Archive for January, 2013
Radio Free FOIA
OGIS Director Miriam Nisbet appeared on WAMU radio’s award-winning Kojo Nnamdi show on January 29, 2013, for a discussion titled “Following Through on FOIA: Progress and Pitfalls.” Daniel Metcalfe, Executive Director of the Collaboration on Government Secrecy at American University’s Washington College of Law and Thomas Blanton, Director of the National Security Archive at George [...]
Posted by Carrie McGuire on January 30, 2013, under About FOIA, About OGIS.
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Thinking about FOIA Libraries
On January 21, 2013, representatives of 12 agencies and several requester groups gathered to discuss online FOIA “libraries.” The Attorney General’s 2009 FOIA Memorandum encouraged agencies to post information online in advance of a formal request. Many agencies’ FOIA regulations also require them to post records for which they receive multiple requests, and other agencies [...]
Posted by Carrie McGuire on January 24, 2013, under About FOIA, About OGIS, Best practices, OGIS events.
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Check out the next FOIA Requester Roundtable on FOIA Libraries
Did you know that agencies are required under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 USC § 552(a)(2), to make available to the public five categories of records: final opinions, including concurring and dissenting opinions and orders, made in adjudicated cases; policy statements not published in the Federal Register; administrative staff manuals and instructions that [...]
Posted by Kirsten Mitchell on January 18, 2013, under About FOIA, Best practices, OGIS events.
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Dealing with Surplus in a Time of Scarcity: Reducing FOIA Backlogs
There’s a great deal of pressure on agencies to reduce the number of FOIA requests in their backlogs. The FOIA community talks a lot about backlogs, but mostly in numbers, not in terms of how some agencies have succeeded in reducing the number of cases awaiting response. Considering the budget environment in which all [...]
Posted by Carrie McGuire on January 11, 2013, under About FOIA, Best practices.
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