Here’s a riveting story on an outfit that uses public records to demonstrate how exposed you are, then charges you to remove the information….what a racket! Philip Cabibi, a 31-year-old applications administrator in Utah, sat at his computer one recent Sunday evening and performed one of the compulsive rituals of the Internet Age: the ego [...]
Filed under: 4. Finding records, 7. Electronic records | Tagged: arrest records, online data | Leave a Comment »
From a story in The Hill: Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) on Monday sent a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in an effort to “bring transparency” to what DeMint says was a partisan decision by the board to sue Boeing. “The public facts surrounding the complaint raise serious [...]
Filed under: 1. Records that matter, 2. Doc state of mind, 4. Finding records, 8. Officials' perspectives | Tagged: federal FOIA, Jim DeMint, NLRB, request letters | Leave a Comment »
A great idea by The Hill: Government responses to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests vary widely, with some federal agencies refusing to release data that others provide in a timely fashion, according to an analysis by The Hill. More than six months ago, The Hill filed FOIA requests for over 70 federal agencies’ FOIA [...]
Filed under: 4. Finding records, 6. Overcoming denials | Tagged: federal FOIA, FOIA logs | Leave a Comment »
A CIA-produced documentary about a secret mission in China, never aired outside the agency’s headquarters, is coming to the Internet. The agency plans a public release of the film about two CIA officers captured during a secret mission in 1952 and held for years. The Associated Press obtained a copy of the film under the [...]
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From a great NYT profile on Austin-based anarchist (can an anarchist really have a base?) Scott Crow… Blogged here by Reason: Mr. Crow, a lanky Texas native who works at a recycling center, is one of several Austin activists who asked the F.B.I. for their files, citing the Freedom of Information Act. The 440 heavily-redacted [...]
Filed under: 1. Records that matter, 2. Doc state of mind, 4. Finding records | Tagged: Anarchism, Federal Bureau of Investigation, New York Times, Texas | Leave a Comment »
Arguing that the CIA has no right to withhold records that are more than 30 years old, a watchdog group filed a motion this week seeking a federal court to compel the spy agency to reveal what it knows about the conservative Catholic group that is the stuff of legend. Public Citizen is working on [...]
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The Hartford Courant could have slugged this editorial simply as NOOOOOOO! Gov. Dannel P. Malloy wants to fold the FOI Commission into a new super-watchdog agency. Consolidations do save money, and The Courant has endorsed the merger of the state’s economic development agencies. But the watchdogs should be kept separate — especially the FOI Commission, which defends [...]
Filed under: 3. Access law, 4. Finding records, 6. Overcoming denials | Tagged: Connecticut, FOI ombudsman | Leave a Comment »
A great FOI-driven story documenting the national outbreak of crazy…. Members of Congess reported a record-high number of threats to their safety in 2010, according to The Hill. According to documents obtained by The Hill through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), the FBI investigated 26 threats of violence against lawmakers (and occasionally, their family members) in [...]
Filed under: 1. Records that matter, 2. Doc state of mind, 4. Finding records | Tagged: Federal Bureau of Investigation, FOI at work | Leave a Comment »
