New website allows review of FOIA-obtained government documents

On November 8th, CREW, in conjunction with a coalition of government watchdog groups, launched a new online government document database, governmentdocs.org.  The online database will house Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) responses, and other government documents, from a number of organizations, that can be browsed, searched and reviewed. It is the only one of its kind.  Joining CREW in this project are the Project on Government Oversight, Public Citizen, Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Sunlight Foundation.   Traditionally, government watchdog groups have either posted FOIA documents on their websites as unsearchable PDFs, or statically highlighted several pages within a document to bolster their findings. Governmentdocs.org changes that by providing a database of searchable documents and a unique URL for every page of every document. As it is a coalition effort, users will be able to search documents from all the organizations on the site at the same time.

Start viewing documents now at governmentdocs.org.