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Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Resources
The Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552
The full text of the Act from the Department of Justice.
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FOIA.gov
This site can help you determine if filing a FOIA request is the best option for you and help you create your request when you’re ready.
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Freedom of Information Act - Department of State
Like all federal agencies, the Department creates and receives records when carrying out its mission. This website provides a wealth of information about the Department’s FOIA program and how to obtain access to the Department’s records, as well as a search tool containing 216,901 searchable documents reviewed and released to the public.
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NARA- Declassified Documents
Most archival records held by National Archives and Records Administratin are available to the public for research and are either unclassified or declassified. This is an excellent place to start your search for declassified government documents.
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National Declassification Center
This site from the National Archives and Records Administration provides information about released documents.
Library Databases
Homeland Security Digital Library
The Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) is the nation's premier collection of documents related to homeland security policy, strategy, and organizational management. The HSDL is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's National Preparedness Directorate, FEMA and the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security.
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Digital National Security Archive - (DNSA)
This resource consists of expertly curated, and meticulously indexed, declassified government documents covering U.S. policy toward critical world events – including their military, intelligence, diplomatic and human rights dimensions – from 1945 to the present.
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Foreign Relations of the United States
from the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections.
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HeinOnline
Contains more than 1,200 law and law-related periodicals. Coverage is from the first issue published for all periodicals and goes through the most-currently published issues allowed based on contracts with publishers. Retrieve articles by citation, browse, or search across nearly 50 million pages of content. HeinOnline also contains many useful resources for criminology, and public and international affairs, such as the Congressional Record Bound volumes in entirety, complete coverage of the U.S.
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ProQuest Congressional
Comprehensive online collection of primary source congressional publications and legislative research materials covering all topics, including government, current events, politics, economics, business, science and technology, international relations, social issues, finance, insurance, and medicine. Finding aid for congressional hearings, committee prints, committee reports and documents from 1970-present, and the daily Congressional Record from 1985-present. Compiled legislative histories from 1969-present.
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National Security Archive at George Washington University
Founded in 1985 by journalists and scholars to check rising government secrecy, the National Security Archive combines a unique range of functions: investigative journalism center, research institute on international affairs, library and archive of declassified U.S. documents ("the world's largest nongovernmental collection" according to the Los Angeles Times), leading non-profit user of the U.S.
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FBI Records -- The Vault
Provides online access to selected FBI files. Particularly useful for researching groups or individuals who may have come under FBI scrutiny.
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Documents Available from the Department of Justice
Many documents are available to the public without having to make a FOIA request. These documents are called "proactive disclosures" because they are automatically posted online by all Department components. Please find links below to all Department of Justice components to access their documents that are available online.
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Declassified Documents - Library of Congress
Suggested resources for locating declassified documents.
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