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The above document, dated to January 7, 2021, was obtained through a FOIA request filed by the US nonprofit organization Property of the People. FOIA [link] — PropertyOfThePeople (@PropOTP) November 29, 2021. Source Property of the People.
All communication is end-to-end encrypted, and the app is open source. With this in mind, the army staff sent an email at the end of December to instruct all commanders and chiefs of staff to use the Threema messenger app for business communication with private smartphones from now on.” ” reported the Swiss Tagesanzeiger.
This is cross-posted from The FOIA Ombudsman. The latest Records Management Self-Assessment (RMSA) shows that the COVID-19 pandemic remained a challenge for agencies in 2021, and that top agency FOIA and records management officers are increasingly working together.
On 11 March 2020, the ICO brought its first successful conviction under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (“ FOIA ”). A clerk at Whitchurch Town Council admitted to the criminal offence of blocking records with the intention of preventing disclosure, in breach of section 77 of FOIA. Facts of the matter.
In addition to providing services that help Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requesters and Federal agencies in resolving disputes, one of the goals of the Office of Government Information Services (OGIS) is to prevent FOIA disputes from arising in the first place. OGIS is the Federal FOIA Ombudsman.
Motherboard received the brochure as part of a FOIA request to the Irvine Police Department in California. Special Services Group, a company that sells surveillance tools to the FBI, DEA, ICE, and other US government agencies, has had its secret sales brochure published.
This is a closed repository with no reading room; all external requests for information are subject to approval by the Communications and Legal staff. The second speaker was Nate Jones, Director of the FOIA Project for the National Security Archive. Jones provided several suggestions, including: increasing funding for NARA.
Complexity of Data : Some requests involve extensive research and the retrieval of various data types, especially with new applications for communicating, making fulfillment time-consuming and resource-intensive. The post What are the Growing Challenges with Public Records/FOIA Requests? appeared first on CloudNine.
On March 1, 2011, the United States Supreme Court issued a unanimous ruling in Federal Communications Commission v. finding that corporations are not entitled to “personal privacy” and therefore may not invoke Exemption 7(C) of the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”). AT&T Inc.
By Rick Clark In the two separate worlds of legal processes and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)/public records requests, eDiscovery technology and standard workflows have emerged as powerful ways to streamline operations and ensure compliance. Search and review processes are central to both FOIA requests and eDiscovery workflows.
The United States did not officially have an open records law on a national level until 1966 when the Federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) was enacted. FOIA, for example, lists nine exceptions and several exclusions; some states have far more. Many other countries have their versions of open records laws, as do all 50 states.
The Federal Register comment process allows the public to communicate with us about their questions or concerns on a specific schedule of interest. This means the records will still be available for FOIA and other retrieval needs just as they were prior to the Department’s submission of this new proposed schedule.
What percentage of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests actually result in receiving all of the information requested? Last year, Federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation jumped 26 percent over the previous year. In other words, only 22 percent of FOIA requestors got everything they asked for. 75 percent?
” Communication Law and Policy (15): 203–29. [8] “FoIA in the Age of ‘Open Gov’: An Analysis of the Performance of the Freedom of Information Act under the Obama and Bush Administrations.” Vinegar: Testing Compliance-gaining Theories in the Context of Freedom of Information Laws.” 8] Michener, G.,
million; received 155,000 complaints relating to nuisance marketing calls and spam SMS text messages; issued its first monetary penalty for a breach of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 (“PECR”), against Tetrus Telecoms in November 2012; and. The ICO also: issued 23 penalties, totaling over £2.6
In response to comments, the regulators added a clarification the notice requirement “does not apply to any scheduled maintenance, testing, or software update previously communicated to a banking organization customer.”
Communications and Content Creator Perspective on Social Media Records Management. Laura works closely with leadership in communicating their priorities as heads of the agency and the agency’s priorities. The social media people and records people need to communicate and have a plan BEFORE a big change occurs. Key Takeaways.
FOIA and the EIR now face similar challenges.? They need to be investigators, negotiators, they need to be information seekers, they need to be communicators. Gill says that while these two areas of ICO business are separate, she expects more activity at their interface. ?I But FOI is just one part of what the ICO as a whole does.
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Some records might be withheld or released in redacted form for various reasons: to preserve the secrecy of grand jury proceedings; to protect the personal privacy of living individuals; to protect the identities of confidential sources; and to protect confidential communications within the White House.
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