On January 22nd, this blog reported on President Bush’s signing of the Open Government Act. One of the features of this Act was to create a Office of Government Information Services within the National Archives and Records Administration to oversee government compliance with the Freedom of Information Act.
Senator Patrick Leahy and other government advocates are […]
Entries Tagged as 'FOIA'
Bush Administration Changes Open Government Act
February 5th, 2008 · No Comments
Removing Personal Information From Public Records
January 30th, 2008 · 4 Comments
We here at the Free Public Records Directory are sometimes contacted about removing personal information from public records. It seems a good idea to cover this idea on a broader basis. Neither our site, nor any other directory of public links, has the ability to remove information from public record files. Public records are generated […]
President Bush Signs Open Government Act
January 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
On the last day of 2007, President Bush signed the Open Government Act of 2007. This Act amends the Freedom of Information Act and puts in place a tracking system so that both citizens and the media can determine the status of their FOIA requests, if such request will take longer than ten days to […]
Online Help for FOIA and Government Records
December 19th, 2007 · No Comments
Several online resources related to FOIA requests and access to government documents are described in this article from the new Court Reference Blog.