Missouri Sunshine Law Request Yields $1.5 Million Tab, Then $5,000, Then Outright Refusal

Back in February, a nonprofit group called Reclaim the Records filed requests for Missouri birth and death listings from 1910 through 2015.

The California-based outfit describes itself as a “group of genealogists, historians, researchers, and open government advocates who are filing Freedom of Information requests to get public data released back into the public domain.”

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Reclaim the Records: WE WON! The New York City marriage index 1930-1995 will be free and open data!

Reclaim The Records has done it again. We are proud to announce that our Freedom of Information lawsuit in the Supreme Court of New York, fighting for the right to a first-ever public copy of the New York City marriage index, has been successful!

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