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Freedom of Information Regulations: Still Outdated, Still Undermining Openness - Adele Edisen - 13-03-2013 Wed, March 13, 2013 10:28:01 AM FW: Freedom of Information Regulations: Still Outdated, Still Undermining Openness From: Tree Frog Freedom of Information Regulations: Still Outdated, Still Undermining Openness Majority of Agencies Have Not Updated FOIA Rules to Meet Either Obama's 2009 Order or Congress's 2007 Law Second Term Obama Opportunity to Direct Agencies to Adopt Regulations for Open Government New National Security Archive Audit Covers 100 Federal Agencies, Previous Knight Open Government Surveys Showed Mixed Results Posted - March 13, 2013 For more information contact: Tom Blanton/Nate Jones/Lauren Harper 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu Washington, D.C., March 13, 2013 -- A clear majority of federal agencies have failed to update their Freedom of Information Act regulations to comply either with Congress's changes to the law in 2007 or President Obama's and Attorney General Holder's changes to the policy in 2009, according to a revised government-wide audit published today by the independent non-governmental National Security Archive (http://www.nsarchive.org) to mark Sunshine Week. The audit found that 53 out of 100 federal agencies did not change their regulations to meet the requirements Congress put into law with the OPEN Government Act of 2007. Those amendments prohibited agencies from charging processing fees if they missed the response deadlines, ordered agencies to cooperate with the new FOIA ombudsman, the Office of Government Information Services (OGIS), and required reports of specific data on their FOIA output. "As President Obama begins his second term, his administration has an opportunity it should not pass up," said National Security Archive director Tom Blanton, "to order all agencies to update their FOIA regulations to comply with the law and instill a presumption of openness." Check out today's posting at the National Security Archive website - http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB417/ Find us on Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/NSArchive Unredacted, the Archive blog - http://nsarchive.wordpress.com/ ________________________________________________________ THE NATIONAL SECURITY ARCHIVE is an independent non-governmental research institute and library located at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. The Archive collects and publishes declassified documents acquired through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). A tax-exempt public charity, the Archive receives no U.S. government funding; its budget is supported by publication royalties and donations from foundations and individuals. _________________________________________________________ PRIVACY NOTICE The National Security Archive does not and will never share the names or e-mail addresses of its subscribers with any other organization. Once a year, we will write you and ask for your financial support. We may also ask you for your ideas for Freedom of Information requests, documentation projects, or other issues that the Archive should take on. We would welcome your input, and any information you care to share with us about your special interests. But we do not sell or rent any information about subscribers to any other party. Adele Freedom of Information Regulations: Still Outdated, Still Undermining Openness - Magda Hassan - 13-03-2013 More accurately called Freedom From Information. Freedom of Information Regulations: Still Outdated, Still Undermining Openness - Adele Edisen - 14-03-2013 Magda Hassan Wrote:More accurately called Freedom From Information. Exactly, Magda. Adele |