Have you ever wondered how open records requests and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests work? (Technically, FOIA law only covers federal executive agencies, but people use the acronym as a blanket term)

Come join us as we gather the community of citizen journalists, muck-rakers, and rabble rousers to talk about what we've learned.

• What even are records requests? What applies to who?
• How to get started (We'll break into small groups all work up simple example requests from an example template)
• Research and data wrangling tips when you get back more than what you expected

This will be a virtual meeting on Zoom, link TBD.