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- EIN 81-4985446
- info@reclaimtherecords.org
- 905 Ventura Way Mill Valley CA 94941 USA
- https://www.reclaimtherecords.org/
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Arts & Culture, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Historical Organizations, Historical Societies & Historic Preservation
Mission: We’re Reclaim The Records, a new not-for-profit activist group of genealogists, historians, researchers, and open government advocates. We identify important genealogical records sets that ought to be in the public domain but which are being wrongly restricted by government archives, libraries, and agencies. We file Freedom of Information and Open Data requests to get that public data released back to the public. And if the government doesn’t comply, we take them to court. Then we digitize everything we win and put it all online for free, without any paywalls or usage restrictions, so that it can never be locked up again.
Results: Since 2015, we've filed and won settlements in three Freedom of Information lawsuits against government agencies. We've acquired, digitized, and released more than 25 million historical records back to the public domain, all completely free.
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