Locations
Albany, NY, USA · Mill Valley, CA, USA
industry
Non-Profit Organization Management
Size
1 - 10 employees
founded in
2015
We want our records back -- and we get them! We’re Reclaim the Records, a new not-for-profit activist group of genealogists, historians, researchers, and open government advocates. We identify important record sets and databases that ought to be in the public domain but which are being wrongly restricted by government archives, libraries, and agencies. Then we use Freedom of Information laws and open data requests to get that public data released back to the public. And if the government doesn’t comply, we take them to court. Since 2015, we've launched nine FOI lawsuits against various city, state, and federal government agencies, winning ground-breaking cases around the country. We've also won numerous major public records requests that didn't need to go to litigation. Then we digitize everything we win and put it all online for free, without any paywalls or usage restrictions, so that our country's history can never be locked up again.
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