Joy Ramsingh serves as public records counsel at EPI, where she litigates FOIA challenges and appeals in state and federal courts. Before joining EPI, Joy spent eight years in private practice exclusively litigating public records and public meetings matters.
Joy brought a first-of-its-kind public records lawsuit against a private police foundation, resulting in the disclosure of environmental impact studies and other records related to the construction of Cop City in Atlanta. She also successfully represented NBC Universal, Scripps News and The Intercept in obtaining 911 call recordings related to the assassination attempt against President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.
She previously worked as appellate counsel and an appeals officer at the Pennsylvania Office of Open Records, where she wrote hundreds of legal opinions in Right-to-Know-Law appeals. She also successfully represented the Office of Open Records as appellate counsel defending the constitutionality of the state’s public records law.
Joy has also won significant “bad faith” fee awards in public records disputes, not only establishing a right to access the documents, but also conclusively proving that the agency falsified and tampered with the public record before providing it.
Joy is frequently quoted in national media as a public records legal expert. She has litigated First Amendment free speech rights alongside the ACLU, and her work has appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered, NBC News, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Law.com, Axios, and others.
She serves as vice president of the Georgia First Amendment Foundation. In 2026, she became the first nonjournalist to receive Mercer University’s Center for Collaborative Journalism Media Changemaker Prize, recognizing her work enforcing Georgia’s public records laws.
She is licensed to practice law in Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee.