A provocative piece… Have you ever filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the FBI and received a written response from the agency stating that it could not locate records responsive to your request? If so, there’s a chance the FBI may have found some documents, but for unknown reasons, the agency’s FOIA [...]
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Public employees who intentionally circumvented public meeting and disclosure laws could be subject to fines under legislation reintroduced in the Generally Assembly. The bills would let a judge fine a person $100 for first offense and $500 for subsequent violations of the Open Door Law or Access to Public Records Act. The act requires meetings [...]
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Theo Karantsalis, a soft-spoken librarian who teaches research classes at Miami Dade College between freelancing for Miami New Times and the Miami Herald, has become an unlikely central character in a hotly contested federal case that has free-speech advocates ready to clash with top D.C. officials. In a case that has now made its way onto the U.S. [...]
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A legal group filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit on Monday asking that videotapes showing the interrogation of a terror detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, be made public. The suit filed in the Southern District of New York is focused on interrogation techniques used on Mohammed al-Qahtani, a man U.S. authorities have said was [...]
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And they say FOI has no street cred? Wu-Tang Clan’s Ol’ Dirty Bastard was “heavily involved” in “murder, car-jackings … and the sale of drugs [and] illegal guns”, according to a newly released FBI report. The FBI’s 93-page file on ODB, revealed in a Freedom of Information request, connects the rapper with a litany of serious crimes in the [...]
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Regular followers of the blog probably have given up….but after academic and writing duties consumer me last term, I am back! I’ll try to be dutiful about posting new FOI items. And I apologize for the lack of posts in the past month or so…. CD
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The Media Legal Defence Initiative, an organisation that helps journalists defend their rights, is recruiting for a Chief Operations Officer and a Legal Officer. The Media Legal Defence Initiative is a charity that helps journalists defend their rights. We provide support for the defence of journalists and independent media outlets, and we do so through [...]
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Palin’s emails to be released to several media outlets today, in five huge storage boxes…. http://www.adn.com/2011/05/31/1892284/state-prepares-to-release-palin.html
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