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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 Holder Memo is part of series of policy memos on how federal agencies should apply FOIA exemptions. Beginning in 1977 with Attorney General Griffin Bell, and continued by Attorney General William French Smith in 1981 and Attorney General Janet Reno in 1993, U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced how the executive branch should approach FOIA, its application, and DOJ's defense of ...
Flawed as it may be, the U.S. Freedom of Information Act became a model in transparency for other countries to follow. ... France passed a freedom of information law in 1978, but "the law has so ...
Slovakia passed the Freedom of Information Act in May 2000 (Num. law: 211/2000 Z. z.). Under the law, everybody can demand information from state institutions, organisations, from municipalities, individuals and legal entities financed by the public budget. [124]
Freedom of Information Act may refer to the following legislations in different jurisdictions which mandate the national government to disclose certain data to the general public upon request: Freedom of Information Act (United States) of 1966; Freedom of Information Act 1982, the Australian act; Freedom of Information Act 2000, the UK act
The bills would expand Michigan FOIA to cover the governor, the lieutenant governor and the Legislature. All had been exempt since the original law passed in the 1970s.
Freedom of Information Act; 83rd Illinois General Assembly; Citation: 5 ILCS 140/1 et seq. Public Act 83-1013: Passed: June 28, 1983: Signed by: Governor James R. Thompson (after amendatory veto agreed to by the General Assembly)
Passed the Senate on July 26, 1950 (Passed) Passed the House on August 7, 1950 (Passed, in lieu of H.R. 9129) ... Freedom of Information Act (United States)