A new website by Transactional Records Access Clearing (TRAC) house at Syracuse University will provide data about Freedom of Information Act requests.
The website is considering whether to provide a way for users to describe how agencies arbitrarily denied their request. TRAC says as it stands now there are no penalties for violating FOIA so publicizing “egregious” denials may provide some incentive for compliance. -db
From The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, March 30, 2011, by Christine Beckett.