OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 12, 2026--
Everlaw, the cloud-native investigation and litigation platform, today introduced Everlaw Prime, short for Public Records Intake Management and Ediscovery, to support public records and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for government agencies, extending its platform to address the full lifecycle of FOIA and public records requests.
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Government agencies face increasing pressure to respond to public records requests quickly, accurately, and transparently. At the same time, most FOIA and public record programs rely on fragmented systems – one tool for request intake and tracking, and another for review and redaction – creating inefficiencies, higher spending, and increased risk.
“FOIA teams are being asked to manage rising request volumes and increasing scrutiny, often with the same resources and across disconnected systems,” said Pauline Day, Product Director at Everlaw. “Everlaw already supports agencies with fast ingestion, search, AI-assisted review, and robust redaction. With Prime, we’re extending those capabilities into public-facing request intake portals and case management tools – bringing those pieces together so teams can focus on the work itself instead of managing the gaps between tools.”
The expanded offerings of Prime include:
"As a former FOIA director, I've seen plenty of tools that expect officers to adapt to the software. What I value about Everlaw is that they listened to FOIA officers, built to our workflows, and created something that fits the way FOIA processing actually works," said Michael Sarich, former Director of FOIA, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; founding co-chair, Chief FOIA Officers Council Technology Committee.
“Before Everlaw, a single public records search could return thousands of broad results and take more than a day to manually sort through. Now, with Everlaw’s smart search terms and OCR, we can zero in on what’s actually responsive much faster and spend our time reviewing records instead of wrestling with the system. We’re excited to see Everlaw continue expanding its public records capabilities for agencies like ours,” said Angela Martin-Van der Baan, Records Manager, City Clerk’s Department, City of Murrieta.
Everlaw Prime brings together request intake, review, redaction, and production into a single, unified platform. Everlaw anticipates full commercial availability this summer. Interested organizations should reach out to Everlaw here.
Everlaw will host Everlaw Connect: Virtual Gov Forum 2026 on May 13, bringing together federal, state, and local legal professionals for a government-only virtual event focused on training, insights, and peer exchange. Register here.
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Everlaw Prime, short for Public Records Intake Management and Ediscovery, supports public records and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for government agencies, extending its platform to address the full lifecycle of FOIA and public records requests.
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Forty years. That’s how long Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has been in power.
The 81-year-old was sworn in Tuesday for a seventh consecutive term to extend his presidency over a further five years that may well be his last — although not necessarily for the Museveni family.
Army chief Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the president's son and presumptive heir, oversaw dayslong rehearsals of the military parade that animated the inauguration of Museveni, with Russian-made Sukhoi fighter jets flying noisily over official ceremonial grounds in Kampala, the Ugandan capital.
Museveni took the oath of office and received the ceremonial instruments of power while being cheered by thousands attending the event in the Kampala suburb of Kololo. The president urged Ugandans to work hard and build wealth for their families, citing the stories of individuals whose entrepreneurial spirit had paid off.
“No more excuses,” he said.
Many Ugandans now accept that Museveni’s presidency — the only one that many millions of them have known — is nearing its end.
What remains uncertain is the nature of the transition and how orderly things would be in the time he has left in office.
Kainerugaba looks poised to take over. He has declared his wish to succeed his father and said recently that the mission is unstoppable.
Still, his path is narrow and could follow one of two ways: either a bloodless but unconstitutional takeover by Kainerugaba or a constitutional amendment that allows lawmakers with the ruling party — which has an overwhelming majority — to pick him as Museveni’s successor. An electoral win is seen as a hurdle too high for Kainerugaba, whose challengers would include opposition leader Bobi Wine, the popular entertainer who has twice run for president and rejected the outcome of the January election that gave Museveni his next term.
Anita Among, the parliamentary speaker, said last month that legislators would do everything possible to assist Kainerugaba in his pursuit of the presidency.
“For the sake of MK, just assure MK that we will do whatever it takes,” Among told a group of lawmakers celebrating the general's birthday, mentioning Kainerugaba's initials. “In the 11th parliament, the opposition got swallowed. In the 12th parliament, it is going to be walloped.”
In addition to the speaker, many other leaders have been scampering to show allegiance to Kainerugaba. While their moves display a quest for political survival, they also underscore Kainerugaba’s rise as Uganda’s de facto leader as his father ages and relies more on the army chief to exercise authority.
“Many Ugandans close to power have learned this lesson. That the president is old and exhausted, both intellectually and physically,” Andrew Mwenda, a close ally and friend of Kainerugaba, wrote last month in The Independent online newspaper. “He has a limited ability to monitor many things across a large spectrum of sectors.”
Kainerugaba, 52, joined the army in the late 1990s, and his rise to the top of the armed forces has been controversial, with critics dubbing it the “Muhoozi Project” to prepare him for the presidency.
Museveni and Kainerugaba denied the existence of such a scheme, but it has become apparent in the last two years that hereditary rule is possibly what the president prefers.
Museveni, who has not said when he will retire, has no rivals within the ruling party — the reason many believe the military will have a say in choosing his successor.
“While people are waiting for the legal transition from Museveni, the de facto transition has already happened,” said Angelo Izama, an analyst who runs the Uganda-based Fanaka Kwawote think tank. “Kainerugaba, more than the president, is the final voice on defense and security matters.”
Kainerugaba’s associates describe him as a dedicated military officer who often eschews ostentatious displays of wealth. He attended military schools in the U.S. and Britain before taking charge of a presidential guard unit that has since been expanded into an elite group of special forces.
In addition to his military duties, he is the founder of a political activist group known as the Patriotic League of Uganda. Its members and well-wishers range from government ministers to businesspeople.
But Kainerugaba lacks the public charisma and folksy style of Museveni, who has kept power in part by striking deals with his political rivals and even convincing some to serve in his government. Kainerugaba's style is more confrontational, expressed often in harsh online posts that can give offense. He has ordered the arrest over alleged corruption of multiple generals, including some known to have once been his friends.
Museveni first took power by force in 1986 as the leader of a guerrilla force whose goal was to democratize Uganda after years of chaos and civil war. He said at the time that Africa’s problem was leaders who overstayed their welcome. Much later, he changed his stance to say his criticism was of leaders who prolonged their rule without an electoral mandate.
Museveni, a U.S. ally on regional security, is often credited with presiding over relative peace and stability. But many others see an increasingly authoritarian streak at odds with his early promise of democracy. Term and age limits have been scrapped and some opponents jailed or sidelined.
Lawmakers recently passed a punitive bill whose stated purpose is to deter foreign interference, but which drew widespread concern over its potential to hurt the work of non-governmental organizations and opposition groups.
The legislation forbids an “agent of a foreigner” from obtaining grants or other monetary support from external sources exceeding 400 million Ugandan shillings — roughly $110,000 today — within a 12-month period without the approval of the interior minister.
Wine's party, the National Unity Platform, condemned the legislation as “unconstitutional, irrelevant and brought in bad faith to further persecute those with divergent views.”
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FILE - Lt. Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, son of Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni, attends a "thanksgiving" ceremony in Entebbe, Uganda late Saturday, May 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda, File)
FILE - Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni attends the state funeral of Kenya's former president Daniel Arap Moi in Nairobi, Kenya on Feb. 11, 2020. (AP Photo/John Muchucha, File)
