Sentences with phrase «from foia»

The GWPF's charitable status allows its donors to be protected from the FOIA.

They're claiming they're exempt from FOIA and Pennsylvania's Right to Know Law.

But, so the routine goes, usually, until we sue to overturn the claim that these documents aren't government records, but UN et al. records free from FOIA.

The accompanying note from FOIA, perhaps reveals a different motive, one that I very much relate to:

This is a historical summary, that shows both past and present context of Climategate and Michael Mann's legal fight to keep his emails from University of Virgina a secret from FOIA requests.

Guest post by James Padgett There have been several «defenses» to the rather damning emails in the latest release from FOIA.

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

Climategate initially threw mud at the CRU temperature record by inference from the FOIA refusals, and that mud stayed through Copenhagen, and in fact until BEST came along to exonerate the data.

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

Note: Personal privacy information has been redacted from the FOIA and correspondence logs (FOIA Exemption 6).

On June 2, 2015, the permanent legislation exempting educator evaluations from FOIA is placed in the DC budget bill «at the request of the Mayor.»

MuckRock regularly shares interesting war stories from the FOIA front.

Virginia law exempts more than 100 types of documents from FOIA requests, including personnel and health records, contract negotiations, and certain proprietary information.

Russell said that CRU did feel under siege from FOIA requests.

He did not shield public records from FOIA by routing official communication through a private server in his basement.

Not exact matches

A senior State Department official requested the FBI re-review that email to determine whether it was in fact classified or whether it might be protected from release under a different FOIA exemption.

(In response to a Freedom of Information Act request from Vox, a FOIA officer at the CDC stated on November 28 that it has not received these records.)

Jan. 2 - Miner requests feasibility study from interim SU Chancellor Eric Spina, who says he will not provide the document, «which we are working to keep out of public disclosure through FOIA.»

The plaintiffs allege that USDA violated the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) earlier this month when it removed thousands of animal welfare inspection reports and other records from a publicly accessible website.

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.

I put in a FOIA request for records of any such consultations from NIH.

Mann successfully blocked that, only to be hit with a FOIA request from a conservative think tank.

Dr. Soon's grants came from the Koch brothers, ExxonMobil, Southern Company, and the American Petroleum Institute, among others, according to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests from Greenpeace to the Smithsonian Institution, Dr. Soon's employer.

Disgruntled vendors filed FOIA requests to get their hands on internal emails, including some memorable (if not family - friendly) missives from Doherty about the «dirtbag» publishers who were pressuring state and local officials to use Reading First funds to pay for their discredited, ineffective whole - language programs.

Legislators thankfully recognized this, and after listening to thoughtful testimony from charter leaders and the Connecticut Association of Non-Profits, ultimately rejected a blanket application of FOIA to CMOs.

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 here].

If the FOIA Coordinator denies a request, the FOIA Coordinator will explain the reasons for denying the request, that is, either the public record is exempt from disclosure or the public record does not exist and will inform the requesting party of the right to appeal the denial to the Webberville Community Schools Board or seek judicial review.

The labor cost for the time spent searching, examining, reviewing and deleting / separating exempt from nonexempt information will be charged when the cost to respond to the FOIA request is unreasonably high.

In addition, Webberville Community Schools may charge the labor cost for searching, examining, reviewing, or redacting exempt information from the documents when the FOIA request seeks several records, requires a search of numerous records or a search of records stored in different locations or mediums, or requires review and redaction of exempt material.

«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.»

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.

If you have concerns after receiving an initial response from the appropriate FOIA Requester Service Center, you may contact the FOIA Public Liaison.

Unfortunately, Student Marketmeasure's FOIA request for a data extract from the National Student Loan Data System (NSLDS) was denied in the spring of 2007 for the first time in fifteen years and their appeal of the denial was denied in January 2009.

On June 30, 2017, NCLC submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking communications from senior department employees concerning potential or current litigation over the Borrower Defense Regulations, including communications with representatives of CAPPS and Career Education Colleges and Universities, both of which represent the for - profit college sector.

• 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.

Since removal of the documents from teh USDA website, Animal Folks has made weekly data requests to FOIA for this data.

On August 14, 2017, District Judge William H. Orrick dismissed the lawsuit against the USDA for removing tens of thousands of animal welfare records from the agency's website «on the grounds that FOIA does not provide a remedy to enforce the government's obligation to publish certain types of records.»

* A request for all documentation pertaining to these facilities was requested under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and will be published upon receipt from the USDA.

In Untitled (History), Glenn Ligon's FOIA drawings (2011), Johanna Calle's Version Official (2008) and Nasrin Tabatabai and Babak Afrassiabi's Letters That Go Folded Into Shredder (2008 - 11) all touch upon the deletion of historical information from the public.

Even FOIA would require release of the internal discussions much less a request from Congress.

To get a better insight into what «FOIA» searched for, read, and thought was interesting enough to redact personal chat from, search for:

NASA has had so many opportunities to take the moral high ground, but it's obvious from both the climategate emails and these other FOIA requests that the only person behaving in a calm, considered manner is McIntyre.

ClimateGate was about scientists plotting to keep public information away from the public by not complying with FOIA requests.

If that's their response to the Congressional Committee which provides their funding, how do you think they'd respond to a FOIA request from the public for pretty much the same info?

Subsequent to Jones» March 4 claim that «he had not received any specific training on DPA / FoIA / EIR issues from the UEA», there was a March 30 interview with FOI officials Palmer and Colam - French, who described FOI training programs for UEA staff.

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.

Hopefully, we can avoid being crushed by the avalanche of FOIA request responses from the federal climate science community.

«Based on our interviews of the two NOAA OGC attorneys, we followed - up with the Co-Chair and her supervisor, both of whom again told us that their handling of the aforementioned FOIA requests was based on advice they had received from these two specific attorneys.

But the American Tradition Institute is trying to extract Mann's e-mails from UVa, using the FOIA.

From there, the case will likely begin its ascent up the appeals court ladder and is poised to make law on how Virginia institutions may use FOIA to withhold from some and give to othFrom there, the case will likely begin its ascent up the appeals court ladder and is poised to make law on how Virginia institutions may use FOIA to withhold from some and give to othfrom some and give to others.