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⚖️ Update: And a Useful Tool
Apologies for the delay on the courses. I’ve been a bit busy dealing with the government and that felt like the perfect moment to share this tool with you. You can use it as a citizen aswel as professionally or as a journalist.
Tool: 🦅 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 🇺🇸 / 🧀 Wet open overheid (Woo) 🇳🇱.
When you need answers from authorities, opinions don’t help, only facts and documents do. Like Alonzo said: “It’s not what you know, it’s what you can prove.”
FOIA (🇺🇸) and the Woo (🇳🇱) are legal tools that allow you to request official government documents, such as:
- Internal emails and correspondence
- Policy notes and memos
- Decisions, reports, and contracts
- Timelines showing who knew what, and when
This isn’t hacking.
This isn’t leaking.
This is using the rules of the system.
Why I’m sharing this
If you work with:
- OSINT
- compliance & due diligence
- journalism or research
- legal or policy work
Then the government isn’t just an authority, it’s a data source.
And when courses talk about “open sources”, this is one of the most underused but powerful ones.
Courses are resuming shortly.
In the meantime: consider this a field-tested tool drop.
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