Sentences with phrase «foia as»

MT, I hope you're not trying to claim the Heartland docs (real and fake) were as subject to an FOIA as the CRU documents were.

They spent 10 + times as much effort to hide from FOIA as it would have taken to dump the data to portable media.

As you know, there are some out there who see this kind of FOIA as A) a fishing expedition that adds heaps of work to government offices and is otherwise inconsequential, B) aimed at promulgating fear and loathing more than enlightenment, C) a search for truth and progress.

I agree completely that use of FOIA as an intimidation tactic is to be denounced.

Not exact matches

If not for FOIA, we would all still be in the dark, as the Fed evidently wants.

The Fox Valley Park District makes every effort to comply with the State of Illinois Public Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), which states that all persons are entitled to full and complete information regarding the affairs of government and the official acts and policies of those who represent them as public officials and public employees.

Please submit your request to: Dave Mohr - FOIA Officer Lindenhurst Park District 2200 E. Grass Lake Road Lindenhurst, IL 60046 Phone: [phone] Fax: [phone] Email: [email protected] When submitting your written request, please be as specific as possible.

Following the issuance of the Report and Recommendation, Chief Magistrate Judge Mann was described as having poured «water on a drowning FOIA.»

To circumvent that influence, known as «publication bias,» Kirsch's team used the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to solicit records from the Food and Drug Administration.

But when I used FOIA to request these documents (as well as several other documents related to how NIH manages conflicts of interest), NIH refused to turn them over — not even redacted versions — as they're required to do by law.

Last year Harris Corp., the Melbourne, Fla., company that makes the majority of cell site simulators, went so far as to petition the Federal Communications Commission to block a FOIA request for user manuals for some of the company's products.

As per Weingarten: «Over a year ago, the Washington [DC] Teachers» Union filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to see the data from the school district's IMPACT [teacher] evaluation system — a system that's used for big choices, like the firing of 563 teachers in just the past four years, curriculum decisions, school closures and more [see prior posts about this as related to the IMPACT program hereAs per Weingarten: «Over a year ago, the Washington [DC] Teachers» Union filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to see the data from the school district's IMPACT [teacher] evaluation system — a system that's used for big choices, like the firing of 563 teachers in just the past four years, curriculum decisions, school closures and more [see prior posts about this as related to the IMPACT program hereas related to the IMPACT program here].

Furthermore, the FOIA Coordinator shall include within each FOIA Notice the date in which the FOIA request is received as prescribed by the Act, as well as the date (s) in which a response is due, including both a response due within the five (5) days prescribed by the Act as well as the date in which a response is due pursuant to the ten (10) day extension; and each administrator shall have two (2) business days to respond to the FOIA Coordinator in one of the following ways: 1) stating that the documents do not exist; 2) stating that some or all of the documents exist and by providing those documents located to the FOIA Coordinator; or 3) stating that a ten (10) day extension is required to search, review, and copy the documents requested.

A records charge invoice could be included as part of the FOIA Coordinator's response.

«In her testimony to the Education Committee opposing SB 1096 in March, Achievement First President Dacia Toll complained that «it would be incredibly burdensome to CMOs, as FOIA compliance would significantly distract, undermine, and obstruct non-profit CMO resources and manpower from its most important work: providing high - quality support to charter schools, students and staff.»

The chronology and description of their information request is detailed in the complaint, and the chronology of the attempt to codify the FOIA exemption (under Mayor Bowser) follows (also, as per the above - mentioned lawyer (s)-RRB-:

From 2000 - 2006, Ron worked as a lawyer with FTA's General Law Division, handling Federal Court litigation, and issues related to transit security, transit finance, Federal grants, and FOIA.

The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is a Federal law that gives you the right to access any U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) records unless DOT reasonably foresees that the release of the information in those records would harm an interest protected by one or more of the nine exemptions (such as classified national security, business proprietary, personal privacy, investigative documents) or release is prohibited by law.

FOIA Online may streamline and lower the costs of FOIA processing activities as well as provide an electronic records repository for released records, support the referral and transfer of FOIA requests and responsive documents, and facilitate other processing needs.

The DOT recognizes the potential value and benefits of participating in a system such as FOIA Online.

The DOT FOIA Officer also serves as the FOIA Officer for OST.

The Department's Chief FOIA Officer provides high - level oversight and support to the Department's FOIA programs, and recommends adjustments to agency practices, personnel, and funding as may be necessary to improve FOIA administration, including through this annual Chief FOIA Officer Report submitted to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).

This office hosts a monthly DOT - wide meeting for FOIA offices within DOT and coordinates the overall FOIA annual report for the Department, as well as the Chief FOIA Officer report.

FRA uses PII in CCM to contact individuals requesting responses, track status on responses and work associated with requests, and maintain records on some types of requests, such as FOIA requests.

This chapter provides updates on specific initiatives identified in the previous Plans, as well as updates on the information dissemination requirements DOT is complying with related to FOIA, records management, data.gov, recovery.gov and USAspending.gov among others.

As we previously reported, PBLN sent a FOIA request to Boston Animal Control (BAC) which can be read in it's entirety here.

• Protection of the identity of licensees to protect companies and individuals using identity and contact information for improper purposes, such as exemptions from Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and similar laws.

As of August 15, 2017, we have received no documents from FOIA per these requests.

«Long delays in processing federal FOIA requests already hinder the public and journalists in obtaining information that's essential to ensuring that government is truly working for the people,» says Doug Haddix, executive director of Investigative Reporters and Editors, as quoted in National Geographic.

Some other options though A) The FOIA request didn't contain relevant or correct information so the response doesn't actually pertain anything related to SC (As far as I know a copy of the original request has never been shown, so no - one commenting actually knows what information was used to guide the searchAs far as I know a copy of the original request has never been shown, so no - one commenting actually knows what information was used to guide the searchas I know a copy of the original request has never been shown, so no - one commenting actually knows what information was used to guide the search.)

Re # 337 In answer to your question about the need to record telephone calls, as far as the UK is concerned, there is no requirement to do so in order to generate information that might get requested under FOIA.

By the way, as an adjunct to our whistleblower practice, PEER makes extensive use of FOIA to force disclosure of matters other wise buried in agency cubicles.

Many FOIA requests of green groups over the years could be cast as such.

As another FOIA working through the system also targets.

Unfair» might be misrepresenting my earlier post (criticizing McIntyre's never - ending accusations of misconduct and his ultimately futile attempts to use FOIA / EIR to get hold of unpublished work) as a criticism of any specific analysis, despite the opening line being «Steve McIntyre is free to do any analysis he wants on any data he can find» and not mentioning his results at all.

Here is why I think it matters: 1) Actively subverting FOIA intent 2) Admitting a) Hockey stick flawed & Steve is right, b) hide decline was dishonest, c) climate models are pretty bad, and d) cherry picking results like Japan hurricanes to emphasize a pre-ordained message 3) Trying to manipulate (and probably succeeding) who gets to be IPCC author 4) Trying to manage the message (PR concern) 5) Viewing science results as helping or hurting «the cause» — Mann especially All the above subverts the official messages of «overwhelming consencus» and «science is settled», world's best scientists just doing their science, and that it would be «absurd» to see a conspiracy.

I should have let foia's stated motivation stand as it is.

And the deletion of emails in response to FOIA is actually illegal (as if it were enforced).

FOIA is sometimes more effective than a Congressional subpoena as several current scandals have demonstrated.

SEJers heard from top experts in environmental law and the science of communicating to news consumers, as well as receiving training in FOIA, databases and key digital storytelling tools at a four - day workshop in Dallas, held alongside Earth Day Texas.

In 2009 there were as you note a flurry of FOIA.

As far as the FOIA requests, if they had been up front about the first few, there would not have been the hundreds they have now and if they had admitted the Mann data was crap, none of this would have happened, including the climategate e-mail releases I would imaginAs far as the FOIA requests, if they had been up front about the first few, there would not have been the hundreds they have now and if they had admitted the Mann data was crap, none of this would have happened, including the climategate e-mail releases I would imaginas the FOIA requests, if they had been up front about the first few, there would not have been the hundreds they have now and if they had admitted the Mann data was crap, none of this would have happened, including the climategate e-mail releases I would imagine.

It has been confirmed that the British FOIA was not followed fully but the responsibilities are not as clear.

As the story unfolded Tom Fuller and I grumbled about with the coverage of the FOIA story.

I'm rather an amateur at FOIA, but perhaps someone more knowledgeable might venture an opinion on this: Would it be possible to FOIA David Palmer specifically for email correspondence to or from him involving the words «non-academic» with the specific purpose of building up a portfolio of material connected with his own dereliction of duty as an FOIA officer?

Likewise, if the part of the theory that says this was put together as part of the review to Steve McIntyre's FOIA request, exactly what contained with FOIA2009.zip, aside from the embarrassing conspiracy perpetrated by CRU employees, were the CRU officials trying to protect by denying the request.

Some Senators wonder how they can trust Gina McCarthy to be a «straight shooter» as EPA administrator given the agency's FOIA failures, reliance on secret data in rulemakings, and use of private email accounts to conduct official business.

Brian Summers, the Registrar and Secretary of UEA responded forcibly to Mr Smith's 22 January press statement, which asserted that UEA had not dealt with FOIA requests «as they should have been under the legislation».

Stop Geoengineering Minnesota has brought suit in United States District Court for the District of Columbia against the Department of Commerce, as well as against NOAA, for the failure to respond to requests for information regarding weather modification under a Freedom of Information (FOIA) request.

has become hard to stay abreast of — but given what we know of Jones» enthusiasm for ingenious ways of frustrating the FOIA, it looks rather as though: