With this year’s annual Sunshine Week events behind us, it is time to reflect on what were the major themes and trends from the open government community. Last year’s major trends were mostly evolved around the utilization of technology and specifically, the emergence of the FOIA portal. This
The language in HR 1211, Section C calls for OMB to establish and fund a three year pilot of FOIAonline. HR 1211, which has already been voted out of committee, essentially gives the EPA a blank check to continue to develop their FOIAonline Portal and FOIA Case Processing solution under
When one takes a look at the Federal Freedom of Information Act, (link) it is abundantly clear that the authors of the legislation understood that, when it comes to FOIA, “one size does not fit all”. This becomes especially clear when examining the Act with regards to the instructions for each agency to
