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FOIA process needs improvement
WFED's Max Cacas reports.
Tags: management , Capitol Hill , Max Cacas
National Security Archive: more support for FOIA officers needed
Tags: management , National Security Archive , Meredith Fuchs , transparency
Reverse FOIA with a twist explained
The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has defined a "reverse" FOIA action as one in which the "submitter of information -- usually a corporation or other business entity" that has supplied an agency with "data on its policies, operations or products -- seeks to prevent the agency that collected the information from revealing it to a third party in response to the latter's FOIA request." POGO's National Security Investigator, Mandy Smithberger, explains it for us.
Tags: mngt , reverse FOIA , POGO , Sikorsky , contracting , Mandy Smithberger , Defense , DoD , Black Hawk
Recovery Board details FOIA, Privacy procedures
Tags: management , Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board , Federal Register , Privacy Act ,
Users testify improvement needed for FOIA
Today marks the final day of "Sunshine in Government Week", a time to consider the goals of openness and transparency in government at all levels. Yesterday, a House subcommittee got an update on one of the most important tools in the effort toward government openness: the federal Freedom of Information Act.
Tags: management , Melanie Pustay , Miriam Nisbet , OGIS , National Archives , Larry Gottesman , EPA , David Sobel , David Cullier , Tom Fitton , Max Cacas
Leahy speech opens Sunshine in Government week
FOIA "the power cord that connects the American people to their government."
Tags: newsstand , Patrick Leahy , American University , John Cornyn , Freedom of Information Act , Congress , Senate , Barack Obama
OGIS: New FOIA dispute agency begins to grow
Dubbed by lawmakers as the "FOIA Ombudsman", the new Office of Government Information Services at the National Archives is supposed to be a government-wide arbitrator when agencies are at loggerheads with members of the public who request information under the Freedom of Information Act. Yesterday, the new director of the OGIS held her first formal briefing with news reporters to discuss progress in setting up the new agency.
Tags: management , Office of Government Information Services , Miriam Nisbet , NARA , Max Cacas
Perspective on FOIA
Tags: mngt , Frank Reeder , Office of Administration , Reeder Group
Obama seeks more public input on open gov plan
President Barack Obama has proposed an open government plan that includes more streamlined responses to FOIA requests, digital record management, a revamped regulations.gov and new measures to promote public participation in government. He presented the plan at a meeting of the international Open Government Partnership in New York.
Tags: technology , Barack Obama , UN , open government partnership , Emily Kopp , transparency , open government , Regulations.gov
How agencies can meet transparency, FOIA goals
Not every agency is responding the President's call for transparency - a call that was highlighted in a memorandum signed on President Obama's first day in office.
Tags: Tom Blanton , National Security Archive , transparency , openness , Sunshine Week , Barack Obama , Dorobek Insider
