California public records at the data desk at the Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times has started a public records desk, where they are soliciting contributions of public records from their readers. If you have done a California FOIA request, you can share your document dump with the LA Times. This is part of the LA Times "Data desk" operation.

California public records (LA Times, March 14, 2011)

Since the pub­lic cor­rup­tion scan­dal broke last sum­mer in the city of Bell, hun­dreds of readers have voiced con­cerns to The Times about po­ten­tial prob­lems at the gov­ern­ment agen­cies in their com­munit­ies. The Times en­cour­ages read­ers to share gov­ern­ment re­cords you con­sider news­worthy or in­ter­est­ing. Send us doc­u­ments and a Times staffer will re­view them and post them to this site, which also in­cludes files ob­tained by our re­port­ers.

No one has yet dubbed this Calileaks; oh, I guess I have. They are using DocumentCloud as their back end.

A simlar, though not identical project, is the Ann Arbor Area Government Documents Repository.

Edward Vielmetti writes the FOIA Coordinator weblog. He previously wrote the FOIA Friday column at AnnArbor.com. Reach him in Ann Arbor, MI at edward.vielmetti@gmail.com.