What are your favorite redactions? These are mine.
As the government explained
From a redacted brief (aclu.org, local mirror) in an ACLU case, h/t Adam Klasfeld.
FBI retirement party
A photocopied cache of redacted photographs and documents related to the retirement party of someone who worked at the FBI, including a truly surreal PowerPoint presentation. Originally FOIA’d by Brad Heath at USA Today, and released to the public by J.K. Trotter at Gawker in 2014.
I made a coloring book out of these. That page also contains links to an archive of the entire FOIA response as released by Gawker.
Guantanamo artwork
Redacted art work from Guantanamo detainees, FOIA’d by Jason Leopold.
No snack car
From a FOIA request. by a MuckRock user. Local mirror of response documents: