Last week @reveal won 2-1 in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals a case against the Department of Justice to get access to gun data from the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms @ATFHQ . Below is more about the case... There are 4 reasons why this opinion is interesting for FOIA nerds and those who care about transparency of government data. I'll take them one by one!

Today @reveal filed a brief in a case - against the U.S. Dep't of Treasury(FinCEN) - arguing FinCEN wrongly withheld records which disclose names of people that hold property in the United States through LLCs. Let me take you through the case! documentcloud.org/documents/7224… A trend has emerged where individuals buy residential property through shell companies, like LLCs, so they are unidentifiable & can money launder (e.g. in '91 biz entities owned 3% of US property, today its 16% (quintupling their share) & they own 40% of rental property mkt!)

I'm working on a case, where Reveal is suing the Dept. of Labor (DOL) to obtain workplace injury reports about Amazon workers - and the government has characterized Reveal's newsgathering as exploiting "back doors." (1/9) As background: DOL's OSHA Regulations require Amazon to submit the reports to ensure worker health and safety. Also OSHA's 2016 regulations obligated the agency to publish the reports online. See 2016 Final Rule @ 29,648; 81 Fed. Red. 29,632 (2/9)