Implementation of the Electronic Freedom of Information Amendments of 1996: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Government Management, Information, and Technology of the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, Second Session, June 9, 1998U.S. Government Printing Office, 1999 - 152 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
1996 Amendments access to government Administration affirmative disclosure agency records agency's Amendments of 1996 Attorney backlog budget Center Chairman COLLINGWOOD compliance components CONGRESS THE LIBRARY Department of Justice Department's documents EFOIA Electronic FOI Act Electronic FOIA Electronic Freedom electronic reading rooms electronic records Federal agencies files fiscal FOIA Amendments FOIA home FOIA Homepage FOIA Office FOIA process FOIA requests FOIA Update Freedom of Information FTEs going government information guidance handbooks HORN HUFF implementation Information Act Amendments Information and Privacy Internet issue Kirtley KUCINICH LIBRARY OF CONGRESS locator systems LOPEZ major information systems mandate ment NASA NASA headquarters nuclear Nuclear Regulatory Commission number of requests Office of Information OMB Watch OMB's Paperwork Reduction Act Privacy Act privacy exemption problem public access Public Citizen public interest reduced regulations repeatedly requested records Reporters Committee response RIEP-DICE staff statute SUNUNU tion World Wide Web
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Página 8 - A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or, perhaps, both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
Página 26 - Each agency, in accordance with published rules, shall make available for public inspection and copying — (A) final opinions, including concurring and dissenting opinions, as well as orders, made in the adjudication of cases; (B) those statements of policy and interpretations which have been adopted by the agency and are not published in the Federal Register...
Página 65 - clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy' enunciates a policy that will involve a balancing of interests between the protection of an individual's private affairs from unnecessary public scrutiny, and the preservation of the public's right to governmental information.
Página 38 - If you have any questions, I would be happy to try to answer them.
Página 137 - ... the number of requests for records pending before the agency as of September 30 of the preceding year, and the median number of days that such requests had been pending before the agency as of that date...
Página 28 - ... the agency determines have become or are likely to become the subject of subsequent requests for substantially the same records...
Página 52 - FOIA's central purpose is to ensure that the Government's activities be opened to the sharp eye of public scrutiny, not that information about private citizens that happens to be in the warehouse of the Government be so disclosed.
Página 138 - FOIA request is generally a request or access to records concerning a third party, an organization, or a particular topic of interest. A Privacy Act request is a request for records concerning oneself; such requests are also treated as FOIA requests. (All requests for access to records, regardless of which law is cited by the requester, are included in this report.) 8.
Página 69 - We must weigh the privacy interest of bargaining unit employees in nondisclosure of their addresses against the only relevant public interest in the FOIA balancing analysis — the extent to which disclosure of the information sought would "shed light on an agency's performance of its statutory duties" or otherwise let citizens know "what their government is up to.
Página 137 - ... to authorize the agency to withhold information under subsection (b)(3), a description of whether a court has upheld the decision of the agency to withhold information under each such statute, and a concise description of the scope of any information withheld; (C...