Sunlight Foundation wins FOIA lawsuit for federal contracts

Published November 21, 2013 5:00am ET



A nonprofit watchdog organization won its Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the General Services Administration on Thursday and has released 13 years of federal contract data on its website.

The Sunlight Foundation filed the suit on Monday seeking the release of federal contract documents that are supposed to be publicly available. For more than five months, the GSA largely ignored Sunlight’s FOIA request without explanation.

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