FOIA Site MuckRock Launches New Efforts to Let Users Track Projects and Contribute to Reporting Costs

For the past year, Beryl C.D. Lipton has been investigating the private prison system in the United States. She’s a reporter for MuckRock, a news site that covers government transparency issues and also helps its users access government documents. Lipton has filed about 1,000 Freedom of Information Act requests, and she plans to visit some prisons to continue her reporting.