Monthly Archives: July 2015

The Brennan Center for Justice has just sued the New York State Board of Elections, asking a state court to rule that the Board must close the “LLC Loophole,” which allows huge amounts of untraceable political donations to be funneled through LLCs. The Board of Elections opened the loophole in 1996 when it ruled that LLCs are […]

Federal agencies are starting to use the Freedom of Information Act to increase access to public records by putting each response to a FOIA request online. Currently, the E-FOIA amendments of 1996 require agencies to put records online which have been the subject of repeated (read: three) requests. The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press notes: […]