[DDN] [Net-Gold] Sunshine Week

[David P. Dillard]

Date: 11 Mar 2007 10:10:33 -0700
From: sabinbailey01 at comcast.net
Reply-To: Net-Gold at yahoogroups.com
To: net-gold at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Net-Gold] Sunshine Week


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Sunshine Week

The list attached to the link below is
quite comprehensive.

<http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Surveillance/
Terrorism/antiterrorism_chill.html>


"Ashcroft tell agencies to resist
Freedom-of-Information requests
Attorney General John Ashcroft has
issued a new statement of policy that
encourages federal agencies to resist
FOIA requests whenever they have legal
grounds to do so. The new statement
supersedes a 1993 memorandum from
Attorney General Janet Reno which
promoted disclosure of government
information through the FOIA unless
it was "reasonably foreseeable that
disclosure would be harmful."
October 12th new FOIA policy statement
versus Attorney General Reno's 1993
memorandum on FOIA , fwded by
Intellectual Freedom Action News,
October 17, 2001 "


Having been involved with an ongoing
attempt by an attorney to receive
documents under FOIA, I am quite
familiar with just how difficult it
is to obtain public records these days.


This is "Sunshine Week" and we'll all
probably read about Open Governement
in many articles.


If anyone is interested in our FOIA
attempts (mine especially related to
FCI La Tuna), you can go to:


<http://www.victorvillefoia.org>

And from our local newspaper:

<http://freenewmexican.com/news/58360.html>


ONLINE RESOURCES:

Many states have nongovernmental
resources such as university
associations for freedom of information,
coalitions for open government and
press groups that can help you in
composing a request for information.

A list of such groups can be found at
the Society of Professional Journalists
at

<http://www.spj.org/foicenters.asp?>

For details on your state laws, there
are other Web sites that are helpful.

They include:

—The Freedom of Information Center at
the University of Missouri-Columbia at

<http://foi.missouri.edu/citelist.html>

—The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press at

<http://www.rcfp.org/ogg/index.php>

—The Marion Brechner Citizen Access Project at

<http://www.citizenaccess.org/>

For requests of the federal government,
a good resource is the

National Security Archive

at

<http://www2.gwu.edu/7/8nsarchiv/nsa/foia.html>


It has details on the law, its history, exemptions
and sample letters to send to federal agencies.

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
has a summary of open-records and open-meetings
laws in all 50 states.

<http://www.rcfp.org/ogg/index.php>



Sabin Bailey



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