Court case could exacerbate FOIA delays
From OMB Watch: A recent court decision may make it more difficult and more time-consuming for people to receive materials from federal agencies when filing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests....
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View ArticleFOIA is looking great -- through DOJ's rose-colored glasses
From OpenTheGovernment.org: Anyone walking out of the Department of Justice's (DOJ) Sunshine Week celebration on March 11 with no previous exposure to the FOIA system would have thought the process is...
View ArticleThe Freedom From Information Act
From Thomas Clayburn, editor-at-large, Information Week: In June 2007, I filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to learn more about the basis for Google's complaint that Microsoft's...
View ArticleImportant D.C. Circuit FOIA ruling affirms agencies’ obligation to respond...
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View ArticleOGIS helps to resolve three-year old FOIA request
From Matt Ehling, Public Record Media, via Twin Cities Daily Planet: In keeping with our mission, PRM aspires to be a comprehensive requester of public records. We not only submit a wide variety of...
View ArticleNSA says it can’t search its own emails
From ProPublica: The NSA is a "supercomputing powerhouse" with machines so powerful their speed is measured in thousands of trillions of operations per second. The agency turns its giant machine...
View ArticleCIA memo confirms snooping file on Noam Chomsky
From journalgazette.net: For years, the Central Intelligence Agency denied it had a secret file on MIT professor and famed dissident Noam Chomsky. But a new government disclosure obtained by FP...
View ArticleHunting local public records is faster than federal FOIA -- but with a catch
From MuckRock.com: It's been almost 50 years since the Freedom of Information Act's enactment and accessing information at the federal, state and local level has almost turned into a document lottery....
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