Wednesday, December 5, 2012

FOIA reforms fall flat under ‘most transparent admin in history’

The vast majority of federal agencies have not updated their Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) regulations despite pledges by the Obama administration to be the most transparent in history, the National Security Archive reported Tuesday.
According to the National Security Archive’s audit, 62 of 99 government agencies have not updated their FOIA regulations since Attorney General Eric Holder directed them in a March 2009 FOIA memorandum to remove “unnecessary bureaucratic hurdles” to obtaining public records and err on the side of transparency.

Read more: http://freebeacon.com/unfree-information/

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