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The Holder Memo is part of series of policy memos on how federal agencies should apply FOIA exemptions. Beginning in 1977 with Attorney General Griffin Bell, and continued by Attorney General William French Smith in 1981 and Attorney General Janet Reno in 1993, U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced how the executive branch should approach FOIA, its application, and DOJ's defense of ...
The existing law states that all public information is open except for the cases established by the law and the information covered by privacy rights or commercial secret. In Georgia, anyone is entitled to request public information. The applicants do not have to specify the reasons for their request.
For example, Colorado has the Colorado Open Records Act (CORA); in New Jersey the law is known as the Open Public Records Act (OPRA). There are many degrees of accessibility to public records between states, with some making it fairly easy to request and receive documents, and others with many exemptions and restricted categories of documents.
The Georgia Archives is the official repository of archival records for the U.S. state of Georgia, located in Morrow. Together, the Georgia Archives and the Georgia Capitol Museum form the Georgia Division of Archives and History, part of the office of the Georgia Secretary of State. The primary purpose of the Georgia Archives is to identify ...
On April 12, the Pennsylvania Office of Open Records sided with the USA TODAY Network in a public information request standoff with the local government. Fulton County officials have been given 30 ...
Administrative law of the United States. The Freedom of Information Act ( FOIA / ˈfɔɪjə / FOY-yə ), 5 U.S.C. § 552, is the United States federal freedom of information law that requires the full or partial disclosure of previously unreleased or uncirculated information and documents controlled by the U.S. government upon request.
Rewrite of KY open records bill is victory for open government, participatory democracy | Opinion. Amye Bensenhaver. February 18, 2024 at 9:47 AM.
Amye Bensenhaver, a former deputy attorney general specializing in the Kentucky Open Records Act and current co-director of the Kentucky Open Government Coalition, celebrated the news.