Notices by Freedom of the Press (freedomofpress@social.freedom.press)

It’s the anniversary of JFK’s assassination, and the law that released millions of pages of assassination records is over 30 years old.

It's time for Congress to resume high-level declassification reviews.

https://freedom.press/issues/congress-took-the-lead-on-jfk-declassification-that-should-happen-more-often/

Add San Francisco’s city attorney to the growing list of officials who can’t wrap their heads around the fact that journalists are constitutionally entitled to publish government records, even when the government doesn’t want them to.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/san-francisco-tech-censorship-19932816.php

Report released through FOIA shows how special operations troops really died in a helicopter crash off Cyprus last year. Some survival equipment they wore “did not function as designed.”

A FOIA request shouldn't have been necessary to correct the record.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/11/19/blackhawk-helicopter-crash-cyprus-israel-gaza/

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