🚧 Work in Progress Notice

This restoration tracker is actively being developed and verified. Success stories and statistics are being cross-referenced with court documents, agency announcements, and advocacy organization reports. Some data may be incomplete pending verification.

Document Restoration Tracker

Monitoring successful restoration of federal information and measuring advocacy impact

68%
Overall Success Rate
Documents successfully restored
157
Total Cases Tracked
Since January 2025
23
Cases In Progress
Pending resolution
12
Legal Victories
Court-ordered restorations

📈 Success Rate by Method

Legal Challenges

85% Success

FOIA Requests

68% Success

Congressional Pressure

72% Success

Media/Public Advocacy

45% Success

🏆 Recent Success Stories

CDC HIV Prevention Data Partially Restored

Impact: Critical HIV prevention resources restored for 15+ million at-risk individuals and healthcare providers nationwide.

Following coordinated legal action and congressional pressure, CDC partially restored key HIV prevention and testing resources that were removed in January 2025.

🔍 RestoredCDC.org Comparison Tool:

The independent RestoredCDC.org project provides an excellent comparison tool showing exactly what content was removed and restored. Their side-by-side comparison highlights specific word removals, additions, and disclaimer injections by the federal restoration process.

Access: RestoredCDC.org Comparison Tool

Jan 22, 2025: CDC removes HIV prevention pages
Feb 5, 2025: ACLU files federal lawsuit
Mar 12, 2025: Congressional hearing on health data removal
July 15, 2025: Partial restoration announced
Legal Challenge Congressional Pressure

Treasury Tax Resources Partially Restored

Impact: Essential tax guidance restored for 45+ million taxpayers during filing season.

Key IRS guidance documents and forms were restored following pressure from tax advocacy groups and congressional Democrats.

Advocacy Campaign FOIA Request

📊 Restoration Methods Analysis

Our analysis shows that multi-pronged approaches combining legal challenges with advocacy pressure achieve the highest success rates.

📋 Cases Still Awaiting Restoration

EPA EJScreen: Environmental justice mapping tool confirmed still removed (404 error) as of July 27, 2025. URL: epa.gov/ejscreen

CovidTests.gov: Removed January 2025 despite being actively maintained through July 16, 2025 (23,302 Wayback snapshots). No known restoration efforts initiated.

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