If you are interested in assistance with a request, appeal, or litigation

• Email me at FOIA@caitlinkellyhenry.com PGP Key

Training Video Series

• Making Successful Freedom of Information and Privacy Act Requests: An Overview (available now). Link to video and companion slideshow.
• Making Successful Freedom of Information and Privacy Act Requests to the FBI (forthcoming).
• Making Successful Freedom of Information and Privacy Act Requests to the DOJ (forthcoming).
• Navigating Agency Reposes: Appeals & Litigation (forthcoming).

FOIA Forms

• Find agency specific FOIA forms here https://caitlinkellyhenry.com/foiaforms/

Example of My State Public Records Act Work

• To: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Re: Public Official Names and Contact Information 5.14.15 CDCR PRA Request Letter – Contact Information Response 7/20/15 CDCR Response to Request for Public Official Names and Contact Information 7.20.15 PRA CDCR Contact Information.
• To: California Department of Corrections and RehabilitationInstitution Re: Specific Policies on Legal Calls and Visits 5.14.15 CDCR PRA Request – Visiting and Phone Calls Response posted at caitlinkellyhenry.com/support

Resources on Filing Request & Litigation (not endorsements)

• BSides
  • 8.2.16 BSides Understanding Agency Data Structures to Reverse Engineer FOIA and Privacy Act Requests (zip)
  • 8.2.16 BSides Understanding Agency Data Structures to Reverse Engineer FOIA and Privacy Act Requests (pdf)
•  HOPE
  • Video of Talk at HOPE
  • 7.24.16 HOPE Guide to FOIA & Privacy Act Requests for Eelctronic Data
  • 7.24.16 HOPE FOIA & PRA Hacking – Presenter Notes
• Guides to FOIA/Privacy Act requests and FBI data structures
  • 8.3.15 CKH FOIA and FBI Data Guide
  • 8.3.15 CKH B-sides Presentation of FOIA & FBI Data
•  FOIA
  • American Bar Association FOIA Guide
    https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/immigration/FOIAguide.authcheckdam.pdf
  • Effective FOIA Requesting For Everyone, A National Security Archive Guide, January, 2009 http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/nsa/foia/foia_guide.html
  • Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) FOIA Litigation Manual (2010) https://www.epic.org/bookstore/foia2010/default.html (out of print)
  • Georgetown Library FOIA Guide http://guides.ll.georgetown.edu/c.php?g=320807&p=2146494
  • The FOIA Project http://foiaproject.org/about/data/
  • FOIA Advocates http://foiadvocates.com/intro.html
  • Muck Rock https://www.muckrock.com/foi/list/
  • FOIA Machine https://www.foiamachine.org/ (no endorsement about security/privacy of platform)
  • DEF CON 22, Ryan Shapiro, Hacking the FBI – How & Why to Liberate Government Records https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2eTlyd7r54
  • DEF CON 18, Marcia Hoffman, How to Get Your FBI File (and Other Information You Want From the FBI) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xddQH-HR1-o
  • Freedom of Information Act Litigation Panel, Including Jeffrey Light, Ahilan T. Arulanantham, Mike German, Susan Long, Kel McClanahan, Drew Shenkman, March 2012 http://www.c-span.org/video/?304952-3/freedom-information-act-litigation
• CPRA
  • The First Amendment Project http://www.thefirstamendment.org/publicrecordsact.pdf
  • League of California Cities http://www.cacities.org/Resources/Open-Government/THE-PEOPLE%E2%80%99S-BUSINESS-A-Guide-to-the-California-Pu.aspx