FOIA Works!!

Somebody buy the government a beer. Those guys work their asses off, toiling for years to get us important information:

If anyone is still wondering about the safety of a circus that came through Norfolk more than six years ago, we now have the answer.
A computer file of nearly decade-old federal inspections of a business that no longer exists, addressed to a reporter who no longer works at The Virginian-Pilot, arrived this week.
The records show that Sterling & Reid Brothers Circus, which was investigated after a worker beat an elephant at the Scope, had problems ranging from poor care to inexperienced staff to animals getting loose.
If only we had known that, oh, six years ago, when…