Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)

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ICE Releases Documents Detailing Electronic Surveillance Problems . . . And Then Demands Them Back A Year Later

Jennifer Lynch | Electronic Frontier Foundation | November 5, 2012

This is a first for us in all of EFF's history of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation—Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has demanded we return records it gave us more than a year ago. [...] [It] seems that ICE simply wants to stymie further FOIA requests from EFF as we try to get answers about the government's electronic surveillance procedures. Read More »

Internal Emails Show FDA, Industry Jointly Framed 'Cures' Device Language

Joe Williams | Inside Health Policy | December 10, 2015

FDA and the largest medical device lobbying group worked together to develop proposed legislative language for most of the medical device provisions included in the House-passed 21st Century Cures bill, one of the largest FDA reform bills to pass the House in recent years, and are developing a synchronized regulatory strategy for the Senate version, according to internal emails and documents obtained by Inside Health Policy through the Freedom of Information Act...

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Judge Orders U.S. To Release Aaron Swartz’s Secret Service File

Kevin Poulsen | Wired | July 8, 2013

A federal judge in Washington, D.C. on Friday ordered the government to promptly start releasing thousands of pages of Secret Service documents about the late activist and coder Aaron Swartz, following months of roadblocks and delays. Read More »

Judge Tells Homeland Security To Shut Up And Release Aaron Swartz's File

Mike Masnick | Techdirt | July 9, 2013

After Aaron Swartz's suicide, Kevin Poulsen filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the Department of Homeland Security, asking for the Secret Service's file on Aaron Swartz, since it was the Secret Service that handled the bulk of the investigation. Read More »

Librarians Are Continuing To Defend Open Access To The Web As A Public Service

Timothy Geigner | TechDirt | December 18, 2014

Librarians have built up quite a reputation for activism in all the right ways...These stances occasionally put them at odds with some in the community that they serve, perhaps most notably with parents who have pushed for restrictions on internet access within libraries...

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Lost To History: Missing War Records Complicate Benefit Claims By Iraq, Afghanistan Veterans

Peter Sleeth and Hal Bernton | ProPublica | November 9, 2012

The loss of field records — after-action write-ups, intelligence reports and other day-to-day accounts from the war zones — has far-reaching implications. It has complicated efforts by soldiers like DeLara to claim benefits. And it makes it harder for military strategists to learn the lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan, two of the nation's most protracted wars.

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Medsphere Introduces OpenVista NoteAssist to Transform Clinical Documentation Process

Press Release | Medsphere | August 25, 2015

Medsphere Systems Corporation...today introduced OpenVista NoteAssist™, a new clinical documentation tool. To give clinicians greater flexibility and control, NoteAssist streamlines the process of compiling patient data and incorporating it into various types of documentation such as progress notes and discharge summaries by remembering user preferences and text input between both user sessions and individual notes. Using NoteAssist, clinicians can read and create documents on the desktop or on the go via iPad.

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MIT Delays The Release Of Aaron Swartz's Secret Service File

Abby Ohlheiser | The Atlantic Wire | July 18, 2013

A couple of weeks ago, it looked like the federal government would (finally) start releasing what amounts to thousands of pages of documents pertaining to the Secret Service's investigation into Aaron Swartz. [...] Read More »

MIT Moves To Intervene In Release Of Aaron Swartz’s Secret Service File

Kevin Poulson | Wired | July 18, 2013

Lawyers representing MIT are filing a motion to intervene in my FOIA lawsuit over thousands of pages of Secret Service documents about the late activist and coder Aaron Swartz. Read More »

More Aggressive Oversight Of Agency FOIA Compliance Is Needed, GAO Says

Joseph Marks | Nextgov | September 10, 2013

The government ombudsman for evaluating agencies’ compliance with the Freedom of Information Act should be more aggressive, a congressional auditor said on Tuesday. Read More »

Netflix Vs. Healthcare.Gov

Josephine Wolff | Future Tense | August 28, 2014

What could possibly have motivated the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to refuse to release even a single document about the healthcare.gov site’s security in response to a Freedom of Information Act request submitted by the Associated Press? The AP announced that its request had been refused last week and, by way of explanation, cited a statement from CMS spokesman Aaron Albright that “releasing this information would potentially cause an unwarranted risk to consumers’ private information.”...

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Newly Released Drone Records Reveal Extensive Military Flights In US

Jennifer Lynch | Electronic Frontier Foundation | December 5, 2012

Today EFF posted several thousand pages of new drone license records and a new map that tracks the location of drone flights across the United States. These records, received as a result of EFF’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), come from state and local law enforcement agencies, universities and—for the first time—three branches of the U.S. military... Read More »

Obama Administration Cites 'National Security' More Than Ever To Censor, Deny Records

Jack Gillium and Ted Bridis | Huffington Post | March 17, 2014

The Obama administration more often than ever censored government files or outright denied access to them last year under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, according to a new analysis of federal data by The Associated Press.

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Open Government Partnership Marks First Anniversary

Kedar Pavgi | Nextgov | September 21, 2012

A year ago, President Obama and 46 other heads of state launched the Open Government Partnership, an initiative designed to increase transparency within governments around the world. The group’s declaration said that all adherent countries would [do the following]: Read More »

OpenFDA: Innovative Initiative Opens Door To Wealth Of FDA’s Publicly Available Data

Taha Kass-Hout | openFDA | June 2, 2014

OpenFDA is specifically designed to make it easier for developers, researchers, and the public to access and use the many large, important, health data sets collected by the agency.

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