FOIA Advisor

FOIA News: This and that

FOIA News (2024)Allan BlutsteinComment
  • For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal FOIA Advisory Committee will meet in person for the opening meeting of the 2024-2026 term on September 9, 2024. Stay tuned for an announcement on new Committee members.

  • Thirty-five years ago, the Department of Justice’s Office of Information Law and Policy (the forerunner of OIP) published the first volume of the FOIA Update, which later became the FOIA Post.

  • Law360 has published an uncritical article about efforts to expand the FOIA to the judiciary.

  • An e-discovery firm discussed several FOIA responses that went “FUBAR.” [Yours truly filed one of the cited requests on behalf of America Rising]

  • The FBI has posted another installment of records concerning hijacker D.B. Cooper.

  • The Government Attic has posted emails of former EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler from July 2018, immediately after Scott Pruitt resigned.