Writers Rights and FOI Resources

Links—First Amendment Advocates

• American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression
• American Civil Liberties Union
• American Library Association, Patriot Act project
• Bill of Rights Defense Committee
• Columbia Journalism Review
• Committee to Protect Journalists
• Creative Commons
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
• First Amendment Project
• Freedom Forum
• Free Expression Clearinghouse
• Free Expression Policy Project
• International Federation of Journalists
• Investigative Reporters & Editors
• National Association of Black Journalists
• National Coalition Against Censorship
• National Laywers Guild
• National Press Club, Press Freedom
• Patriotwatch
• Pen American Center
• People for the American Way
• Project for Excellenece in Journalism
• Project Censored
• Public Knowledge
• Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
• And see in particular the RCFP Behind the Homefront blog.
• Reporters Without Borders

Links—FOIA resources

• Citizen's Guide to FOIA, House Committee on Government Operations
• How to use the FOIA, from the Reporters Committee for a Free Press
• Sample letters from the University of Missouri FOI Center
• Selected Federal agency FOIA information, from Public Citizen
• State-by-state FOI statues

Links—FOIA Organizations

• American Society of Access Professionals
• Center for Public Integrity
• FreedomInfo.org
• National Freedom of Information Coalition
• Syracuse University's National FOI listserv
• University of Missouri FOI Center
• National Security Archive
• Federation of American Scientists, Proj. on Gov't Secrecy
• Public Citizen Litigation Group
• Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse

Links—Miscellaneous

• Ashcroft's memorandum about FOIA
• Senator Leahy's response to Ashcroft
• The Information Security Oversight Office's (ISOO) 2001 Report to the President
• The proposed Patriot Act II, severely curtailing civil liberties
• OMB Watch's list of deleted government websites
• The American Bar Association on 9-11

Links—Regional, California

• California First Amendment Coalition
• Californians Aware
• CalFOI listserv, email: calfoi-list@lists.berkeley.edu to subscribe