<p>How Many Cars Have Connecticut Towing Companies Sold? The DMV Can’t Tell Us.<br>—</p><p>When reporters set out to quantify the impact of a Connecticut law that allows companies to sell some cars they’ve towed after just 15 days, the DMV said records would cost $47,000; it has revised the estimate but hasn't given us the records.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/connecticut-dmv-towing-public-records?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/connecticut-dmv-towing-public-records?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/con</span><span class="invisible">necticut-dmv-towing-public-records?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/connecticut/" rel="tag">#Connecticut</a> <a href="/tags/towing/" rel="tag">#Towing</a> <a href="/tags/cars/" rel="tag">#Cars</a> <a href="/tags/dmv/" rel="tag">#DMV</a> <a href="/tags/foia/" rel="tag">#FOIA</a> <a href="/tags/research/" rel="tag">#Research</a></p>
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<p>If you need something to celebrate today, the Freedom of Information Act was signed into law <a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a> in 1966.</p><p>"It took [U.S. House of Representatives member John E. Moss] 12 years to get the FOIA through Congress [...] The Moss Committee took it upon itself to reform confidentiality policy and implement punishments for the overuse of classification by officials and departments."</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Information_Act_(United_States)" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Information_Act_(United_States)"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_</span><span class="invisible">of_Information_Act_(United_States)</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/foia/" rel="tag">#foia</a> <a href="/tags/freedomofinformation/" rel="tag">#FreedomOfInformation</a> <a href="/tags/anniversary/" rel="tag">#anniversary</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a></p>
<p>We asked Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for his and his staff’s emails with Elon Musk and Musk’s companies.</p><p>The governor’s office won’t turn them over, saying some contain “intimate and embarrassing” information that is “not of legitimate concern to the public.”<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-governor-greg-abbott-elon-musk-emails-foia?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/texas-governor-greg-abbott-elon-musk-emails-foia?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/tex</span><span class="invisible">as-governor-greg-abbott-elon-musk-emails-foia?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/texas/" rel="tag">#Texas</a> <a href="/tags/elonmusk/" rel="tag">#ElonMusk</a> <a href="/tags/musk/" rel="tag">#Musk</a> <a href="/tags/email/" rel="tag">#Email</a> <a href="/tags/journalism/" rel="tag">#Journalism</a> <a href="/tags/foia/" rel="tag">#FOIA</a> <a href="/tags/gregabbott/" rel="tag">#GregAbbott</a></p>
<p>Did you know that when government officials use ChatGPT, the chat logs are considered public records?</p><p><a href="https://www.knkx.org/government/2025-08-26/washington-city-officials-chatgpt-write-government-documents-artificial-intelligence" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.knkx.org/government/2025-08-26/washington-city-officials-chatgpt-write-government-documents-artificial-intelligence"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.knkx.org/government/2025-0</span><span class="invisible">8-26/washington-city-officials-chatgpt-write-government-documents-artificial-intelligence</span></a></p><p>via <span class="h-card"><a href="https://journa.host/@muckrock" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>muckrock</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/foia/" rel="tag">#FOIA</a> <a href="/tags/chatgpt/" rel="tag">#ChatGPT</a></p>
<p>ProPublica has sued the Department of Education in federal court, accusing it of withholding public records about how it’s enforcing civil rights protections for millions of U.S. students.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/education-department-civil-rights-office-foia-lawsuit?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/education-department-civil-rights-office-foia-lawsuit?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/edu</span><span class="invisible">cation-department-civil-rights-office-foia-lawsuit?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#Education</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a> <a href="/tags/journalism/" rel="tag">#Journalism</a> <a href="/tags/media/" rel="tag">#Media</a> <a href="/tags/foia/" rel="tag">#FOIA</a> <a href="/tags/records/" rel="tag">#Records</a></p>