Archive for the 'FOIA' Category
New effort afoot to pass FOIA bill
December 4th, 2007AP - “Lawmakers are scrambling to align House and Senate versions of a bill to tighten freedom of information laws in time to pass it this year.”
Let’s hope that Congress gets it done. It looks like a pro-library bill.
FOIA? - More like FoiNope
August 10th, 2007The Coalition of Journalists for Open Government - “Over the past nine years that agencies have been reporting performance data, the number of FOIA requests processed has fallen 20%, the number of FOIA personnel is down 10%, the backlog has tripled, and the cost of handling a request is up 79%.” (via)