The Center for Media and Democracy is pleased to announce that its General Counsel and Senior Policy Advisor, Arn Pearson, has been selected to be CMD’s new Executive Director.
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CMD’s Mary Bottari Wins Sidney Award for Tracing Billionaires’ Plot to Kill Unions
Mary Bottari wins March Sidney for “Behind Janus: Documents Reveal Decade-Long Plot to Kill Public Sector Unions,” published by In These Times.
SPIKE IN PRIVATE EQUITY POLITICAL SPENDING SPARES LOOPHOLE IN GOP TAX PLAN
New research by CMD shows private equity political spending soared to almost $100 million in 2016 election cycle.
The Poison Papers Expose Decades of Collusion between Industry and Regulators over Hazardous Pesticides and Other Chemicals
The Bioscience Resource Project and the Center for Media and Democracy today are releasing a trove of rediscovered and newly digitized chemical industry and regulatory agency documents stretching back to the 1920s. The documents are available at PoisonPapers.org.
Watchdog Group Sues Utah AG for Withholding RAGA Documents
AG Reyes refuses to release records relating to his dealings with the Republican Attorneys General Association’s corporate cash-for-influence operation.
More Than 100 Groups Call on Secretaries of State to Protect Voter Rights by Rejecting Pence-Kobach Request for Sensitive Voter Data
CMD signed on to a letter along with 100 groups including The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights condemning Pence and Kobach’s request for American citizens’ personal information.
OKLAHOMA AG RELEASES 7,564 PAGES IN RESPONSE TO CMD REQUEST
Under court order, Oklahoma Attorney General’s office releases previously withheld emails and holds back others; more emails expected on February 27.
COURT ORDERS SCOTT PRUITT TO RELEASE EMAILS
Today, the Oklahoma County Court found Scott Pruitt in violation of the state’s Open Records Act lawsuit against Scott Pruitt for improperly withholding responsive public records and ordered his office to release thousands of emails in a matter of days.
SCOTT PRUITT WITHHOLDS THOUSANDS OF EMAILS LIKELY CONCEALING TIES TO FOSSIL FUEL CORPORATIONS
Scott Pruitt has provided just 411 of at least 3,000 documents related to an open record request submitted by Center for Media and Democracy in 2015
Lawsuit Filed Against Trump Nominee Scott Pruitt for Polluter Emails
CMD alleges Pruitt violated OK open records law, failed to release 3,000 emails for over two years and asks court to block destruction of emails.