The Brechner Center
for Freedom of Information

“Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.” — Woodrow Wilson

The Joseph L. Brechner Center for Freedom of Information is an incubator for ideas and initiatives that give the public timely and affordable access to the information necessary for informed, participatory citizenship. The Brechner Center works to educate journalists, policymakers and the general public about the way the law of access works today and how it should work tomorrow. The Brechner Center is a source of research, expertise and advocacy about the law of gathering and disseminating news across all platforms and technologies.