Justice Department Guide To The Freedom Of Information Act

Overview discussion, prepared by the legal staff of the Office of Information and Privacy, of the FOIA's exemptions, its law enforcement record exclusions, and its most important procedural aspects.

Prepared by several members of the Office of Information and Privacy's attorney and paralegal staff. Explains each provision of the 1966 act designed to allow any person access to records of any agency of the US national government unless such information falls under one of the nine exemptions or three special exclusions. The bulk of the treatment is concerned with those exemptions and exclusions, and includes references to legal decisions affecting them from the time the law went effect until 1993. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Overview discussion, prepared by the legal staff of the Office of Information and Privacy, of the FOIA's exemptions, its law enforcement record exclusions, and its most important procedural aspects.

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

An edited reprint of the Guide, issued by the U.S. Department of Justice. The Guide covers procedural requirements for filing a request under the Freedom of Information Act. Indexed by Igor I. Kavass. The Case List is an exact reprint of the original. Printed on acid-free paper. William S. Hein & Co., Inc., 1997

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