Showing Results for
- Academic Journals (1,079)
Search Results
- 1,079
Academic Journals
- 1,079
-
From:Information Management Journal (Vol. 41, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedBloggers seeking information from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) most likely won't have to pay for it. Per new CIA rules that define them as part of the news media, bloggers making Freedom of Information Act...
-
From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 45, Issue 32)Letters and e-mail messages flooded the Office of Management and Budget when a law was proposed giving the public access to research performed with funding from federal grants. Supporters of the proposal say taxpayers...
-
From:Michigan Law Review (Vol. 112, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedII. DOES LAW NEED TO BE PUBLIC? The IBR situation runs afoul of a widely shared intuition--that law created by the federal government needs to be public. The rules are not secret, but unlike other binding federal...
-
From:International Law Update (Vol. 20, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedSECOND CIRCUIT REVIEWS FOIA REQUEST FOR INFORMATION RELATED TO TARGETED KILLINGS OF U.S. CITIZENS BY DRONES; OFFICIALS MADE PUBLIC STATEMENTS THAT RESULTED IN A WAIVER OF A FOIA EXEMPTION THAT WOULD HAVE OTHERWISE...
-
From:Yale Law Journal (Vol. 128, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn the formative periods of American "open government" law, the idea of transparency was linked with progressive politics. Advocates of transparency understood themselves to be promoting values such as bureaucratic...
-
From:American Libraries (Vol. 37, Issue 2)Recently disclosed internal FBI e-mail messages reveal that some agents felt constrained by the difficulty of getting approval to use powers under the USA Patriot Act. The messages were turned over to the Electronic...
-
From:Trial (Vol. 55, Issue 3)The government works for the American people: That's the main principle behind the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). (1) Unfortunately, obtaining responses to FOIA requests can be a challenge, with government...
-
From:The Quill (Vol. 82, Issue 8)Pres. Bill Clinton announced a renewed commitment to open government on Oct. 1993 giving much hope for improvement on Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) issues. Similar openness initiatives have since been launched at...
-
From:The Quill (Vol. 84, Issue 8)The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) has been actively used by the general public with mixed results. Florida resident Gordo W. Winslow Jr., for instance, had to wait over 17 years before his request to the CIA for...
-
From:Information Today (Vol. 6, Issue 5)IIA Proposes Policy Framework To Guarantee Continuing Public Access To Government Information Appearing at the first of several hearings to be held by the House Subcommittee on Government Information, Justice, and...
-
From:Political Science Quarterly (Vol. 120, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedOn 22 February 2002, the General Accounting Office (GAO), the investigative arm of Congress, filed an unprecedented lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Washington over access to records from Vice President Richard B....
-
From:The Quill (Vol. 93, Issue 7)It's that time again. Nearly a decade has passed since the last major reform of the Freedom of Information Act. Since President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the act into law in 1966, it has undergone significant reforms...
-
From:Information Management Journal (Vol. 39, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedFive civil rights, animal rights, and environmental groups have sued the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to release records about the monitoring of anti-war and other political activities by federal agents...
-
From:The Quill (Vol. 90, Issue 4)A revised plan for handling former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's records is still inconsistent with New York's Freedom of Information law, the state's top open-records official said in late February. Robert Freeman,...
-
From:The Quill (Vol. 91, Issue 8)Nearly half of the U.S. government's Freedom of Information Act officials surveyed said Attorney General John Ashcroft's tightening of FOIA guidelines has had little effect on how much information is being released....
-
From:William and Mary Law Review (Vol. 53, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedINTRODUCTION On August 22, 2007, the four biggest banks in the country--Citigroup, Bank of America, JPMorgan, and Wachovia--each borrowed $500 million directly from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. (1) At the...
-
From:Monash University Law Review (Vol. 37, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe power of Victorian government agencies to refuse to process voluminous Freedom of Information ('FOI') requests is contained in s 25A(1) of the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Vic). During the initial years of...
-
From:Florida Bar Journal (Vol. 95, Issue 2)Oftentimes, a trustee's refusal to provide beneficiaries with information related to the administration of a trust leads to consternation among the beneficiaries. A beneficiary has the legal right to know certain...
-
From:Albany Law Review (Vol. 73, Issue 2)ABSTRACT This article intends to (i) identify the recent rapid development of the transparency phenomenon in the context of financial services, while noting its relative lack of definition and practical application...
-
From:The Quill (Vol. 78, Issue 9)Federal officials often ignore FOIA rules, SPJ study finds The federal government is denying vital information to the American public and thwarting the will of Congress by ignoring its obligations under the Freedom of...