Freedom Of Information Act Guide And Privacy Act Overview 1996

The "Overview of the Privacy Act of 1974," prepared by the Department of Justice's Office of Privacy and Civil Liberties (OPCL), is a discussion of the Privacy Act's disclosure prohibition, its access and amendment provisions, and its agency recordkeeping requirements. Tracking the provisions of the Act itself, the Overview provides reference to, and legal analysis of, court decisions interpreting the Act's provisions.

Learn how these two important pieces of legislation -- the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and the Privacy Act of 1974 -- can affect your business, as well as individual citizens. Includes: discretionary disclosure and waiver; fees and fee waivers; litigation considerations; reverse FOIA and much more. Contains the full texts of both access statutes, as well as congressional references, Justice Department materials and non-government publications. A must for every business library!

Contains an overview discussion of the Freedom of Information Act's (FOIA) exemptions, its law enforcement record exclusions, and its most important procedural aspects. 2009 edition. Issued biennially. Other related products: Report of the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy, Pursuant to Public Law 236, 103d Congress can be found here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/052-071-01228-1 Overview of the Privacy Act of 1974, 2015 Edition can be found here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/027-000-01429-1

Use the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and the Privacy Act to obtain records from the federal government.