Outdated Agency Regs Undermine Freedom of Information *Washington, DC, December 4, 2012 –* A government-wide Freedom of Information Act audit by the National Security Archive has found that sixty-two out of ninety-nine government agencies have not updated their FOIA regulations since US Attorney General Eric Holder issued his March 19, 2009 FOIA memorandum <http://www.justice.gov/ag/foia-memo-march2009.pdf> to all heads of executive departments instructing them to make discretionary FOIA releases of documents that might be technically exempt from release (especially with respect to the "deliberative" b(5) exemption<http://nsarchive.wordpress.com/2011/03/18/document-friday-cheat-sheet-for-discretionary-foia-releases/>), to proactively post records of interest to the public, and to remove "unnecessary bureaucratic hurdles." O http://bit.ly/VocBax Source: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB405/ See if people are clicking on this link: http://bit.ly/VocBax+ Try the bitly.com sidebar to see who is talking about a page on the web: http://bitly.com/pages/sidebar -- Peter Kurilecz CRM CA [log in to unmask] Richmond, Va http://twitter.com/RAINbyte http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/RAINbyte/ http://paper.li/RAINbyte/rainbyte http://pinterest.com/pakurilecz/archives/ http://pinterest.com/pakurilecz/records-management/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/peterakurilecz Information not relevant for my reply has been deleted to reduce the electronic footprint and to save the sanity of digest subscribers List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance To unsubscribe from this list, click the below link. If not already present, place UNSUBSCRIBE RECMGMT-L or UNSUB RECMGMT-L in the body of the message. mailto:[log in to unmask]
