governance_docs/README.md

Federal FOIA Intelligence Search

A governance-first research tool for exploring U.S. government FOIA reading rooms.

Features

• Multi-agency FOIA link search
• Inline PDF preview (public PDFs only)
• Court-ready exhibit packets
• Table of Authorities generator
• FOIA exhaustion timeline
• Persistent public share pages
• Governance & ethics documentation

Explicitly Disabled

• Background crawling
• Private data access
• Vector embeddings (FAISS Phase-4)
• Automated filing or scraping

Intended Users

• Journalists
• Researchers
• Courts
• Clerks
• Academic institutions