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Troubling Transparency
Author | : David E. Pozen,Michael Schudson |
Publsiher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2018-08-07 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780231545808 |
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Today, transparency is a widely heralded value, and the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is often held up as one of the transparency movement’s canonical achievements. Yet while many view the law as a powerful tool for journalists, activists, and ordinary citizens to pursue the public good, FOIA is beset by massive backlogs, and corporations and the powerful have become adept at using it for their own interests. Close observers of laws like FOIA have begun to question whether these laws interfere with good governance, display a deleterious anti-public-sector bias, or are otherwise inadequate for the twenty-first century’s challenges. Troubling Transparency brings together leading scholars from different disciplines to analyze freedom of information policies in the United States and abroad—how they are working, how they are failing, and how they might be improved. Contributors investigate the creation of FOIA; its day-to-day uses and limitations for the news media and for corporate and citizen requesters; its impact on government agencies; its global influence; recent alternatives to the FOIA model raised by the emergence of “open data” and other approaches to transparency; and the theoretical underpinnings of FOIA and the right to know. In addition to examining the mixed legacy and effectiveness of FOIA, contributors debate how best to move forward to improve access to information and government functioning. Neither romanticizing FOIA nor downplaying its real and symbolic achievements, Troubling Transparency is a timely and comprehensive consideration of laws such as FOIA and the larger project of open government, with wide-ranging lessons for journalism, law, government, and civil society.
Your Right to Federal Records
Author | : United States. Department of Justice. Federal Citizen Information Center |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 21 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Freedom of information |
ISBN | : 1612210678 |
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Use the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and the Privacy Act to obtain records from the federal government.
The Arkansas Freedom of Information Act
Author | : John J. Watkins,Richard J. Peltz-Steele,Robert Steinbuch |
Publsiher | : University of Arkansas Press |
Total Pages | : 597 |
Release | : 2017-02-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781682260395 |
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Since its first edition in 1988, The Arkansas Freedom of Information Act has become the standard reference for the bench, the bar, and journalists for guidance in interpreting and applying the state’s open-government law. This sixth edition, published fifty years after the passage of the Act in 1967, builds upon its predecessors, incorporating later legislative enactments, judicial decisions, and Attorney General’s opinions to present a synthesis of the law of access to public records and meetings in Arkansas.
The Impact of the Freedom of Information Act on Central Government in the UK
Author | : R. Hazell,B. Worthy,M. Glover |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2010-08-11 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780230281998 |
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Based on interviews with officials, requesters and journalists, as well as a survey of FOI requesters and a study of stories in the national media, this book offers a unique insight into how the Freedom of Information Act 2000 really works.
Public Government for Private People
Author | : Ontario. Commission on Freedom of Information and Individual Privacy |
Publsiher | : The Commission |
Total Pages | : 882 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Computers Access control |
ISBN | : IND:30000130686003 |
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Baseless
Author | : Nicholson Baker |
Publsiher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2020-07-21 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780735215771 |
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“Staggeringly good.” —Counterpunch A major new work, a hybrid of history, journalism, and memoir, about the modern Freedom of Information Act—FOIA—and the horrifying, decades-old government misdeeds that it is unable to demystify, from one of America's most celebrated writers Eight years ago, while investigating the possibility that the United States had used biological weapons in the Korean War, Nicholson Baker requested a series of Air Force documents from the early 1950s under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act. Years went by, and he got no response. Rather than wait forever, Baker set out to keep a personal journal of what it feels like to try to write about major historical events in a world of pervasive redactions, witheld records, and glacially slow governmental responses. The result is one of the most original and daring works of nonfiction in recent memory, a singular and mesmerizing narrative that tunnels into the history of some of the darkest and most shameful plans and projects of the CIA, the Air Force, and the presidencies of Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower. In his lucid and unassuming style, Baker assembles what he learns, piece by piece, about Project Baseless, a crash Pentagon program begun in the early fifties that aimed to achieve "an Air Force-wide combat capability in biological and chemical warfare at the earliest possible date." Along the way, he unearths stories of balloons carrying crop disease, leaflet bombs filled with feathers, suicidal scientists, leaky centrifuges, paranoid political-warfare tacticians, insane experiments on animals and humans, weaponized ticks, ferocious propaganda battles with China, and cover and deception plans meant to trick the Kremlin into ramping up its germ-warfare program. At the same time, Baker tells the stories of the heroic journalists and lawyers who have devoted their energies to wresting documentary evidence from government repositories, and he shares anecdotes from his daily life in Maine feeding his dogs and watching the morning light gather on the horizon. The result is an astonishing and utterly disarming story about waiting, bureaucracy, the horrors of war, and, above all, the cruel secrets that the United States government seems determined to keep forever from its citizens.
Breaking the Bargain
Author | : Donald Savoie |
Publsiher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2003-12-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781442659292 |
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Canada's machinery of government is out of joint. In Breaking the Bargain, Donald J. Savoie reveals how the traditional deal struck between politicians and career officials that underpins the workings of our national political and administrative process is today being challenged. He argues that the role of bureaucracy within the Canadian political machine has never been properly defined, that the relationship between elected and permanent government officials is increasingly problematic, and that the public service cannot function if it is expected to be both independent of, and subordinate to, elected officials. While the public service attempts to define its own political sphere, the House of Commons is also in flux: the prime minister and his close advisors wield ever more power, and cabinet no longer occupies the policy ground to which it is entitled. Ministers, who have traditionally been able to develop their own roles, have increasingly lost their autonomy. Federal departmental structures are crumbling, giving way to a new model that eschews boundaries in favour of sharing policy and program space with outsiders. The implications of this functional shift are profound, having a deep impact on how public policies are struck, how government operates, and, ultimately, the capacity for accountability.
The World s First Freedom of Information Act
Author | : Juha Mustonen,Anders Chydenius -säätiö |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 103 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Freedom of information |
ISBN | : 9529951922 |
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