FOIA Collections
The Freedom of Information Act gives all of us the right to ask the government for documents and have the government respond. As the ACLU, we request, and sometimes sue to obtain information about government activity in order to analyze, publish, and disseminate this information to the press and public.
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State Agency Public Records About ID.me
We are publishing documents obtained through public records requests from agencies in Florida and Oregon using ID.me to verify identity for unemployment benefits. Documents are being published on a rolling basis.
Date Created:Feb 1, 2022
Contains:837 Documents
Privacy & Technology
+2 Issues
ALPR FOIA
Automated License Plate Readers FOIA Documents
Date Created:Jul 21, 2015
Contains:719 Documents
Privacy & Technology
+2 Issues
NSA Documents
The ACLU long suspected that the NSA has gone far beyond its counterterrorism and foreign intelligence mandate, implementing a massive system to conduct bulk surveillance of millions of innocent Americans.
Date Created:Dec 2, 2014
Contains:1617 Documents
Florida Foreclosure Records
The ACLU and the ACLU of Florida filed public records requests with judicial officials in Florida to determine whether homeowners are having their constitutional rights violated during foreclosure proceedings.
Date Created:Dec 2, 2014
Contains:195 Documents
National Security
+5 Issues
Mapping the FBI
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is collecting racial and ethnic information and “mapping” American communities around the country based on crude stereotypes about which groups commit different types of crimes.
Date Created:Dec 2, 2014
Contains:4830 Documents
Arizona AG Money Transfer Surveillance FOIA Database
This page compiles documents received from the Arizona Attorney General related to the money-transfer database, also known as the Transaction Records Analysis Center (TRAC).
Date Created:Dec 22, 2022
Contains:224 Documents
Boston Asylum Office FOIA Production
These documents reveal practices and procedures at USCIS’s Boston Asylum Office, the result of a successful FOIA lawsuit brought by the ACLU of Maine.
Date Created:Apr 29, 2022
Contains:60 Documents
ICE Detention Activities in Maine
Documents from ICE and from the Cumberland County Jail detailing detention practices and the creation of a new detention facility in Scarborough, Maine.
Date Created:Apr 29, 2022
Contains:37 Documents
Kenosha Law Enforcement FOIA Database
This database compiles documents retrieved in the wake of protests and a fatal shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin on Aug. 25, 2020.
Date Created:Dec 20, 2021
Contains:440 Documents
National Security
DOD Lethal Strikes FOIA Collection
Date Created:May 1, 2021
Contains:1 Document