muckrock {muckrock}

muckrock: a data package for the Freedom of Information Act

Description

muckrock is a data package containing metadata associated with US Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) requests, as aggregated and released by the MuckRock project.

Details

the package's contents are:

agency_metadata

Information about agencies that requests have been submitted to.

jurisdiction_metadata

Information about jurisdictions covered by MuckRock's scope.

request_metadata

Metadata associated with the actual FOIA requests.