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I want openness. FOIA requests should not be ignored and shouldn't have to go through the court system.
When one is held accountable then one is more apt to be honest.
From my experience dealing with FOIA, it's like a person who recently became disabled and can not work due to a disability filing for Social Security disability benefits, they always, always reject initial requests, sometimes more than two or three times, that's why it is sometimes necessary to hire an attorney to file a lawsuit to get the information. Government is not all that cooperative, not at all, and not all of the time.
If people don't like the FOIA, they can appeal to their lawmakers and request the law/ruling of 1966 be repealed. But if that happens, people shouldn't be complaining that there's no openness in government.
From my experience dealing with FOIA, it's like a person who recently became disabled and can not work due to a disability filing for Social Security disability benefits, they always, always reject initial requests, sometimes more than two or three times, that's why it is sometimes necessary to hire an attorney to file a lawsuit to get the information. Government is not all that cooperative, not at all, and not all of the time.
If people don't like the FOIA, they can appeal to their lawmakers and request the law/ruling of 1966 be repealed. But if that happens, people shouldn't be complaining that there's no openness in government.
There's been a 22% rise in rejections due to "national security".
The creep is there and those words are slowly eroding any openness and transparency in how our government works.
Appealing "national security" won't cut it.
FOIA Requests Being Denied More Due To Security Reasons Than Any Time Since Obama Took Office
"I find myself stuck in a paradoxical situation in which I cannot solve a problem because of contradictory constraints and rules – a veritable Catch-22," the judge wrote. "I can find no way around the thicket of laws and precedents that effectively allow the executive branch of our government to proclaim as perfectly lawful certain actions that seem on their face incompatible with our Constitution and laws, while keeping the reasons for their conclusion a secret."
There's been a 22% rise in rejections due to "national security".
The creep is there and those words are slowly eroding any openness and transparency in how our government works.
Appealing "national security" won't cut it.
FOIA Requests Being Denied More Due To Security Reasons Than Any Time Since Obama Took Office
"I find myself stuck in a paradoxical situation in which I cannot solve a problem because of contradictory constraints and rules – a veritable Catch-22," the judge wrote. "I can find no way around the thicket of laws and precedents that effectively allow the executive branch of our government to proclaim as perfectly lawful certain actions that seem on their face incompatible with our Constitution and laws, while keeping the reasons for their conclusion a secret."
My experience predates 9/11/01, so I can't imagine how difficult it must be trying to extract information now, it must be like pulling hen's teeth.
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Originally Posted by HappyTexan
Mandated electronic medical data
Nah..the NSA won't grab that.
There's been a reason why everything's been moved to electronic format.
And "convenience" isn't #1 on that list.
Well, I know that reasoning/excuse won't fly in a court of law. I know of a private party who tried to extract public records from a city and the technician lied and said he would need to change the MS format, but as it happened, the person was a PC expert on MS forensics and called the guy out on it, and he still refused until a case was filed in federal court.
Now if we could just get all the private information of all the radical environmental groups to all the farmers, that would seem fair. And all the private information of the EPA personnel as well, while we are at it.
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