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Source: www.scout.com --- 15 days ago
FAYETTEVILLE — The University of Arkansas disclosed on Thursday that the men’s basketball program committed six secondary NCAA violations in the past 18 months. But the university didn’t respond in any way to Arkansas guard Patrick Beverley’s assertion in a FOXSports.com report last week that he “violated NCAA rules.” ... Source: www.freep.com --- 11 days ago
A Wayne County judge today declined a Free Press request to hold an emergency hearing on Christine Beatty's last-minute decision to postpone today's sworn testimony in a newspaper Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. ... Source: www.freep.com --- 15 days ago
A lawyer for Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick agreed today to allow the mayor to be deposed in a newspaper Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking documents in last years $8.4 million settlement of a police whistle-blower lawsuit that produced the text messaging scandal. ... Source: www.moreover.com --- 1 day ago
American Chronicle Sep 5 2008 1:40PM GMT ... Source: www.fema.gov --- 9 days ago
KAT-08-TRO-4161-KAS (Closing Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT) ... Source: www.law.com --- 25 days ago
Cozen O'Connor has won a partial victory in its court battle for access to government documents that the firm says it needs to pursue a massive lawsuit brought by a coalition of insurers against the government of Saudi Arabia and Islamic charities for allegedly helping to finance al-Qaeda in the period just prior to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. ... Source: www.poynter.org --- 26 days ago
ProPublica explains : FOIA backlogs decreased by six percentage points last year compared to 2006, but they are 20 percentage points higher than a decade ago. Overall, there was a 33 percent backlog in FOIA requests last year. ... Source: p10.hostingprod.com --- 14 days ago
We now await a reply to our Modified FOIA request to the Ministry of Justice, regarding locations of Official Secrets Act 1911 Prohibited Places declared by Order of a Secretary of State. All we are trying to do is to find out where exactly the few locations in the UK are, where it is illegal to take photographs in public ! Text of the email: ... Source: p10.hostingprod.com --- 14 days ago
A substantive reply from the Ministry of Justice, regarding our attempt to get a simple listing of where people are not allowed to take photographs of the exterior of buildings or the immediate vicinities of buildings or sites, which have been declared to be Prohibited Places under the pre- First World War Official Secrets Act 1911. I can advise you that the Ministry of Justice does hold some of the information you request. However, it will not be possible to provide you with this information within the appropriate limit set out in section 12(1) of the Freedom of Information Act. Section 12 of the Act makes provision for public authorities to refuse requests for information where the cost of dealing with them would exceed the appropriate limit, which is set at £600 for central Government. The limit represents the estimated cost of one person spending 3½ working days locating, retrieving, and extracting the information. Your request is therefore refused under section 12 (1) of the FOI Act. If you were to refine your request, for example by specifying a narrower time frame, or listing which orders you are especially interested in, we would be happy to reconsider your request. [...] We shall try again, just concentrating on the name and location of any 'Prohibited Places' declared under the Official Secrets Act 1911; specifically by Order of a Secretary of State, which are currently in force. Full text of the reply: ... Source: p10.hostingprod.com --- 34 days ago
Our attempts to clarify exactly the where you can and where you cannot take photographs in seemingly public areas, some of which used to be or perhaps still are designated as "Prohibited Places" under the pre-World War 1, pre aerial or satellite photography (or even pre- hand held camera ) era Official Secrets Act 1911 continue. The Mnistry of Justice have replied, just within the 20 working days statutory limit, to our "belt and braces" copy of our original request to the Home Office, sent on 3rd July, on the assumption that the promise by the Home Office to forward the request to the Ministry of Justice, was not something to be relied on. However, the Ministry of Justice is claiming another 20working days, i.e. up to 1st September 2008, in order to perform a public interest balancing exercise, regarding Section 24 Natioal Security exemption for some of the information requested. Surely if the idea is to prevent spies from taking photographs of "Prohibited Places" or the immediate vicinity of such places, then there need to be warning public signs and notices to that effect ? How can this be of any use if the approximate locations which are being "protected" in this way are kept secret ? 1 Penalties for spying (1)If any person for any purpose prejudicial to the safety or interests of the State-- (a)approaches, [F1inspects, passes over] or is in the neighbourhood of, or enters any prohibited place within the meaning of this Act; or (b)m ... Source: www.clickondetroit.com --- 10 days ago
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's former chief of staff could give a deposition in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit the same day a hearing on his removal gets under way. ... Source: www.clickondetroit.com --- 3 days ago
Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's former chief of staff refused to answer most questions in a deposition Wednesday held as part of a Freedom of Information lawsuit filed by two newspapers against the city, a lawyer said. ... Source: www.lansingstatejournal.com --- 3 days ago
Former mayoral chief of staff Christine Beatty today refused to answer any questions about using her SkyTel paging device to communicate with Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. Beatty invoked her 5th Amendment right against self-incrimination 61 times in nearly two hours of her sworn testimony in a newspaper freedom of information lawsuit. Beatty, who was described by lawyers as combative, often deferred to her attorney when she was asked about her communication with Kilpatrick and SkyTel. �There are consequences when a party invokes the 5th Amendment in a civil case,� said Free Press attorney Herschel Fink. �A few times she became a bit defensive. She seemed to be careful in her answers.� The Free Press and News questioned Beatty, who resigned in February in the wake of a text message scandal involving Kilpatrick, to find out more about last year�s secret settlement of an $8.4 million police whistle-blower lawsuit. Kilpatrick and Beatty lied at the whistle-blower trial when they denied having an extramarital affair and provided misleading testimony about the firing of Deputy Police Chief Gary Brown. Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy charged them with perjury in March, several weeks after the Free Press disclosed the text messages. They are awaiting trial and trying to negotiate a plea bargain. ... Source: www.rcfp.org --- 1 day ago
Thanks in part to a state Freedom of Information Act request by the Detroit Free Press, Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick agreed to resign yesterday and accepted a plea bargain that will include jail time. It . . . ... Source: www.flatheadbeacon.com --- 32 days ago
HELENA – Missoula County has obtained some documents related to private negotiations that occurred between the U.S. Forest Service and Plum Creek Timber Co., which holds easements for use of Forest Service roads. "There's definitely more (information) here than we've had before," Missoula County Deputy Attorney D. James McCubbin said Monday after federal officials provided documents the county sought under the Freedom of Information Act. The county has posted the documents on its Web site. ...
Source: www.kulr8.com --- 32 days ago
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Gov. Rod Blagojevich and Illinois Senate President Emil Jones are violating the state's Freedom of Information Act by refusing to divulge information about pork-barrel spending, according to two lawsuits filed Thursday in Sangamon County. Blagojevich suit | Jones suit Washington, D.C.,-based Judicial Watch says it wants Blagojevich and Jones to release details about how more than $2 billion in lump-sum member-initiative funds are being spent. State budgets in Illinois sometimes include so-called "lump sums" - or "pork" - for certain types of projects that benefit lawmakers' districts. But budget documents don't always spell out the individual projects or exactly how much money is being spent on each. Paul Orfanedes, Judicial Watch's litigation director, said at a Capitol news conference Thursday that his organization has filed FOIA requests with the governor's office and Jones' office to get information about member-initiative spending. Those efforts proved fruitless. The governor's office never responded, and Jones' office said any such records would belong to the individual legislator, Orfanedes said. Joe Calomino, director of Americans for Prosperity-Illinois, joined Orfanedes at the news conference and said that his group has worked with Judicial Watch in filing FOIA requests. AFPI's chairman and senior adviser is multimillionaire Ron Gidwitz, a onetime GOP candidate for Illinois governor. Calomino said that no lawsuit was fil ... Source: www.rcfp.org --- 11 days ago
A Michigan sheriff apparently took Freedom of Information Act denials to a new, unfriendly extreme when he charged a newspaper $10 for a two-paragraph letter refusing a records request. The . . . ... Source: www.flatheadbeacon.com --- 30 days ago
Missoula County's deputy attorney says recently released documents related to agreements between the U.S. Forest Service and Plum Creek Timber Co. don't go into enough detail about the private negotiations between the two parties. "You'd at least expect some e-mails or memos between them," said Deputy County Attorney James McCubbin. "But there's nothing like that. There's nothing whatsoever to explain the process they worked through." ... Find more results for FOIA on RSSMicro.com |
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by Tim Bella - Earlier this month, the Coalition of Journalists for Open Government ran out of funding. But before it shuts its doors, the advocacy group has issued one final, scathing report (PDF) showing how a key tool for open government -- the Freedom of Information Act -- is losing its bite. The report, " An Opportunity Lost ,” (PDF) surveyed Freedom of Information Act processing across 25 departments and agencies from 1998 to 2007. The study found that while the backlog of unprocessed requests was down a bit from a year before, it was still at a near-record number. FOIA backlogs decreased by six percentage points last year compared to 2006, but they are 20 percentage points higher than a decade ago. Overall, there was a 33 percent backlog in FOIA requests last year. The analysis, in its third year of publication following President Bush's Dec. 2005 executive order (PDF) calling for improved agency disclosure of information, comes less than a month after the Justice Department published its own FOIA study (PDF), which found that agencies made "remarkable improvements" in dealing with FOIA requests. The advocacy group's study pointed to one potential reason for the continued backlog: The number of FOIA workers fell by eight percent. "Clearly, some agencies do not have adequate funding to employ the number of FOIA officers needed," said Andy Alexander, Washington Bureau Chief at Cox Newspapers and one of the people who helped o ...