Sentences with phrase «foia requests»

DHS consistently receives the largest number of FOIA requests of any federal department or agency, receiving almost 40 percent of all requests within the Federal Government.

The appendices include sample FOIA requests to the Department of Homeland Security (including USCIS, ICE, and CBP), the Department of State, and the Department of Justice; sample FOIA appeals and federal complaints; sample records requests to the Office of Refugee Resettlement and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); and many other resources for both private attorneys and nonprofit practitioners seeking records in immigration cases.

Staying on Top of FOIA Requests Responding to FOIA requests can be a full - time job Any attorney who works for a government agency is likely familiar with FOIA...

Exterro Orchestrated E-Discovery allows you to quickly respond to FOIA requests, drive consistency, transparency, and efficiency, while optimizing your e-discovery and information governance processes.

Our prosecutors also work with our police departments in responding to FOIA requests and subpoenas in order to ensure full compliance with the myriad of laws governing record production.

Declassification / FOIA / Privacy services to address openness initiatives; deliver timely responses to FOIA requests and supply tracking services; and support systematic and special case declassification reviews.

I was reading an opinion in HUDGINS V. I.R.S., (D.D.C. 1985) regarding the ruling that the government is not required to answer «questions disguised as FOIA requests.»

Like the other site, its purpose is to provide access to government documents unavailable elsewhere, most obtained through FOIA requests.

Almost 22 million FOIA requests were received in 2007, an increase of almost 2 % over last year.

«In recent months, an increasing number of our comment letters and filer responses to them are being released publicly through the FOIA process, but only to those persons who make FOIA requests for them.

The 25 departments and agencies that handle the bulk of FOIA requests failed to make a dent in their backlogs, although they received the fewest requests since reporting began in 1998.

The SEJ interviewed 55 reporters, finding that excessive delays in releasing information are common — with some FOIA requests taking more than a year to fulfill.

Some agencies decline to answer routine inquiries for documents such as Superfund reports and underground mine inspection reports, forcing reporters to file time - consuming FOIA requests for the information.

Get up to speed on freedom of the press issues and learn how to file successful FOIA requests.

Two new Web sites have similar missions: making secret and hard - to - find government documents, revealed through FOIA requests and other means, available to the public in order to promote government transparency.

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) has begun denying FOIA requests under the logic that if they provide the data to a defendant, the defendant can then defend themselves, and that is, apparently, bad.

Climate Science instead wants to thwart FOIA requests, made necessary themselves only because the Climate Science in question has not involved transparancy of its «materials and methods» to begin with.

(3) «-LCB- climategate emails -RCB- as far as I know showed no evidence of incorrect science and analysis, the worst thing being that some FOIA requests were sat on...»

My encounter with Mr. McIntyre's use of FOIA requests for «audit» purposes is not an isolated event.

They were caught red handed in climategate emails conspiring to avoid FOIA requests and blackball journals that published articles by skeptics.

-LSB-...] For much more detail on the Chief Scientist, the attorneys and the FOIA requests see Climate Audit post (Solomon's Divergence Problem).

«The NOAA scientists responded in good faith to the FOIA requests based on their understanding of the request and in accordance with the legal guidance provided in 2007,» Glackin said.

FOIA requests seeking disclosure of EPA records that could reveal a rigged climate science peer review process — and legal actions under the Information Quality Act seeking correction of resultant data corruption — could compel courts to reconsider their all - too - common practice of deferring to «agency discretion» on scientific and regulatory matters.

When I see accusations of NASA data manipulation coupled with refusal to honor FOIA requests and highly ideological, crude public statements like the above of key officials, then it looks like a pattern of unscientific behavior to me.

I would call almost 60 FOIA requests in just 5 days to CRU and the Met office as harassment.

EPA stonewalls and slow - walks FOIA requests and denies requests for correction and reconsideration.

This is a defense commonly employed against FOIA requests when seeking to withhold certain communications with, for example, paid consultants.

And then there is the inimitable EPA, which has responded promptly to 28 FOIA requests from Democrat politicians, while it has been unable to complete its response to any of four, count»em four, FOIA requests from GOP staff.

Question about FOIA requests to get emails.

Should FOIA requests be granted the «assumption of good faith», however conditioned or qualified?

He came to believe that the data he worked on with public money was his own and refused to allow anyone to see it, which precipitated the FOIA requests (cites follow).

Say the FOIA requests made to the U of VA by news organizations and self - appointed watchdogs for the emails of Michael Mann?

That correspondence will then become the object of subsequent FOIA requests unless they post those agreements.

FOIA notwitshtanding, (it's generally conceded that the unprecedented FOIA requests were mishandled at CRU) the entire contents of the CRU email server were never subject to FOIA, and the years of willful misinterpretation of them has been a travesty of the highest order.

Not only do they not take offence, but they repeat the lie that climate scientists are being burdened by FOIA requests.

It may get easier for you to obtain U.S government data through FOIA requests because of an executive order issue by the Obama administration today.

Were, as is implied in the emails, all those directly involved in handling FOIA requests part of an agreement to frustrate requests for data?

The destruction (or loss) of the data comes at a convenient time for the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) in East Anglia — permitting it to snub FoIA requests to see the data.»

As we know from the Climategate emails, Phil Jones and CRU scientists stonewalled FOIA requests for years to prevent independent researchers from checking their data and methodologies.

Leaking the CRU emails — for all we know the work of a genuine whistle blower — was the only way to (a) produce documents responsive to valid FOIA requests, (b) expose CRU's willful evasion of FOIA, and (c) subject CRU research products to the indispensable test of reproducibility.

When do we need to start filing the FOIA requests so that the truth about Steig and Shindell's methods can be determined?

Is the data contained in the hacked release more complete than the data you've obtained via FOIA requests through the official channels?

While the risk of legal attack on any individual scientist is small, there are actions scientists can take to help reduce the risk of attack, especially from invasive FOIA requests.

We defend climate scientists and their research by filing legal briefs in support of scientists who are subjected to unnecessary FOIA requests.

NOAA's news release on the IG report contains the following misrepresentation of NOAA's repudiation of FOI requests: The report questions the way NOAA handled a response to four FOIA requests in 2007.

Once W / B has root access, they could have easily grabbed whole directories and the hodge - podge structure of the documents folder is 1) A function of the hodge - podge way the CRUTeam did things 2) The slower, more tedious, work needed to examine and bleach the files (not with a simple shell script 3) Higher selectivity with an intention to give a spread of examples of what else one might find and 4) Help condition future FOIA requests so that the requests could be as specific as possible about the types of documents to ask for.

Reasoned like an individual contributor at a large company; with time limits being part of FOIA requests there is little doubt in my mind that separate, individual and parallel tasks within UEA were kicked off, i.e., a) the collection and collating of relevant files for the FOIA request and b) the discussions and meetings as to whether they were actually going to comply with the FOIA request, especially realizing some of the early e-mails and some of the more incriminating later e-mails were available from the server.

But that made no sense to me when I looked at my FOIA requests.

including how to obstruct or evade FOIA requests.

The team were complaining about the number of FOIA requests they were receiving so how about this scenario: