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Opinion: Electronic Frontier Foundation finds political bias in processing of FOIA requests

donal brown March 31, 2011

The House Oversight Committee is investigating Freedom of Information Act requests processed by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF)  complained last October that the department was targeting certain requesters which included journalists and activist groups for extra layers of review. EFF also says that the DHS not only failed to produce records on a timely basis but also withheld documents. -db From a commentary from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, March

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Government electronic database suffering delays and cost overruns

donal brown February 8, 2011

The Government Accountability Office (GOA) found that the National Archives and Records Administration’s (NARA) initiative to increase transparency in the federal government by establishing a searchable, electronic database is facing delays and cost overruns. The program is expected to be only 65 percent complete  by September. The cost could be $193 million to $433 million higher than planned. The GAO blamed poor management for the failings. Its report said, “NARA has not been positioned to

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A&A: University fails to make good faith effort to respond to records request

FAC February 3, 2011

Q: I was laid off by the University of California this fall.  I subsequently submitted two CPRA requests regarding funding sources for my position. I requested that I be told if this information was to be withheld, but I was told that I had a right to this information. However, it has been three to four months with no result. I caught the office lying to me last month. It promised production of documents but

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Electronic Frontier Foundation joins media groups in filing amicus brief to uphold access to GIS maps

donal brown January 24, 2011

EFF is asking a California Court of Appeal to uphold the public’s right to electronic files created by local governments in the case Sierra Club v. Superior Court. -db Electronic Frontier Foundation Commentary By Mark Rumold Last week, EFF joined a coalition of public interest and media groups in filing an amicus brief (pdf) urging a California Court of Appeal to uphold the public’s right to access electronic files created and stored by local governments.

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Federal judge orders CIA to produce records of government experiments on soldiers 1950-1975

donal brown November 18, 2010

Three veteran groups and six individual veterans won a judgment in federal court ordering the CIA to produce records about human experiments conducted on soldiers from 1950 to 1975. -db Courthouse News Service November 17, 2010 By Annie Youderian (CN) – A federal magistrate judge in San Francisco ordered the CIA to produce specific records and testimony about the human experiments the government allegedly conducted on thousands of soldiers from 1950 through 1975. Three veterans

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