#opengovernment — Public Fediverse posts
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New provincial laws are making it harder to access government records in Canada
#Canada #FreedomOfInformation #AccessToInformation #Transparency #Journalism #HumanRights #Privacy #OpenGovernment #PublicRecords #Politics #Ontario #Alberta #BritishColumbia
https://the-14.com/new-provincial-laws-are-making-it-harder-to-access-government-records-in-canada/ -
#OpenData & #OpenSource sind zentrale Bausteine für #OpenGovernment, #Demokratie #DigitaleSouveränität.
Beim #CreativeBureaucracy Festival zeigten Max Melle und Luisa Lamm / Bayerische Digitalagentur Byte & Olaf Neumann / Digitalagentur Brandenburg, wie erfolgreiche Nachnutzung funktioniert - Brandenburg nutzt jetzt das Open Data-Portal Bayerns 🔗@ocbydata!
💡Die Stadt #Augsburg nutzt übrigens auch das bayerische Open-Data-Portal unter https://augsburg.bydata.de.
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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