How the FOIA Improvement Act of 2014 Would Help Ordinary Requesters
This post was originally published as an OpEd. Feel free to repost. Earlier this year, the U.S. Veterans Affairs Administration denied the Tampa Tribune’s Freedom of Information Act request for the...
View ArticleResponding to Attacks on FOIA Reform and H.R. 653
This morning the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform’s Subcommittee on Government Operations had its first hearing of the session(!) on “Ensuring Government Transparency Through FOIA...
View ArticleFOIA Reform Approved by House Oversight Committee, Rep. Issa Warns of...
The FOIA Oversight and Implementation Act of 2015, H.R. 653, was approved by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform yesterday. The bill: requires agencies post more documents...
View ArticleArchivist of US Should Declare Torture Report a Federal Record, News from the...
National Security Archive FOIA Project Director Nate Jones called on the Archivist of the United States, David Ferriero, to use his binding legal authority to declare the Senate Intelligence...
View ArticleODNI Yet to Formally Withdraw Rule on Astronomically High MDR Fees Despite...
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) has agreed to modify a recently revealed plan to charge requesters up to $72 per hour to review Mandatory Declassification Review (MDR)...
View ArticleArchive’s Nomination of DOE for FOILIES Award for Egregious B5 Invocation...
The National Security Archive nominated one especially bad FOIA response from the Energy Department for the second-annual FOILIES Awards – presented for the most extraordinary and egregious FOIA...
View ArticleExemption 5 FOIA Reform Would Not Have Chilling Effect on Agency...
A recent Congressional Research Service (CRS) report provides a helpful side-by-side comparison of the FOIA reform bills currently in the House and the Senate (the National Security Archive’s analysis...
View ArticleInteractive Map of SAC Nuke List Targets, Bipartisan and Bicameral Approach...
MIT’s Future of Life Institute has built a remarkable interactive map of the nuclear targets listed for potential destruction in the Strategic Air Command’s nuclear weapons requirements study for...
View ArticleFOIA Reform Awaits President’s Signature, CIA Releases Some Torture Records...
Agencies will no longer be able to withhold historical documents – like the CIA’s history of the Bay of Pigs invasion – under FOIA’s expansive 5th exemption when the President signs the FOIA reform...
View ArticleFOIA Reform Sent to President, Privacy Oversight Board May be Curtailed,...
The FOIA Improvement Act of 2016 (S.337) was sent to the President’s desk on June 22, and the President has ten business days to sign the bill. If President Obama waits (as he likely will) until the...
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