Finally, the "most transparent White House ever" is living up to its claim, and it's just plain embarrassing for us all. When Barack Obama promised transparency, most of America thought he meant disclosing donations, broadcasting meetings, limiting lobbyists and generally opening the government to Americans. But this? Sigh. Until now, despite the promises, the Obama administration has been anything but transparent. In budget year 2009, federal agencies cited exemptions to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests 466,872 times, compared to the 312,683 exemptions cited by former President George W. Bush's administration in his final year. This nearly 50 percent increase in refusals occurred even though there was a decrease in actual information requests. So much for open government.
The state Freedom of Information Commission will hold an expedited hearing Wednesday in Hartford as to why state police shouldn't be forced to release documents detailing the federal immigration raid in New Haven four months ago. The state Department of Public Safety, in refusing to release a 10-page federal operational plan on the raid that it received May 29, cited federal Freedom of Information Act exemptions to support its decision to keep the material secret.
Civil Procedure Exemptions from Freedom of Information Act disclosure
When it comes to Freedom of Information Act requests, Virginians are best served when government invokes exemptions sparingly. They should be a scalpel, not a cudgel. That's a lesson the University of Virginia should heed as it deals with a document request related to climate researcher Michael Mann. Mann is a target of climate change deniers who believe his research into humanity's effects on the environment is at best mistaken and at worst deception. He conducted important climate research while at UVa.
The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 was enacted to protect the interests of employee benefit plan participants and their beneficiaries. Under ERISA, certain financial and other information concerning employee benefit plans is required to be made available, upon request. The Department of Labor and The Employee Benefits Security Administration make available online and through its Public Disclosure Room certain employee benefit plan documents and other materials required by ERISA, subject to the exemptions and exclusions contained in the Freedom of Information Act.
A federal judge on Wednesday ruled that White House visitor logs maintained by the U.S. Secret Service are agency records and, as a result, are subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act if not covered by one of the law's many exemptions. In a setback for the Obama administration, which had argued that the records did not have to be made public, U.S. District Judge Beryl A. Howell, in a 19-page opinion, sided with Judicial Watch, a Washington-based public watchdog organization, in a case challenging Secret Service arguments that the visitors' logs were presidential records and, as a result, exempt from public disclosure.
MORGANTOWN - West Virginia University has rejected a request for emails among university officials and football coaches in the month before coach Bill Stewart resigned. The university Tuesday refused a request filed by The Associated Press under the West Virginia Freedom of Information Act. It cited personnel issues and other legal exemptions.
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