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Watchdog groups to launch new FOIA-related site |
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By Susan Crabtree
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Posted: 11/08/07 10:33 PM [ET] |
A coalition of watchdog groups will launch an online document database Thursday that will make results of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests easily searchable, browsed and reviewed.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), the Sunlight Foundation, Public Citizen and the Electronic Frontier Foundation all contributed documents to the site, governmentdocs.org . Their goal was to create a central database of government documents as a way to promote greater transparency into the government’s inner workings.
CREW is perhaps best known for its list of the most corrupt members of Congress, which it put out in January 2006 and revised later that year after several more corruption cases against lawmakers were uncovered.
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