The Project on Government Secrecy works to challenge excessive government secrecy and to promote public oversight in national security affairs.
System Status - Welcome! The Right-to-Know Network, a service provided by OMB Watch, provides free access to numerous databases, text files, and conferences on the environment, housing, and sustainable development. With the information available on RTK NET, you can identify specific factories and their environmental effects; analyze reinvestment by banks in their communities; and assess people ...
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Introduction In early 1975, the FBI assigned a handful of employees the task of handling an anticipated influx of Freedom of Information Act requests due to new legislation. Although the Freedom of Information Act had been in effect since 1967, it did not apply to investigatory files compiled for law enforcement purposes, thus generally exempting FBI files from public access. By the end of 1975, ...
Access Reports keeps you up to date on all Freedom of Information Act and Privacy Issues, tracking policy trends while summarizing and analyzing court decisions, legislation (federal, state, and --in Canada-- provincial), regulations, and Agency guidance.
Back to the FOI page The Fully-Automated Fill-in-the-Blanks FOI Letter Generator Brought to you by The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press Submitting a FOI request to a federal agency is not difficult, but a complete, well-written request may help you avoid delays and further correspsondence with a government agency. The form below is designed to help you create a simple FOI letter. It ...
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GO TO REPORTERS COMMITTEE HOME PAGE 8th Edition This pamphlet is designed as a general do-it-yourself guide to using the federal Freedom of Information Act. This is the eighth edition of the guide, which was originally published in 1976, and has been updated and expanded to include recent court opinions which affect the FOI Act. This pamphlet was researched and edited by The FOI Service Center, ...
Open Government Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both. -- James Madison EPIC's FOIA Docket Scanned Images of Selected Documents Obtained Under FOIA EPIC's ...
From the House Reports Online via GPO Access wais.access.gpo.gov Union Calendar No. 25 105th Congress, 1st Session House Report 105-37 A CITIZEN'S GUIDE ON USING THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT AND THE PRIVACY ACT OF 1974 TO REQUEST GOVERNMENT RECORDS FIRST REPORT by the COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT REFORM AND OVERSIGHT March 20, 1997.--Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the ...
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