README.md

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title: FOIA Federated Search
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sdk: gradio
app_file: app.py
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license: mit
sdk_version: 6.2.0

FOIA Federated Search (Public Interest)

A Hugging Face Space that provides live federated search across publicly available U.S. Government FOIA Electronic Reading Rooms (CIA, FBI, DoD, and more).

Key Features

• Live async fan-out search (no scraping beyond public endpoints)
• Per-agency source toggles + result counts
• Semantic search-in-results using FAISS + sentence-transformers
• Local caching + deduplication
• PDF export of search results
• Inline document preview (where permitted by source)
• Rate-limited, health-checked agency adapters

Trust & Safety

• Queries only public FOIA reading rooms
• Honors robots.txt, rate limits, and agency terms
• No authentication bypass or restricted content
• Designed for research, journalism, and public accountability

Legal

All content remains hosted by the originating agency. This tool indexes metadata and snippets for discovery only.