National Freedom of Information Coalition

FOI Resources

State and Federal Resources

As part of the NFOIC's continued efforts to support citizen access to government information, the State and Federal Resources pages comprise a comprehensive guide to obtaining information guaranteed under state and federal open meetings and open records laws. These pages contain descriptions and links for FOI publications, contacts, legislation and current events.

White Papers and Reports

Read topical and educational white papers tracking legislative and legal trends, the FOI Reports, to which was recently added to which was recently added a survey by the Better Government Association and NFOIC that tracked states' responsiveness to FOI requests as well as Mediation Without Litigation by Harry Hammitt.

Freedom of Information LISTSERV (FOI-L)

Join the Freedom of Information LISTSERV to discuss access to public records, closure of governmental meetings, trends in legislation, and other issues about the public's access to government records and meetings. This is a mailing list discussion on the Internet, run out of Syracuse University for the NFOIC.

Freedom of Information Center

The Freedom of Information Center is a reference and research library in the Missouri School of Journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

Established in 1958, the FOI Center now has a collection of more than 1 million articles and documents about access to information at the state, federal and local levels, in addition to a wide collection of online documents.