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Entries Tagged as 'FOIA'

Bush Administration Changes Open Government Act

February 5th, 2008 · No Comments

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 […]

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Tags: FOIA · federal

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 […]

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Tags: FOIA · federal · states

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 […]

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Tags: FOIA · federal

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.

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Tags: FOIA · New Links · News