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https://www.europesays.com/people/159482/ Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon secrecy push threatens access to unclassified records #Congress #DefenseDepartment #DonaldTrump #FreedomOfInformationAct #OpenRecords #PeteHegseth #PhoneRecords #PublicAccess #ThePentagon
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The Supreme Court ruling that hurt me may now protect trans youth
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/opinion/james-dale-pentagon-scouting-lawsuit
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The Supreme Court ruling that hurt me may now protect trans youth
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/opinion/james-dale-pentagon-scouting-lawsuit
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RE: https://journa.host/@muckrock/116861712423780727
Signed into law 60 years ago, and became effective the following day, FOIA is an indispensable tool for transparency and for keeping our government accountable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Information_Act_(United_States)
https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2026/how-journalists-use-foia-public-records-reporting/
#FOIA #FreedomOfInformationAct #transparency #accountability
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RE: https://journa.host/@muckrock/116861712423780727
Signed into law 60 years ago, and became effective the following day, FOIA is an indispensable tool for transparency and for keeping our government accountable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Information_Act_(United_States)
https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2026/how-journalists-use-foia-public-records-reporting/
#FOIA #FreedomOfInformationAct #transparency #accountability
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https://www.europesays.com/people/129827/ Complaint Seeks Disclosure of Pentagon’s Agreement With Scouting America #BoyScouts #DefenseDepartment #DiversityInitiatives #FreedomOfInformationAct #hegseth #pete #PeteHegseth #SuitsAndLitigation(Civil) #transgender #UnitedStatesDefenseAndMilitaryForces
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https://www.europesays.com/people/122492/ California Bill Could Let Government Sue Public Records Users #BlancaPacheco #DanaWilliamson #Downey #FBI #FirstAmendment #FreedomOfInformationAct #GavinNewsom #GovernorGavinNewsom #irs #JenniferSiebelNewsom #XavierBecerra
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Effectively USING THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT (FOIA) - often described as the law that keeps citizens in the know about their government.
https://rosecoveredglasses.wordpress.com/2026/05/21/effectively-using-the-freedom-of-information-act-foia/
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Effectively USING THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT (FOIA) - often described as the law that keeps citizens in the know about their government.
https://rosecoveredglasses.wordpress.com/2026/05/21/effectively-using-the-freedom-of-information-act-foia/
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Effectively Using The Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA)
“SMALLTOFEDS”By Ken Larson
“The FOIA is a law that gives you the right to access federal government information. It is often described as the law that keeps citizens in the know about their government. Agencies must disclose any information that is requested – unless that information is protected from public disclosure.”
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BACKGROUND
Extract: United States Department of Justice Web Site:
“Enacted on July 4, 1966, and taking effect one year later, the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) provides that any person has a right, enforceable in court, to obtain access to federal agency records, except to the extent that such records (or portions of them) are protected from public disclosure by one of nine exemptions or by one of three special law enforcement record exclusions. A FOIA request can be made for any agency record. Before sending a request to a federal agency, you should determine which agency is likely to have the records you are seeking. Each agency’s website will contain information about the type of records that agency maintains.”
The FOIA is a law that gives you the right to access federal government information. It is often described as the law that keeps citizens in the know about their government. Under the FOIA, agencies must disclose any information that is requested – unless that information is protected from public disclosure. The FOIA also requires that agencies automatically disclose certain information, including frequently requested records. As Congress, the President, and the Supreme Court have all recognized, the FOIA is a vital part of our democracy.”POINTS OF CONTACT (POC)
Contacts
A typical Federal Agency POC page will look like this:
“ContactsThe Office of Management (OM) advises the public and U.S. Department of Education (ED) employees regarding FOIA requests and ED information available to the public. As the lead organization for ED’s FOIA Program, OM provides training for ED officials and guidance and support to the FOIA Coordinators and FOIA Review Officers in the Department’s Principal Offices and 12 regional and field offices.
Send requests via email to: [email protected]
Send requests via fax to: (202) 401-0920
Send requests via mail to:U.S. Department of Education
Office of Management
Office of the Chief Privacy Officer
400 Maryland Avenue, SW, LBJ 2E321
Washington, DC 20202-4536
ATTN: FOIA Public LiaisonFOIA Requester Service Center
(202) 401-8365FOIA Director
(202) 453-6362
Gregory SmithFOIA Public Liaison and Team Lead
(202) 205-0733
Robert WehausenFOIA Analysts
(202) 401-8365
Elise Cook
Arthur Caliguiran
Christie SwaffordFOIA Appeals
(202) 401-8365
Arthur CaliguiranPrivacy Act Requests
(202) 401-8365
PRACTICAL USE
Although occasions may arise for use of the FOIA on legal matters, personnel issues, and records that relate to agency background and activities, the most common uses of the FOIA in government contracting are as follows:- Market Research
- Copies of historical contracts issued by an agency as well as contractor proposals.
- Specific articles supporting a protest action.
RESPONSE TIME
The FOIA require a 30 day response time to your request, but actual response times vary by agency and backlog.
If the agency determines the request will exceed $25 in costs, you should indicate in your request that you will be willing to pays those costs to receive the data.
MAKE YOUR REQUEST AS SPECIFIC AS POSSIBLE
Identify the document or documents specifically by name and identifying number (s). When requesting contracts, RFP’s, change orders and similar data, always include the contract number and be specific with regard to references to all changes. If proposals are requested include a specific request for management, technical and cost volumes. The more detail you provide the more likely the response will supply what you wish to have.
BE PREPARED FOR GOVERNMENT REDACTING
When the government receives requests for copies of contracts, proposals and similar data that contain specific in formation pertinent to another company, they are required to contact that company and ask for identification of information the firm deems proprietary. To the extent the firm identifies such data, expect the response you receive to have the data redacted (blanked out and unreadable).
EXPEDITINGAmong the larger agencies, especially DOD and Justice, it is rare to receive the information requested in a FOIA within 30 days. Be prepared to expedite, by email, registered letter and by visitation if necessary, depending on the importance of the request to your business.
REFUSALS
Refusals by the government can be appealed if you and your legal counsel make the judgment a given request falls outside of the following exemptions permitted the government or one of three special law enforcement record exclusions detailed at the FOIA web site:”Exemption 1: Information that is classified to protect national security. The material must be properly classified under an Executive Order.
Exemption 2: Information related solely to the internal personnel rules and practices of an agency.
Exemption 3: Information that is prohibited from disclosure by another federal law. Additional resources on the use of Exemption 3 can be found on the Department of Justice FOIA Resources page.
Exemption 4: Information that concerns business trade secrets or other confidential commercial or financial information.
Exemption 5: Information that concerns communications within or between agencies which are protected by legal privileges, that include but are not limited to:
Attorney-Work Product PrivilegeAttorney-Client PrivilegeDeliberative Process PrivilegePresidential Communications Privilege
Exemption 6: Information that, if disclosed, would invade another individual’s personal privacy.
Exemption 7: Information compiled for law enforcement purposes if one of the following harms would occur. Law enforcement information is exempt if it:
7(A). Could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings
7(B). Would deprive a person of a right to a fair trial or an impartial adjudication
7(C). Could reasonably be expected to constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy “
7(D). Could reasonably be expected to disclose the identity of a confidential source
7(E). Would disclose techniques and procedures for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions
7(F). Could reasonably be expected to endanger the life or physical safety of any individual
Exemption 8: Information that concerns the supervision of financial institutions.Exclusions:
Congress has provided special protection in the FOIA for three narrow categories of law enforcement and national security records. The provisions protecting those records are known as “exclusions.” The first exclusion protects the existence of an ongoing criminal law enforcement investigation when the subject of the investigation is unaware that it is pending and disclosure could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings. The second exclusion is limited to criminal law enforcement agencies and protects the existence of informant records when the informant’s status has not been officially confirmed.
The third exclusion is limited to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and protects the existence of foreign intelligence or counterintelligence, or international terrorism records when the existence of such records is classified. Records falling within an exclusion are not subject to the requirements of the FOIA. So, when an office or agency responds to your request, it will limit its response to those records that are subject to the FOIA.”WHAT IF YOUR COMPANY DATA IS REQUESTED UNDER THE FOIA?
When notified by a contacting officer that copies of your company contract(s) and/or proposal(s) have been requested by another firm, identify to the officer the pricing data, proprietary data and sensitive information you do not wish to have disclosed and formally indicate by letter the sections of the documents you wish redacted prior to release to another firm. The officer may or may not provide to you the name of the firm requesting the information. If you are involved in a re-compete effort for which you are the incumbent it is wise to inform the FOIA Officer of the agency involved that you expect to be notified when requests are made for copies of your information.
SUMMARY
We suggest you study the FOIA site and the agency(s) you target for information. Be specific in your requests and be prepared to expedite them. The FOIA can be a valuable tool for your business, but it usually takes patience and practice to use it effectively.”
#dataProtection #FOIA #FreedomOfInformationAct #news
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The FCC Received Hundreds of Complaints About Bad Bunny’s ‘Vulgar’ Super Bowl Performance
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/bad-bunny-super-bowl-fcc-complaints/
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The FCC Received Hundreds of Complaints About Bad Bunny’s ‘Vulgar’ Super Bowl Performance
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/bad-bunny-super-bowl-fcc-complaints/
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The FCC Received Hundreds of Complaints About Bad Bunny’s ‘Vulgar’ Super Bowl Performance
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/bad-bunny-super-bowl-fcc-complaints/
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The FCC Received Hundreds of Complaints About Bad Bunny’s ‘Vulgar’ Super Bowl Performance
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/bad-bunny-super-bowl-fcc-complaints/
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The FCC Received Hundreds of Complaints About Bad Bunny’s ‘Vulgar’ Super Bowl Performance
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/bad-bunny-super-bowl-fcc-complaints/
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Former Fauci Adviser Indicted on Covid-Related Charges https://www.byteseu.com/1975784/ #America #ArchivesAndRecords #CoronavirusOriginsInvestigation #DavidM #EMail #FreedomOfInformationAct #Morens #NationalInstitutesOfHealth #Research #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #UnitedStatesPoliticsAndGovernment #US #USNews #USA #USANews
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https://www.europesays.com/news/21938/ Grand Jury Indicts Former N.I.H. Official #ArchivesAndRecords #EMail #Epidemics #FreedomOfInformationAct #Headlines #NationalInstitutesOfHealth #News #research #TopStories #UnitedStatesPoliticsAndGovernment
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The FCC Has a Fast Lane for Complaints About Trump’s Media Critics
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The FCC Has a Fast Lane for Complaints About Trump’s Media Critics
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The FCC Has a Fast Lane for Complaints About Trump’s Media Critics
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The FCC Has a Fast Lane for Complaints About Trump’s Media Critics
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The FCC Has a Fast Lane for Complaints About Trump’s Media Critics
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ICE Is Paying the Salaries of This Town’s Entire Police Force
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ICE Is Paying the Salaries of This Town’s Entire Police Force
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ICE Is Paying the Salaries of This Town’s Entire Police Force
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ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are
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ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are
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#ice to wear body cams.
And so i expect the next bar to be the #freedomofinformationact
If people decide to go on the offensive or more aggressive defensively...
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#ice to wear body cams.
And so i expect the next bar to be the #freedomofinformationact
If people decide to go on the offensive or more aggressive defensively...
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Trump Warned of a Tren de Aragua ‘Invasion.’ US Intel Told a Different Story
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Trump Warned of a Tren de Aragua ‘Invasion.’ US Intel Told a Different Story
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#FBI paid nearly $1M in overtime to #redact #Epsteinfiles, documents show
@bloomberg reporter @JasonLeopold sued the FBI and #DOJ for the files as part of a #FreedomofInformationAct request.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fbi-overtime-redact-epstein-files/
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#FBI paid nearly $1M in overtime to #redact #Epsteinfiles, documents show
@bloomberg reporter @JasonLeopold sued the FBI and #DOJ for the files as part of a #FreedomofInformationAct request.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fbi-overtime-redact-epstein-files/
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Open Records Advocates Alarmed as DHS Abandons Text Archiving Software
Relying on agents to archive their own messages via screenshots has the potential for error and abuse, experts say. -
Open Records Advocates Alarmed as DHS Abandons Text Archiving Software
Relying on agents to archive their own messages via screenshots has the potential for error and abuse, experts say. -
The #Pentagon has to provide #NewYorkTimes information about #ElonMusk #security clearances, a federal judge ruled Wednesday—and the #billionaire own #socialmedia habits helped decide the case. In September 2024, the Times filed a #FOIA #FreedomofInformationAct request seeking “a list of security clearances” granted to #Musk, including “any details about the extent and purview of each of the clearances.” #doge #transparency #accountability #democracy #trump #maga #firing #government #workers
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The #Pentagon has to provide #NewYorkTimes information about #ElonMusk #security clearances, a federal judge ruled Wednesday—and the #billionaire own #socialmedia habits helped decide the case. In September 2024, the Times filed a #FOIA #FreedomofInformationAct request seeking “a list of security clearances” granted to #Musk, including “any details about the extent and purview of each of the clearances.” #doge #transparency #accountability #democracy #trump #maga #firing #government #workers
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The #Pentagon has to provide #NewYorkTimes information about #ElonMusk #security clearances, a federal judge ruled Wednesday—and the #billionaire own #socialmedia habits helped decide the case. In September 2024, the Times filed a #FOIA #FreedomofInformationAct request seeking “a list of security clearances” granted to #Musk, including “any details about the extent and purview of each of the clearances.” #doge #transparency #accountability #democracy #trump #maga #firing #government #workers
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Effectively Using THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT (FOIA). It is often described as the law that keeps citizens in the know about their government.
https://rosecoveredglasses.wordpress.com/2025/08/11/effectively-using-the-freedom-of-information-act-foia/
#freedomOfInformationAct #FOIA -
Effectively Using THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT (FOIA). It is often described as the law that keeps citizens in the know about their government.
https://rosecoveredglasses.wordpress.com/2025/08/11/effectively-using-the-freedom-of-information-act-foia/
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Michael Nedd’s BLM Calendar, From Election Day 2016 through the Inaugural Period
Back in 2019, I made a Freedom of Information Act request for the work calendar of Michael Nedd, a longtime Bureau of Land Management official, for the months following the 2016 election through the inaugural period. The documents were released just the other day, six years and four months after I submitted the FOIA request.
Nedd had been promoted from Executive Director, Energy Minerals and Management to Deputy Director at the Bureau of Land Management in March of 2017, just a couple of months after Trump took office. He would have been privy, I imagined, to any discussions of Twin Metals’ canceled mineral leases and the full-court-press flurry to renew them. I thought his work calendar might help me fill out the Timeline I made of that coordinated effort or help me reconstruct what was happening behind closed doors at BLM.
Upon review, these documents do not seem all that helpful in that regard. For example, the Timeline indicates that on February 7, 2017, Nedd forwards a briefing paper on land withdrawals to his colleagues; no surprise, his calendar for that day shows a “Land Withdrawal Proposal Discussion.” In my view, all this does is drive home a point I’ve made many times, that reversing land withdrawals was a priority for the incoming administration. And we already have Nedd’s calendar for April of 2017, when he met with then-solicitor Daniel Jorjani and other officials to discuss “Mining in Minnesota.” Or at least we had that calendar, but the link (to a domain called altgov2) has now gone dead. Well, not exactly dead: it’s a tarted-up 404 Page, occupied by “affiliate marketers.” I’m not going to bother linking to it, but if you want to see what I’m talking about, just go to the entry for April 10th on the Twin Metals Timeline and click the link to Nedd’s calendar.) It’s been a while, and, contrary to popular wisdom, the Internet is not forever.
So why put these documents up now? Circumstances have changed. The threat to the Boundary Waters looks even more menacing than it did during Trump’s first term, and we should be paying attention to what’s going on now, not what happened eight or more years ago, right?
What’s more, Michael Nedd was frog marched out of BLM’s office back in May, 2025, for telling employees to ignore a DOGE directive. (Politico has the details here; the Washington Post also has a story; I’ll note in passing that it’s classic Politico to report Nedd’s ouster, which is part of the clumsily executed destruction of modern American government that we’re witnessing, as a threat to Trump’s fossil fuel agenda.) Though Nedd is still listed on the BLM website as Deputy Director, Greenwire reports that Joe Stout has now replaced him as Acting Deputy Director. Things are unclear: there may be litigation underway or some reinstatement in the works. (After all, the DC kleptocrats wouldn’t want to do anything to threaten that fossil fuel agenda).
Anyway, I put these records up now because a) they arrived, so I might as well acknowledge the response; b) they help fill out the public record for a critical period; c) someone else might find these records useful; and d) I have a chance to test out Muckrock’s DocumentCloud plugin for WordPress — which I have not used until now.
In order to upload the 2000-plus-page calendar to documentcloud.org, I had to break it into two parts.
Part 1.
Part 2.
Postscript 30 August 2025: Results from the plugin experiment are mixed. Right now, it looks as if the documentcloud server is returning a 500 error. The docs, if you want them, are here.
Postcript 2, 9 Sept 2025. 1) It turns out the 500 error only shows up when I try to view the documents on Chrome, on my laptop. The plugin works just fine on Safari and Firefox. And when I emailed Sanjin Ibrahimovic at Muckrock to ask about all this, he said he could not replicate the 500 error, even when viewing the post in Chrome. So, who knows? I speculated that it might be an extension I’m running on Chrome. As long as people can access the documents, all is well, I guess. 2) On Chris D’Amico‘s suggestion, I tried looking at the post in an incognito window. And I can see the docs just fine.
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#antiScience #bureaucracy #climateDenial #corruption #FOIA #FreedomOfInformationAct #kleptocracy #Muckrock #publicRecord #recordKeeping #Water #Wordpress
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#DOGE affiliates Kenneth Jackson & Nate Cavanaugh “disabled & restricted access to the Institute's #FOIA system, terminated the employees responsible for processing FOIA requests, & restricted the use of Institute financial resources.”
#law #Trump #Musk #transparency #FreedomOfInformationAct
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-06-13/secret-service-still-probing-james-comey-s-86-47-instagram-post -
#DOGE affiliates Kenneth Jackson & Nate Cavanaugh “disabled & restricted access to the Institute's #FOIA system, terminated the employees responsible for processing FOIA requests, & restricted the use of Institute financial resources.”
#law #Trump #Musk #transparency #FreedomOfInformationAct
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-06-13/secret-service-still-probing-james-comey-s-86-47-instagram-post -
"The FOIA has taken a serious beating over the past five months. The mass firing of federal workers has hollowed out FOIA offices at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Office of Personnel Management, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the US Agency for International Development, the National Security Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Justice Department and other agencies.
Now, add the State Department to that list. I’ve learned that a hiring freeze has stymied the agency from filling critical leadership positions, including roles that administer the agency’s FOIA operations and litigation. Additionally, contractors who review records and have classification authority were suspended through the end of the fiscal year as a result of cost-cutting measures. On the whole, the number of State Department employees and contractors who process FOIA requests has been cut in half due to the deferred resignation program and budget cuts, according to documents seen by Bloomberg News.
These cuts and departures will only exacerbate the State Department's awful track record when it comes to FOIA. The agency currently has more than 23,000 FOIA requests in its backlog, according to the latest stats on FOIA.gov. I alone have more than 50 requests pending at State, 46 of which have been stuck in a backlog for more than five years and 22 that have lingered for more than a decade.
To be clear, it’s certainly not the fault of FOIA analysts. While the FOIA is statutorily mandated, there’s not a single government agency that allocates funding specifically for FOIA operations."
#USA #Trump #DOGE #FOIA #FreedomOfInformationAct #Transparency #OpenGovernment
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"The FOIA has taken a serious beating over the past five months. The mass firing of federal workers has hollowed out FOIA offices at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Office of Personnel Management, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the US Agency for International Development, the National Security Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Justice Department and other agencies.
Now, add the State Department to that list. I’ve learned that a hiring freeze has stymied the agency from filling critical leadership positions, including roles that administer the agency’s FOIA operations and litigation. Additionally, contractors who review records and have classification authority were suspended through the end of the fiscal year as a result of cost-cutting measures. On the whole, the number of State Department employees and contractors who process FOIA requests has been cut in half due to the deferred resignation program and budget cuts, according to documents seen by Bloomberg News.
These cuts and departures will only exacerbate the State Department's awful track record when it comes to FOIA. The agency currently has more than 23,000 FOIA requests in its backlog, according to the latest stats on FOIA.gov. I alone have more than 50 requests pending at State, 46 of which have been stuck in a backlog for more than five years and 22 that have lingered for more than a decade.
To be clear, it’s certainly not the fault of FOIA analysts. While the FOIA is statutorily mandated, there’s not a single government agency that allocates funding specifically for FOIA operations."
#USA #Trump #DOGE #FOIA #FreedomOfInformationAct #Transparency #OpenGovernment
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Elon Musk Tried Keeping Issues at His Texas Mansion Private, Emails Show - The tech billionaire’s staff were concerned that correspondence about his home in West La... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/technology/elon-musk-texas-neighbors.html #realestateandhousing(residential) #fencesandpropertybarriers #computersandtheinternet #freedomofinformationact #building(construction) #westlakehills(tex) #citycouncils #muskelon #zoning
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Elon Musk Tried Keeping Issues at His Texas Mansion Private, Emails Show - The tech billionaire’s staff were concerned that correspondence about his home in West La... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/technology/elon-musk-texas-neighbors.html #realestateandhousing(residential) #fencesandpropertybarriers #computersandtheinternet #freedomofinformationact #building(construction) #westlakehills(tex) #citycouncils #muskelon #zoning
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Elon Musk Tried Keeping Issues at His Texas Mansion Private, Emails Show - The tech billionaire’s staff were concerned that correspondence about his home in West La... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/technology/elon-musk-texas-neighbors.html #realestateandhousing(residential) #fencesandpropertybarriers #computersandtheinternet #freedomofinformationact #building(construction) #westlakehills(tex) #citycouncils #muskelon #zoning
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Elon Musk Tried Keeping Issues at His Texas Mansion Private, Emails Show - The tech billionaire’s staff were concerned that correspondence about his home in West La... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/technology/elon-musk-texas-neighbors.html #realestateandhousing(residential) #fencesandpropertybarriers #computersandtheinternet #freedomofinformationact #building(construction) #westlakehills(tex) #citycouncils #muskelon #zoning
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Elon Musk Tried Keeping Issues at His Texas Mansion Private, Emails Show - The tech billionaire’s staff were concerned that correspondence about his home in West La... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/technology/elon-musk-texas-neighbors.html #realestateandhousing(residential) #fencesandpropertybarriers #computersandtheinternet #freedomofinformationact #building(construction) #westlakehills(tex) #citycouncils #muskelon #zoning