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Katherine Revello

@foiakatherine.bsky.social

Award-winning journalist and writer focused on public records, public access, and #1A issues. FOIA phile. FOI consultant. Also, professional comms. New Englander. Lover of the dark and strange.

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Katherine Revello@foiakatherine.bsky.social · last mo.

Today, many portions of Connecticut's ALPR 'reform' law go into effect - among them a provision exempting ALPR data from FOIA. With it, a pending FOIC complaint I had seeking ALPR data is now effectively dead. The police department involved successfully ran the clock out.

Katherine Revello@foiakatherine.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It's been over a year since CSCU officials said during an FOIC hearing (related to an FOI request Inside Investigator filed seeking docs on sexual misconduct investigations) that they were working on a new FOIA handbook for staff.

Katherine Revello@foiakatherine.bsky.social · 4mo ago

In January, Hartford PD told me (in response to a FOIA request) that they don't have a contract with Flock Safety. I just got almost 2,000 pages of documents in response to a FOIA request for communication between Hartford PD and Flock.

Katherine Revello@foiakatherine.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Question for other folks who have filed FOIA requests for ALPR audit logs: have you run into unreasonable fee requests? I have one PD trying to charge me $1,000+ in per page copying fees and another trying to charge $30 for a flash drive because they refuse to turn over records via email.

Katherine Revello@foiakatherine.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Whether it's pages from previous administrations that have been taken down or datasets that politicians have scrubbed, the Internet Archive is a crucial open access tool for journalists. Publishers who are undermining it are undermining the future success of their newsrooms.

WIRED@wired.com · 7mo ago

As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages. www.wired.com/story/the-in...

Katherine Revello@foiakatherine.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I'm quoted in this piece talking about quorum requirements (which trigger open meeting protections) and why they're crucial to public oversight. This is a great writeup about a concerning issue unfolding in Ansonia: valley.newhavenindependent.org/2026/03/30/a...

Are Ansonia’s Budget ‘Workshops’ Transparent? - Valley Independent Sentinel

ANSONIA – Mayor Frank Tyszka’s administration is following a budget process that raises questions about transparency. At issue – the city’s Board of Apportionment and Taxation (or tax board) has been ...

valley.newhavenindependent.org

Freedom of the Press Foundation@freedom.press · 8mo ago

The Supreme Court's refusal to intervene here is an absolute travesty for press freedom rights.

Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The Supreme Court refuses to review an odious 5th Circuit decision granting qualified immunity to Texas officials who arrested a citizens-journalist in retaliation against her posing questions to public officials. Sotomayor has an appropriately furious dissent: www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, dissenting from the denial of certiorari. Petitioner Priscilla Villarreal is a reporter who was arrested for doing something journalists do every day: posing questions to a public official. Specifically, Villarreal twice texted with a police officer to corroborate information Villarreal already knew about events that had occurred within her community. That officer voluntarily provided the information Villarreal sought, and Villarreal published those facts, consistent with her role as a journalist. Six months later, Villarreal was arrested for asking those questions. Making matters worse, Villarreal alleges that the arrest followed a months-long effort by a police department and district attorney’s office to retaliate against her because they disliked much of her reporting on their activities. Of course, that reporting was often critical of them. It should be obvious that this arrest violated the First Amendment. Yet the Fifth Circuit held that the officials were entitled to qualified immunity, and now Villarreal is left without a remedy. The Court today makes a grave error by declining to hear this case.