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| name = Reclaim The Records | image = Reclaim The Records.jpg | caption = | founder = Brooke Schreier Ganz | type = 501(c)(3) non-profit | tax_id = EIN 81-4985446 | registration_id = | founded_date = Project started {{Start date|2015|01}}, formal incorporation {{Start date|2016|12}}, IRS non-profit status granted {{Start date|2017|02}} | location = Mill Valley, California | coordinates = | origins = | key_people = | area_served = | products = | services = | focus = Freedom of Information, open records, open data, archives, genealogy | mission = | method = | revenue = | endowment = | num_volunteers = | num_employees = | num_members = | subsid = | owner = | motto = | former name = | homepage = {{URL|www.ReclaimTheRecords.org}} | dissolved = | footnotes = }}Reclaim The Records is a non-profit organization and activist group that advocates for greater transparency and accessibility for genealogical, archival, and vital records in the United States. They use state Freedom of Information requests and lawsuits to force government agencies, archives, and libraries to provide copies of previously inaccessible records to the public. Reclaim The Records then digitizes and publishes the records online for free public use, without any copyrights or usage restrictions.[1] Reclaim The Records is the first genealogical organization to successfully sue a government agency for the release of records back to the public. As of December 2017, the organization has acquired and freely published more than twenty million records, most of which had never been open to the public before in any location or format, or else were only available in very outdated formats such as microfiche in limited locations but had never gone online before. HistoryReclaim The Records was founded by Brooke Schreier Ganz, a technologist and long-time amateur genealogist. While living in California, Ganz had become increasingly frustrated by the lack of online access to New York City and New York State archival records. Almost none of the New York records had been put online by their respective city or state government archives or agencies, nor were the records available to search or to view through any genealogy websites, whether for-profit or non-profit. A small subset of the basic vital records index data was available to the public, but only if one was physically onsite in New York records repositories, and only in outdated formats such as microfilm and microfiche. After unsuccessfully attempting to use New York City's open data law, Local Law 11 of 2012, to compel the publication of the basic indices to these records, Ganz decided to use the state's Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) to force the release of copies. She made a FOIL request of the New York City Municipal Archives in January 2015, which was initially agreed to and then denied by the city.[1] This led to an Article 78 lawsuit in the Supreme Court of New York that August. Not wanting to sue the city with just her name on the case, Ganz created Reclaim The Records as an organization so that they could both be listed as Petitioner on the case. The city settled the case five days before they were due in court, and Ganz won the first public copies of the index to New York City marriage licenses for 1908-1929 on 48 rolls of microfilm. This was the first time that an American genealogist had ever successfully sued for the return of genealogical records to the public.[2][3][4][5][6] The case proved that the Municipal Archives' holding were indeed subject to New York's FOIL. In January 2016, Reclaim The Records filed another FOIL request that became another Article 78 lawsuit, this time filed against the New York City Clerk's Office. They too settled with the group, providing 110 reels of microfilm and copies of a digital database they had created for in-house use. The city also paid the organization's attorneys fees. In November 2016, Reclaim The Records filed a third lawsuit under the Missouri Sunshine Law against the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services for access to the basic index to births and deaths in the state. During the course of the lawsuit, it was discovered that the Missouri DHSS had been selling this same data to researchers for years, but was unwilling to provide copies to the public. The case is still pending.[7][8][9] Reclaim The Records was formally incorporated in December 2016 and was granted 501(c)(3) non-profit status by the IRS in February 2017. Notable legal cases
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References1. ^1 {{cite web|URL=http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2017/05/group_looks_to_open_access_to_genealogy_records.html|title=Group looks to open access to genealogy records|last=Klein|first=Daniel|website=NJ.com True Jersey|date=May 5, 2017|accessdate=December 16, 2017}} 2. ^[https://www.legalgenealogist.com/2015/09/30/we-dont-always-lose/ We Don't Always Lose], The Legal Genealogist (Judy G. Russell), retrieved 14 December 2017 3. ^[https://extrayad.blogspot.com/2015/09/brooke-ing-no-denial-reclaim-records.html Brooke-ing no denial: Reclaim the Records successfully pursues NYC marriage affidavits/licenses], (going) The Extra Yad (Emily Garber), retrieved 14 December 2017 4. ^Public Records Access: One Genealogist Can Make A Difference!, Avotaynu Online (Jan Meisels Allen), retrieved 14 December 2017 5. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.avotaynuonline.com/2015/10/breaking-news-ny-municipal-archives-throws-in-the-towel-in-public-access-fight/|title=Breaking News! NY Municipal Archives Throws In the Towel in Public Access Fight! - Avotaynu Online|date=2015-10-01|work=Avotaynu Online|access-date=2018-06-22|language=en-US}} 6. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.avotaynuonline.com/2015/11/first-fruits-of-the-reclaim-the-records-access-project-are-obtained/|title=First Fruits of the 'Reclaim the Records" Access Project Are Obtained! - Avotaynu Online|date=2015-11-13|work=Avotaynu Online|access-date=2018-06-22|language=en-US}} 7. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/pith-in-the-wind/article/20854715/the-2017-worst-in-government-transparency-awards|title=The 2017 Worst In Government Transparency Awards|date=Mar 13, 2017|website=nashvillescene.com|publisher=Nashville Scene}} 8. ^{{cite web|URL=http://kcur.org/post/missouri-sunshine-law-request-yields-15-million-tab-then-5000-then-outright-refusal#stream/0|title=Missouri Sunshine Law Request Yields $1.5 Million Tab, Then $5,000, Then Outright Refusal|last=Margolies|first=Dan|date=Dec 5, 2016|website=KCUR.org|publisher=KCUR 89.3|accessdate=December 16, 2017}} 9. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/columns/tony-messenger/messenger-hawley-makes-sunshine-splash-while-defending-state-secrecy-in/article_26e2a104-16fd-5828-8fac-06e1ad130f2f.html|title=Messenger: Hawley makes Sunshine splash while defending state secrecy in another case|last=Messenger|first=Tony|work=stltoday.com|access-date=2018-06-22|language=en}} 10. ^[https://us11.campaign-archive.com/?u=5f700fdc65a51d3813e67dab2&id=740c6ab698 Our seventeenth newsletter: Introducing the New Jersey Marriage Index, 1901-2016], retrieved 14 December 2017 11. ^Reclaim the Records -- New Jersey Marriage Index, 1901-2016, Now Available for FREE!, retrieved 14 December 2017 12. ^[https://us11.campaign-archive.com/?u=5f700fdc65a51d3813e67dab2&id=8ce89a660a Our fifteenth newsletter: We won the New York State Death Index!], retrieved 14 December 2017 13. ^[https://us11.campaign-archive.com/?u=5f700fdc65a51d3813e67dab2&id=b316353782 Our sixteenth newsletter: How do you fight the Empire State, and win?], retrieved 14 December 2017 14. ^[https://us11.campaign-archive.com/?u=5f700fdc65a51d3813e67dab2&id=68377e3974 Our seventh newsletter: The New York City Clerk's Office gets served], retrieved 14 December 2017 15. ^[https://us11.campaign-archive.com/?u=5f700fdc65a51d3813e67dab2&id=aee6566e00 Our tenth newsletter: We Won! The New York City marriage index 1930-1995 will be free and open data!], retrieved 14 December 2017 16. ^[https://us11.campaign-archive.com/?u=5f700fdc65a51d3813e67dab2&id=1d3d028591 Our eleventh newsletter: The New York City marriage index for 1950-1995 is now Online!] 17. ^[https://us11.campaign-archive.com/?u=5f700fdc65a51d3813e67dab2&id=6a1be2dc76 Our first newsletter — and our first win!], retrieved 14 December 2017 18. ^[https://us11.campaign-archive.com/?u=5f700fdc65a51d3813e67dab2&id=64353631b3 Our second newsletter: the one where we have forty-six microfilms sitting in our kitchen], retrieved 14 December 2017 19. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.reclaimtherecords.org/records-request/11/|title=Index to New York City Marriage Licenses, 1996-2017 {{!}} Reclaim The Records|work=Reclaim The Records|access-date=2018-06-20|language=en-US}} 20. ^[https://www.facebook.com/ReclaimTheRecords/photos/a.530487263769090.1073741828.514739838677166/829420517209095/?type=3&theater], retrieved 14 December 2017 21. ^IAJGS Announces 2017 Awards and Grants, retrieved 14 December 2017 22. ^IAJGS Announces 2017 Awards and Grants, retrieved 14 December 2017 23. ^[https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/03/foilies-2017/#missouri The Outrageous Fee Award: Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services], retrieved 14 December 2017 24. ^[https://www.ire.org/blog/ire-news/2017/06/16/ire-announces-2017-golden-padlock-award-finalists/ IRE announces 2017 Golden Padlock Award finalists], retrieved 14 December 2017 External links
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