FOIA and Government Transparency with CREW's Laura Iheanachor

Laura Iheanachor '15L joins Law Talk to discuss how she uses open records laws  to make federal and state governments more transparent and accountable to the public. 

Ms. Iheanachor is Staff Counsel at Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a nonprofit that works to combat money in politics and conflicts of interest throughout the government.  As a law student, Ms. Iheanachor competed on the Black Law Student Association’s mock trial team and interned with the North Carolina Department of Justice and the Wake County District Attorney's Office. Before joining CREW, Mr. Iheanachor worked as a prosecutor in the Kings County District Attorney's Office in Brooklyn and defended the City of New York in federal civil rights lawsuits in the New York City Law Department. 

At CREW, Ms. Iheanachor develops open records requests and litigates them under the Freedom of Information Act and state open records laws. Her work focuses on protecting voting rights and exposing the influence of special interest groups on legislation that harms racial, ethnic, and sexual minorities.