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West Virginia Freedom of Information Act W.Va. Code §§ 29B-1-1 to 29B-1-7 1977 [60] Any person Wisconsin Wisconsin Open Records Law Wisconsin Statute §§ 19.21 to 19.39 1981 [61] Any person Wyoming Wyoming Sunshine Law Wyo. Stat. §§ 16-4-201 to 16-4-205 1983 [62] Any person District of Columbia Freedom of Information Act [63]
Freedom of information laws allow access by the general public to data held by national governments and, where applicable, by state and local governments. The emergence of freedom of information legislation was a response to increasing dissatisfaction with the secrecy surrounding government policy development and decision making. [1]
The nonprofit Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas will explore these transparency issues and protection of First Amendment rights at its annual conference Sept. 13, in Austin.
The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA / ˈ f ɔɪ j ə / FOY-yə), 5 U.S.C. § 552, is the United States federal freedom of information law that requires the full or partial disclosure of previously unreleased or uncirculated information and documents controlled by the U.S. government upon request. The act defines agency records subject to ...
The top priority for the lame-duck session of Congress should be to revise the Electoral Count Act of 1887, writes Erwin Chemerinsky. | Opinion
Conservative Member of Parliament David Maclean introduced the bill [1] to ensure that MPs correspondence is exempt from freedom of information laws such as the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Maclean said of his Bill: If someone approached me and asked for a letter sent to the police or a council about a constituent, I would tell them to go away.
Freedom of information (or information freedom) also refers to the protection of the right to freedom of expression with regard to the Internet and information technology. Freedom of information may also concern censorship in an information technology context, i.e. the ability to access Web content, without censorship or restrictions.
And although they still show up at the WTO in Geneva, they have made it all too clear to the rest of the world that, in the view of the U.S., the WTO is no longer central to world trade, and that ...