Judicial FOIA Expansion Act
Current understanding
To be populated as evidence accumulates.
Evidence log
- 2024-07-23 — Judicial FOIA Expansion Act: The Judicial FOIA Expansion Act would extend FOIA disclosure requirements to the federal judiciary and judicial administrative records, but remains introduced and referred to committee, with no change to current access rights. (novelty: 2)
- 2025-12-17 — Shadow Docket Sunlight Act of 2025: cross-connection with shadow-docket-sunlight-act: Parallel judicial-branch transparency reforms: shadow-docket disclosure and FOIA extension to the courts. (novelty: 3)
- 2026-07-20 — Judicial FOIA Expansion Act: S5033 / HR9778 introduced in the 119th Congress to extend Freedom of Information Act coverage to the judicial branch, which is currently exempt from FOIA’s disclosure obligations. (novelty: 3)