Assignments

6,652 volunteers have helped analyze over
90,813 pieces of information across
204 different projects. You can help out by reading below.

Have a lot of documents to go through? Assignments make it easy to split up the work, either privately with people you invite or by asking the public to help out. Learn more in this video and then create an assignment yourself. (Professional or Organization account required).

What's in these police disciplinary files?
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Help us investigate police misconduct by answering a few short questions about documents from around the country.

Part of the Police disciplinary files

Federal data is disappearing. Here's how you can help.
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Christopher Tidmarsh, Rebecca Luttinen and Robert Delaware helped

Public access to government data and websites has been increasingly limited after President Donald Trump took office. MuckRock is looking for the inside story of the removal federal government data, with suggestions from you on FOIA requests about federal data removal.

Part of the The fight to preserve federal data

Police Union Contracts: Requirements for Records and Accountability
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Marcos ValtierraFuerte, Clay Goode, Austin Spillar and 100 others helped

What does the local police union contract provide for benefits, transparency, and accountability? We’d like to help you better understand labor protections afforded local law enforcement.

There are roughly 18,000 police departments in the country, so add as many as you like and please share this Assignment with anyone.

Your name will not be used on any public records requests submitted as a result of your submission. Your name will not be shared with anywhere at all unless you select that you would like it shared publicly.

You can find all requests submitted as part of this Assignment here.

Part of the Police Union Contracts: Requirements for Records and Accountability

What's your FOIA question?
Launched by Beryl Lipton
Mason C. Turner, Julie schaul, amanda jean anderson and 19 others helped

Requesting public records can be an intimidating process to many, even frequent filers. What are the FOI questions you’ve been afraid to ask? What are the nitty-gritty details you haven’t been able to track down?

Wondering whether police records are available in Michigan? Want to know who your contractors are in California?

Let us know. You may see your question featured in a special FOIA 101 feature.

Part of the FOIA 101: Tips and Tricks to Make You a Transparency Master

Your police department's policy on use of force
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MarySara Rojas, Amanda England, Michael Williams and 67 others helped

A policing agency’s use of force is supposed to be governed by its policy. Figure out where your local police department is falling short by looking at the use of force policy. Start by requesting it. Submit your local policing agency or city and state below, and MuckRock will file a request for the applicable use of force policy. Just let us know where we should ask. Find all requests submitted as part of this Assignment on the Use of Force project page.