's right to know. We give out these tongue-in-cheek "awards" during Sunshine Week (March 15-21), a collective effort by media and advocacy organizations to highlight the importance of open government.
The Foilies 2025
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/foilies-2025
#TheFoilies:RecognizingtheWorstinGovernmentTransparency
The Foilies 2025
Every year during Sunshine Week (March 16-22). the Electronic Frontier Foundation, MuckRock and AAN Publishers team up to publish The Foilies. This annual report—now a decade old—names and shames the most repugnant, absurd, and incompetent responses to public records requests under FOIA and state transparency laws.
Some wild Freedom of Information Act stories, including an arrest, million dollar fees, and a secret guacamole recipe.
https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2025/mar/11/ten-years-of-the-foilies/
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Ten years of the Foilies
The Electronic Frontier Foundation looks back at the games governments played to avoid transparency.
Ten Years of The Foilies
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/ten-years-foilies
#TheFoilies:RecognizingtheWorstinGovernmentTransparency
Ten Years of The Foilies
A look back at the games governments played to avoid transparencyIn the year 2015, we witnessed the launch of OpenAI, a debate over the color of a dress going viral, and a Supreme Court decision that same-sex couples have the right to get married. It was also the year that the Electronic Frontier...
The Foilies 2024
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/foilies-2024
#TheFoilies:RecognizingtheWorstinGovernmentTransparency
The Foilies 2024
For Sunshine Week, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and MuckRock compile the year's worst and most ridiculous responses to public records requests and other attempts to thwart public access to information, including through increasing attempts to gut the laws guaranteeing this access—and we issue these agencies and officials tongue-in-cheek "awards" for their failures.
Smoking heroin doesn't make it any safer
Smoking heroin doesn't make it any safer
EFF awards the Foilies to the government agencies with the worst transparency for 2018
EFF awards the Foilies to the government agencies with the worst transparency for 2018
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