I mean, it's not like it's without its issues. I currently have something like five ongoing FOIA lawsuits, every one coming from a place of frustrated nonsense.

I mean, it's not like it's without its issues. I currently have something like five ongoing FOIA lawsuits, every one coming from a place of frustrated nonsense. It doesn't work too well at the federal level because it's turned into a weak system filled with layers of legal nonsense for literal years, but some states (like Illinois) are pretty good about making it easy to litigate, and laws that are... surprisingly favorable for requesters. I got to witness a lawyer, who litigated FOIA at the the federal level, read the statute of Illinois FOIA for the first time, and he was jaw-droppingly gobsmacked by how much the law favors requesters.