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Gallery Chat: Mark Rumold on The Freedom of Information Act

Gallery Chat for Chasing Justice, on view Nov 19, 2015–Feb 25, 2016 at The Contemporary Jewish Museum.

Mark Romold of the Electronic Frontier Foundation discusses the Freedom of Information Act—its latest triumphs and stumbles, and how it connects to the exhibition Chasing Justice.

Recorded February 5, 2016.

about the speaker
Mark Rumold

Mark Rumold is a staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), focusing primarily on access to information, government secrecy, and national security issues. As part of EFF's Transparency Project, Mark regularly represents EFF in cases under the federal Freedom of Information Act. As a result of his transparency work, tens of thousands of pages of previously secret government documents have been made available to the public.