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FOIA Advisor

U.S. right-leaning ownership, nonpartisan transparency focus

Owned byCo-owned and operated by Allan L. Blutstein and Ryan P. Mulvey, two private attorneys with backgrounds in FOIA law

FundingSelf-funded by the site owners; no outside advertising, subscriptions, or institutional funding

On the administrationmostly neutral

Background

FOIA Advisor (foiaadvisor.com) was founded and is operated by Allan L. Blutstein and Ryan P. Mulvey as a noncommercial public resource on the federal Freedom of Information Act. Blutstein began his FOIA career in 2004 at the Justice Department's Office of Information and Privacy, moved to the Treasury Department's Office of Financial Stability, and left government in 2013 to join the conservative public interest law firm Cause of Action Institute. Since 2015 he has served as Director of FOIA Operations at America Rising Corporation, a pro-Republican opposition research firm described by the Wall Street Journal as the 'unofficial research arm of the Republican Party.' Mulvey is senior policy counsel at Americans for Prosperity Foundation, a libertarian-conservative organization founded by the Koch brothers, and volunteers as senior counsel at Cause of Action Institute. Despite these conservative institutional affiliations, FOIA Advisor functions as a practitioner-oriented reference site — publishing federal court decisions, how-to guides, a Q&A forum, and aggregated FOIA news — rather than a partisan publication. The site is listed in the ABA Journal's law blog directory, reflecting its legal-reference character. Its recent coverage has documented the Trump administration's cuts to FOIA staff and rising request backlogs in factual, non-advocacy terms, indicating the site prioritizes FOIA process issues over partisan framing.

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Profile compiled 2026-08-02; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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