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"Teams that fulfilled requests for government documents lost their jobs on Tuesday as part of the Trump administration's 10,000-person staff cuts at the Department of Health and Human Services. Their work, mandated by Congress since the 1960s under the Freedom of Information Act or FOIA, gives the public a view of the inner workings of federal health agencies."

npr.org/sections/shots-health-

#healthcare#HHS#FOIA

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#law #CriminalJustice #Virginia #parole #transparency

'Last year, Virginia’s parole board considered more than 2,600 cases, recording decisions day by day. The only way prisoners’ families or lawyers could find out what happened was to go, page by page, through the records. Now, students at UVA’s law school have fixed that— creating a database that will allow for specific searches and big-picture analysis of how the board works.'

wvtf.org/news/2025-04-01/law-s

Students Maya McCollum and Jace Horvath with their professor, Deirdre Enright
WVTF · Law students craft database showing patterns of parole in VirginiaBy Sandy Hausman

Rep. Heather Bauer criticized the meager information provided in state-mandated reports.

“It’s very vague at best. I think we deserve to know what they’re using their money on,” the Columbia Democrat said. “How many people have they helped? What kind of resources and programing are they giving these people? And I’d like to see evidence of what outcomes they have for pregnant women in our state.”

#SouthCarolina #SCPol #CrisisPregnancyCenters #Transparency

scdailygazette.com/2025/03/28/