https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bj49qa/why-seattle-accidentally-sent-this-activist-the-first-256-characters-of-32-million-internal-emails

For the last few years, a self-professed “FOIA-nerd” by the name of Matt Chapman has been using FOIA requests and data analysis to not only improve city government transparency—but improve the way cities function. Chapman founded the non-profit Free Our Info for teaching and advocating the release of digital records.

Chapman’s efforts are prodigious: he’s submitted over a hundred requests for email metadata across the United States—at least two per state.