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Just the News Investigative Reporter Steven Richards submitted an Open Records Request to Fulton County requesting all records of meetings and all communications between District Attorney Fani Willis, special prosecutor Nathan Wade, or any other staff of the District Attorney’s Office with any White House or federal Department of Justice officials both in Georgia and the District of Columbia. The Office of the Fulton County District Attorney responded to Mr. Richards, stating that there are no records that are responsive to this request. However, it was admitted in a hearing before the Fulton County Superior Court that the DA’s office did, in fact, have communications with the White House. The attorney for Fulton County specifically stated that there were two written letters of communication.

These letters are responsive to the Open Records Request submitted by Just the News and Mr. Richards, yet Fulton County lied in an attempt to hide the evidence of the White House’s involvement in the partisan indictment of former President Donald J. Trump.

Brian Beneker is a white, heterosexual male script coordinator and freelance scriptwriter who has consistently written episodes for CBS’s “Seal Team” television series since 2017. He has been repeatedly denied a staff writer position with the show, while CBS hired and promoted individuals who lacked experience and screenwriting credits but were part of the favored hiring groups; that is, they were nonwhite, LGBTQ, or female. He witnessed CBS hire several staff writers without experience who met their DEI qualifications, despite telling Mr. Beneker that they could not hire him because the show had too many writers just months prior. Additionally, he had been informed by the showrunner that he did not check the right boxes for what the studio was looking for. Despite his success in writing for the series, he soon realized that he was ineligible for hiring in the writer’s room because of the illegal, discriminatory sex and race requirements enforced by CBS and Paramount.

Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) Regulation 2603 requires all students to refer to “students who identify as gender-expansive or transgender by their chosen name and pronoun, regardless of the name and gender recorded in the student’s permanent pupil record.” Additionally, this rule allows students to use the restroom and locker room “consistent with the student’s gender identity.” In other words, it forces female students to share the restroom with biological males. While this rule permits a biological male who “identifies as female” to feel comfortable using the restroom of his choice, it forces female students to choose between fear and discomfort in using the restroom of their biological sex, or having to use one of the few single-use restrooms in her school.

Majorities of Arizona voters—55 percent—“believe it is likely that problems with the 2022 election in Maricopa County affected the outcome.” As one Arizona judge wrote, election day on November 8, 2022 (the 2022 general election) in Maricopa County, Arizona was marred by “widespread failures” and “technical problems” that led to “the anger and frustration of voters who were subjected to inconvenience and confusion at voter centers.” Lake v. Hobbs, CV 2022-095403 at 3-4, (Ariz. Super. Ct. Dec. 24, 2022) (Under Advisement Ruling). One of these failures was printer malfunctions that led to many “voters who had to wait in longer lines due to these failures.” Id. Yavapai County had similar problems in 2022, with malfunctioning printers causing long lines at at least one voting center.

These failures are part of an obvious pattern. For years, Maricopa County has consistently failed in its duty to administer elections lawfully and fairly. Instead of trying to fix these problems, the county tries to fight, silence, or shame anyone questioning its maladministration. And three big counties in Arizona--Coconino, Maricopa, and Yavapai--maintain a number of other unlawful election practices, including unstaffed drop boxes, improper early ballot curing procedures, and unlawful cancellation of voter registrations. Such brazen violations of Arizona’s law undermine public confidence in the administration of elections. Election administration in the three counties has been sloppy, shoddy, and rife with mistakes. Their mismanagement has made the State of Arizona the laughingstock of the nation.

Dr. Scott Gerber, a tenured professor at Ohio Northern University, was removed from his classroom in the presence of students and told to resign or face termination proceedings following his vocal opposition to the University’s DEI hiring practices. Gerber made complaints about the hiring committee’s sex and race-based preferences for faculty to both the University’s administration and the EEOC. Dr. Gerber refused to resign, and the University has since defamed him, issuing a press release that labeled him a threat to the physical safety of faculty, staff, and students.

In the months since the commencement of this case, the termination proceedings of Dr. Gerber have reached their predetermined outcome: Ohio Northern University terminated Dr. Gerber without cause, in breach of his employment contract.

Daily Wire’s investigative reporter, Luke Rosiak (who broke the story in October 2021 of Loudoun County Public School’s cover-up of a sexual assault), filed a Virginia FOIA request with Loudoun County to obtain copies of settlement agreements for a six-month time period in 2023. Instead of complying with FOIA, Loudoun County refused to provide this information, saying it was too burdensome to do so before arguing that these documents would violate student privacy. Mr. Rosiak clarified that he was not seeking any records containing student records, yet the County continues to refuse to provide the records that we know exist in violation of state law.

The Federal Election Commission (FEC) refused to charge Biden for President, the Biden Victory Fund, the Biden Action Fund, and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) after they failed to report direct and indirect contributions and coordinated communications made in connection with the infamous and debunked “Letter of 51” to the FEC.

Pine-Richland School District has been hiding “gender transitions” of students from their parents under Administrative Regulation 103(B). The school district has also been providing students with secret taxpayer-funded “gender transition teams” comprised of government officials and psychologists who have been assisting students in developing plans to transition their genders.

Despite federal law prohibiting universities that receive federal funding from discriminating on the basis of race and sex, the New York University (NYU) Law Review selects members and editors based on race and sex preferences, clearly violating Title VI and Title IX.

Mesa Public Schools (MPS) policy (the “Trans Policy”) assists and encourages students to “transition” their gender while keeping this information hidden from parents. After this policy of parental non-notification caused controversy in the local community, the school district rewrote its policy to obfuscate what was going on. In practice, however, the non-notification policy appears to continue in force, and MPS employees do not notify parents about a student’s sexual identity issues unless the student consents to notification. Furthermore, MPS still encourages confused students to transition their gender, and at most, parents only get notified after their child has already started to socially transition at school.

The Trans Policy violates Arizona’s Parents’ Bill of Rights, which establishes that “[t]he liberty of parents to direct the upbringing, education, health care and mental health of their children is a fundamental right,” A.R.S. § 1-601(A), that is “exclusively reserved to a parent of a minor child without obstruction or interference from this state, any political subdivision of this state, any other governmental entity or any other institution.” A.R.S. § 1-602(A). In fact, the Parents’ Bill of Rights specifically prohibits what MPS is doing—all public employees, including school employees, are prohibited from “encourage[ing] or coerc[ing]” minors “to withhold information from the child’s parent.” A.R.S. § 1-602(C). Moreover, Arizona law absolutely forbids school employees from ever talking to children about any matters related to human sexuality without advance parental notification and consent.

Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) denied Matthew Foldi and Bethany Mandel access to a June 27, 2023, school board meeting following community uproar against LGBT-themed books required in MCPS curriculum and the district’s removal of parent’s ability to “opt-out” of woke curriculum. MCPS only allowed invited attendees and pre-selected speakers to physically attend the open-session school board meeting on this topic. MCPS limited access to the meeting to prevent an overwhelming number of people protesting MCPS’ policies from assembling in the meeting room, to avoid media coverage, and to mitigate the political impact of the district’s policy denying parents their opt-out rights. But in doing so, the rights of our clients were violated.

The Department of Homeland Security formed the “Homeland Intelligence Experts Group” in violation of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA). FACA requires that an advisory committee’s membership must be “fairly balanced in terms of the points of view represented and the functions to be performed by the advisory committee.” This group is a partisan, hand-selected committee that lacks diversity in viewpoints and any credibility to speak on national security matters. Not one member of this group served in the Trump Administration or has a record of advancing an America First viewpoint on national security. Members of the group are all political allies of the Biden Administration, have overwhelmingly donated to President Biden, and are Democrats.

AFL filed a FOIA request with the Department of Justice seeking records related to the Loudoun County Grand Jury investigation of a sexual assault at a Loudoun County School, and related to the arrest of the victim’s father who was angry with the school for failing to protect his daughter. The Department of Justice then estimated that the request would take more than nine months to process, which is in excess of the time provided by the FOIA.

AFL filed Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests with the Departments of Justice, State, and Homeland Security for Hunter Biden records generated between February 21, 2022, and the present. These requests followed public admissions that Hunter Biden’s laptop was genuine and that the claims to the contrary in 2020 were false. To date, however, not a single record has been produced.

AFL filed nine Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for records relating to GEC grant awards and funding opportunities, which functionally outsource Biden’s propaganda and censorship program to leftist nonprofits. AFL’s requests related to grants awarded to The Atlantic Council, National Endowment for Democracy,  Moonshot CVE, and Digital Public Square, as well as funding opportunities for a “New Counter-Disinformation Game” and NATO. The Department of State, however, has refused to turn over the requested records.

AFL obtained emails from litigation against the National Archives and Records Administration confirming that Hunter Biden directly represented Burisma in its dealings with the Obama White House, and particularly to the Office of the Vice President. Hunter was both a board member of Burisma, which qualifies him as a “foreign principal” under 22 U.S.C. § 611(b). Hunter was also an attorney at the law firm representing Burisma. An “agent of a foreign principal” under FARA includes “any person who acts as an agent, representative, employee, or servant, or any person who acts in any other capacity at the order, request, or under the direction or control, of a foreign principal or of a person any of whose activities are directly or indirectly supervised, directed, controlled, financed, or subsidized in whole or in major part by a foreign principal.”

Hunter Biden was thus apparently Burisma’s agent and subject to registration under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (“FARA”). Following this damning revelation, AFL filed a formal complaint with the DOJ against Hunter Biden for failing to register under FARA.

On June 20, 2023, Outdoor Research employee Johnathan Talbot was leaving a focus group in Bozeman, Montana, when he saw Manoah Ainuu, a North Face-sponsored ice climber who has used his platform to decry what he sees as systemic racism. Talbot introduced himself to Ainuu and mentioned that he had been on the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee at his previous job. Ainuu then began accusing Talbot of being a racist and having white privilege. At 3:00 a.m. the next morning, Ainuu took to Instagram and told his 15K followers that Talbot had said racist things and tried to fight him. Ainuu encouraged his followers to get Talbot fired from his job. The most egregious of these posts was re-shared by a North Face executive who managed sponsored athletes. Ainuu continued his crusade against Talbot for several days, and it ultimately resulted in Talbot being fired from his job at Outdoor Research.

Following widespread errors and technical problems during the 2022 general election, AFL submitted a public records request to the Arizona Department of State requesting all emails from November 8 to 16 sent to and from Katie Hobbs (Secretary of State), Allie Bones (Assistant Secretary of State), C. Murphy Hebert (Director of Communications), and Sophia Solid (Deputy Communications Director). Then-Secretary Hobbs sat on the request and never responded before she assumed the governorship. On February 1, 2023, the Department of State under Secretary Adrian Fontes denied the request, claiming that our request for emails from four officials during a span of 9 days was “an unreasonable administrative burden.”

Kroger’s Board of Directors adopted The Kroger Co. Policy on Business Ethics, which commits Kroger “to a policy of equal opportunity for all associates without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, or gender ideology.” NCPPR sent a proposal to Kroger requesting, as shareholders, that Kroger issue a public report detailing the potential risks associated with omitting “viewpoint” and “ideology” from its written equal employment opportunity (EEO) policy.

Kroger submitted a letter to the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance arguing that the proposal “deals with matters relating to the Company’s ordinary business operations” because it pertains only to “Kroger’s management of its workforce and policies concerning employees.” Kroger and the SEC effectively turned a blind eye and blocked the proposal, ignoring the fact that conservatives often face employment discrimination due to political ideology while acknowledging other factors like “gender.”

A girl, purporting to be a transgender man, shot and killed three children and three adults at Covenant, a private Christian school in Nashville. The Nashville Police Department obtained documents from executing search warrants of her vehicle and house. She left behind what the police called a “manifesto.” AFL’s client, Star News Network, a network of news agencies, filed a public records request asking for the manifesto. Metro Nashville refused to provide the manifesto, citing an ongoing criminal investigation. At the same time, Metro has identified no additional potential suspects, and the perpetrator of the crime was killed at the school by heroes of the Metro Nashville Police Department.

Arizona’s “Save Women’s Sports Act” prohibits biological males from playing on girls’ sports teams at public schools. On April 17, 2023, two biological male students seeking to overturn the law sued Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne, the two students’ local schools, and the Arizona Interscholastic Association. Arizona Senate President Warren Peterson and Speaker of the Arizona House Ben Toma filed a motion to intervene in the case to defend the Act. The court later granted their motion.

One plaintiff in the case is a prepubescent eleven-year-old, and the other is a fifteen-year-old taking puberty blockers and female hormones. The lawsuit argues that because these two plaintiffs have not gone through puberty, they would not have any athletic advantage from being biological males. On July 20, 2023, the district court issued a preliminary injunction ordering that the two plaintiffs in the case–both biological males–should be allowed to play on their schools’ girls’ sports teams.

Target Corporation and its Board of Directors have misled shareholders and customers with misleading representations on the company’s Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) mandates. Target assured shareholders that it was monitoring for political and social issues and risks that could arise as a result of the ESG and DEI policies. However, management only cared when leftist “stakeholders” cared about these business decisions. Following Target’s May 2023 embrace of the radical transgender agenda, Target shares have seen more than a $12 billion collapse in value, the largest stock price decline in over 20 years.

Washington state’s Senate Bill 5599 is a new law that allows shelters to take in children struggling with gender dysphoria and potentially provide them with life-altering “care” (potentially including sterilization) without parental consent or knowledge. The recently signed legislation creates a dangerous incentive for minors who disagree with their parents on “gender-affirming care” to run away to a shelter or host home. The new law takes away a requirement of notice to parents.

Progressive Insurance engages in racial discrimination by offering $25,000 grants to ten “black-owned small businesses to use toward the purchase of a commerical vehicle.” Our client, a white male who owns a trucking company, received an email from Progressive, his insurance company, about a grant he otherwise would have qualified for if not for the color of his skin.