FOI Fee Fraud?

The Globe has an interesting article up about the prohibitive costs of government records requests.  According to the story, one Boston reporter was given an estimate of $6,600 by a large state agency in response to his requests to review the e-mails of several senior officials. The agency justified the price as the cost of [...]

DHS Databases & Speech

Comparative Case Studies of Radical Rhetoric, according to the government’s own description, “is a research effort funded by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Directorate of Science and Technology (S&T), Human Factors/Behavioral Sciences Division (HFD). The goal of the research project is to determine whether various characteristics of the rhetoric expressed by groups are related [...]

Of FOIA & Free Access

It’s a point of no contention to folks here at LAMP that court documents are and should be legally required to be in the public domain. But public domain currently means paying 8 cents a page to read docs on PACER — the federal judiciary’s Public Access to Court Electronic Records database. This law student [...]

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