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Washington City Paper,Virginia Tech unloads a small document dump spurred by a FOIA and the terms of the June 17 settlement that sheds light on what school officials were
Nader to submit Maryland petitions today - 04 Aug 2008
Third Party Watch (press release)Drinking Water Act, the Motor Vehicle Safety Act, the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and countless other pieces of important consumer legislation.
US Army Private LaVena Lynn Johnson, RIP - 04 Aug 2008
Lew Rockwell,After filing a FOIA request for release of a CD-ROM contained in LaVena’s file but withheld from the family for over two years, and under added pressure
Big FOIA Backlog Lingers - Aug 1, 2008
ProPublica,FOIA backlogs decreased by six percentage points last year compared to 2006, but they are 20 percentage points higher than a decade ago.
Pols lay siege to FOIA, transparency - Aug 1, 2008
Lansing State Journal,Now, it seems, honoring and renewing that heritage will require voters to go the ballot petition route to move FOIA into the Michigan Constitution and make
Michigan Supreme Court rules in pair of FOIA cases - Jul 16, 2008
MLive.com,Michigan State University's campus newspaper submitted a FOIA for a police incident report about an assault in a dorm room. The school declined to release
In Search of Fresh Air - Jul 30, 2008
Washington Post,Even though the Smithsonian has a policy that purports to abide by the spirit of FOIA, ultimately what to release is left to the discretion of Smithsonian
At Age 42, FOIA Is Feeling a Little 'Bush-ed' - Jul 7, 2008
Editor & PublisherBut most of those who study Washington's compliance with FOIA greeted the order the way miracles should be viewed -- with plenty of skepticism.
Massey Energy sues state Supreme Court over FOIA - Jul 22, 2008
Huntington Herald Dispatch,...based coal company filed an FOIA request with the court earlier this month seeking e-mails between Starcher, his staff, the court's administrative staff and
WVU wants FOIA suit dismissed - Jul 20, 2008
Huntington Herald Dispatch,WVU also says it wants a ruling that it did comply with FOIA and an order requiring the newspaper to pay its legal costs. The newspaper wanted the records
Massey files FOIA suit against state Supreme Court - Jul 23, 2008
West Virginia Record,On July 9, Massey send a FOIA request to Canterbury, asking for the communication to or from Starcher. According to the suit, Canterbury denied the request
Bills, lawsuits attempt to thwart private prisons' escape from FOIA - Jul 22, 2008
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press,Two recent lawsuits aim to increase the flow of information from private prisons using FOIA, according to the First Amendment Center.
Va. would do well to revisit FOIA - Jul 21, 2008
Roanoke Times,The information is exempt from the FOIA. Curious about the list of subscribers to Virginia Wildlife, a magazine published by the state Game and Inland
Federal court rejects Bush appeal of order to process visitor log ... - Jul 11, 2008
JURISTThe court held that it lacked jurisdiction to consider the appeal because the lower court had only ordered the White House to process a FOIA request rather
BUAV: Court of Appeal shuts down informed public debate on animal ... - Aug 1, 2008
Politics.co.uk,The BUAV, the UK’s leading anti-vivisection organisation, brought the case after it made a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) for
Record files brief in AP FOIA suit against state Supreme Court - Jul 24, 2008
West Virginia Record,By Steve Korris -Kanawha Bureau CHARLESTON - West Virginians can read electronic mail exchanges between judges and private citizens even if the e-mails mix
FOIA ruling a setback for newspaper - Jul 17, 2008
Lansing State Journal,And, indeed, the state's FOIA law allows government entities to withhold "information of a personal nature if public disclosure of the information would
Proposed bill would remove Smithsonian’s FOIA exemption - Jul 21, 2008
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press,...requirements since the mid-1990s, when the US Court of Appeals in Washington (DC Cir.) decided FOIA would apply to the Smithsonian only if Congress said so.
Forum Editorial: Treasury’s FOIA stall gets spurge - Jul 20, 2008
In-Forum,The Forum made a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the department’s Disclosure Services in March of 2006, regarding the so-called do-not-admit
FOIA Failures Block Free Expression - Jul 17, 2008
Utne Reader Online...by Lisa Gulya Two years after President Bush's executive order calling for federal agencies to improve their processing of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
SN, MSU back to square one in FOIA proceedings - Jul 16, 2008
MSU State News,The Supreme Court sent back the ruling, saying that regardless of how much time passed after the FOIA was requested, the situation must be judged from the
Despite fewer FOIA requests, agencies still lag behind - Jul 14, 2008
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press,Despite a recent report commending government agencies' progress in responding to FOIA requests, a new study shows they haven't come as far as they might
Study shows fewer open records requests being granted - Jul 15, 2008
Dallas Morning News,The study examined reports from 1998 to 2007 for the 25 federal agencies that receive the most third-party FOIA requests. The analysis did not include two
USCIS Launches Online FOIA Request Status Check Service; INSZoom ... - Jul 9, 2008
24-7PressRelease.com (press release)USCIS has created a new system that lets foreign nationals check the status of their FOIA requests online; INSZoom, the world's largest immigration software
Food Safety Advocate William Marler Calls for Public Meat ... - Jul 25, 2008
MarketWatchThese FOIA requests can, however, take years to be processed. And so usually it is only after there has been a big outbreak and recall -- like the recent
SBA Goes After Its Harshest Critic - Jul 29, 2008
NewsBlaze,The ASBL believes Stamler's libelous e-mail campaign was an attempt by the SBA to conduct damage control after losing four federal FOIA lawsuits to the ASBL
Watchdog group sues governor and Senate president - Jul 31, 2008
Rockford Register Star,Paul Orfanedes, Judicial Watch’s litigation director, said at a Capitol news conference today that his organization has filed FOIA requests with the
Editorial: Michigan Courts Destablize Weak Freedom Of Information Act - Jul 21, 2008
CBS News,In a separate decision involving information about a police investigation on Michigan State University's campus, the court decided that FOIA did not
Federal FOIA suit filed against Army - Jul 7, 2008
C-Ville Weekly,More than a year and a half after filing a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for the appraisal of Wendell Wood’s land that was sold to the Army in
Letter misguided in its position against FOIA - Jul 6, 2008
Port Huron Times Herald,I totally disagree with Eugene F. Grewe's June 29 letter, "Newspaper should drop quest for finalist names." Grewe objects to the Times Herald's Freedom of
Open the Doors to Congress - Jul 26, 2008
Hawaii Reporter,In the 1990s, court rulings held that the Smithsonian’s status as a “trust� put it outside the scope of FOIA. Considering that in fiscal year 2008 taxpayers
Visitors Center sets info requests policy Staff will respond to ... - Jul 29, 2008
MyWebTimes.com,OVC Board Vice Chairman Hans Andrews suggested tracking the costs to the center for FOIA requests and noted the policy can be amended.
Government can't withhold data on serious car accidents, court rules - Jul 23, 2008
Los Angeles Times,..."Public availability of information under FOIA is critical to achieving that goal." The chief opponent to releasing the data has been the Rubber
Kate Campaigne: Public bodies should be posting expenditures online - Jul 28, 2008
The State Journal-Register,The public already has the right to see budget information and can obtain it through a Freedom of Information (FOIA) request. However, as anyone who has
Justice Department authorized CIA to torture prisoners in its custody - Jul 30, 2008
Center for Research on Globalization,The government was ordered to turn over the documents in response to an ongoing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit brought in 2004 by the ACLU and
Legislation, lawsuits seek to shine light on private prisons - Jul 21, 2008
First Amendment Center,However, privately owned and operated facilities are not subject to the same FOIA scrutiny as public agencies. Although the press and public can retrieve
Free Press moves to shield pair of reporters - Jul 12, 2008
Detroit Free Press,..."Kilpatrick and Beatty are bent on hijacking the Free Press' FOIA lawsuit that seeks to discover the existence of, and production of, public records,
Michigan Supreme Court limits Freedom of Information Act - Jul 20, 2008
Michigan Daily,In the second, the court ruled on a FOIA case that The State News, Michigan State University's student newspaper, brought against Michigan State.
CREW Lawsuit: Court Orders White House Office of Administration to ... - Jul 9, 2008
MarketWatchOffice of Administration, a lawsuit seeking documents under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) regarding the White House's loss of millions of emails
UFO Disclosure needs tighter and stronger networking - or, Project ... - Jul 24, 2008
Seattle Post IntelligencerAs for swimming through the labyrinth of possible clues deep within FOIA items, we are at a significant disadvantage.
Central office staff for Sullivan school system operating without ... - Aug 2, 2008
Kingsport Times News,The records were reviewed by the Times-News under a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, which also revealed some public documents were being held by
Reporters can't be asked how they got text messages - Jul 18, 2008
Detroit Free Press,Free Press lawyer Herschel Fink told Colombo that the mayor and Beatty wanted to depose the reporters to put the newspaper on the defensive in the FOIA suit
NLSD 122 considers bond restructuring - Jul 23, 2008
New Lenox Patriot,Sass explained because of the time consuming task of responding to requests for phone records through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), he preferred to pay
Feds respond with circus safety records - six years later - Jul 25, 2008
The Virginian-Pilot,A study released last year by the Knight Center on Open Government found that 12 of 57 federal agencies had FOIA backlogs of at least a decade,
Why Is It So Hard to Get Documents from the National Archives ... - Jul 20, 2008
History News Network,In an informal survey of federal historians, archivists, records managers and FOIA officers, I have not been able to identify another agency or department
Time for a Legislative Overhaul to Forward Hawaii Government ... - Jul 24, 2008
Hawaii Reporter,But as with the Federal FOIA/APA laws, Hawaii’s UIPA and HAPA have not always realized their fullest potential. Yes, it’s true that individuals can bring
White House Loses Appeal to Keep Visitor Logs Secret - Jul 14, 2008
OpEdNews,In the lawsuit filed against Cheney “two nonprofit organizations, Judicial Watch and the Sierra Club, filed civil suits, not FOIA requests, directly against
Massey Energy sues state Supreme Court over - Jul 27, 2008
SteelGuru,In its lawsuit, Massey claims court administrator Mr Steve Canterbury failed to provide a reason why the e-mails are exempted from disclosure under FOIA.
Mich. high court returns student paper's request for police ... - Jul 18, 2008
Student Press Law Center,In Wednesday's unanimous decision, the Supreme Court reversed the appeals court, ruling that facts that come to light after an initial FOIA decision is
Greenville is being sued over water well - Jul 24, 2008
Greenville Daily News,The Kelpiens filed the lawsuit after filing a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the city asking for information about test water well MW2,
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