Sentences with phrase «of foia»

Upon receiving any request for information from The Money Advice Service or any relevant statutory authority, you shall transfer all requested information to The Money Advice Service as soon as practicable after receipt and in any event within any reasonable time period specified by The Money Advice Service and provide all necessary assistance as reasonably requested by The Money Advice Service to enable The Money Advice Service to respond to a request for information within the time for compliance set out in section 10 of the FOIA or regulation 5 of the Environmental Information Regulations 2004.
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.
We disagree, however, that most protected health information will not come within Exemption 6 of FOIA.
See the discussion above under «Relationship to Other Federal Laws» for our review of FOIA.
See the discussion of FOIA and the Privacy Act in the «Relationship to Other Federal Laws» section of the preamble.
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...
Peninsula Business Services Ltd v Information Commissioner and SoS for Justice and Lord Chancellor [2014] UKUT 284 (AAC) Successfully represented the IC in this appeal concerning the absolute exemption in s 32 of FOIA for court records.
It will provide a database of FOIA responses and other government documents contributed by a number of public interest organizations.
Actually you know I think the news story that you're really going to start seeing in the next couple of weeks is this: As a result of a FOIA [Freedom of Information Act] request through a major news organization, somebody asked, «Who are the lawyers around this country representing detainees down there,» and you know what, it's shocking,» he said.
I coordinate strategy, handle administrative appeals, and litigate all manner of FOIA and state public records act matters.
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 remarkable thing about the district court's opinion (which was adopted by the court of appeals) is that it awarded extraordinary equitable relief under the FOIA without ever finding that a violation of the FOIA had occurred.
The Commission said, in effect, that the absolute exemption to disclosure at section 32 (2) of FOIA was the end of the story, while Kennedy argued that Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights imposed a positive obligation of disclosure on public authorities, particularly when the requester was a «public watchdog» like the press, and that s32 (2) should be read down accordingly to require disclosure in the circumstances (I paraphrase).
My encounter with Mr. McIntyre's use of FOIA requests for «audit» purposes is not an isolated event.
In conclusion, I believe that Jones» actions regarding the AR4 emails are simply indefensible and arguing with the denialists over the legal technicalities of FOIA law is simply giving them more ammunition.
To not respond to a request for that information would seem to be hiding behind the letter of FOIA rules (we shall see what the IC says), rather than responding in its spirit; if the information exists at all, it is surely in the public interest for it to be made public, to improve the quality of the debate about climate change policy.
According to the closeout memo, the OIG concluded that this section of the FOIA did not apply in this case because the NSF is not a rules - making body but rather devoted to research and education.
The portion of the FOIA that Inhofe specifically asked about (2 CFR § 251.36 (d)-RRB- is applicable to any research «that was used by the Federal Government in developing an agency action that has the force and effect of law.»
Say, friends, since «frankswifthack» is such a devotee of pursuing of FOIA's identity to the ends of the Earth, imagine what would happen if he stopped for just a moment to read a few of the emails.
In the case of Clarke's the University claim he deleted all his emails on the Russell Review soon after its report was published and the Review «consolidated» its documents at an undisclosed location — possibly outside the reach of the FoIA.
My impression is based on the data presented at CA I believe regarding an FOIA request (which was granted) for dispositions of FOIA requests at UEA — almost all were denied, even the easy ones.
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.
The story should be about official corruption and obstruction of FOIA.
Since the Hadley CRU is a UK government - funded organization, they are subject to the UK - equivalent of FOIA (Freedom of Information Act).
That's what's being discussed — the coincident timing between the processing of the FOIA request and the Copenhagen meeting.
The other thing, for example, is the writing of the FOIA comment.
«Steven Mosher Posted Jan 21, 2010 at 3:23 AM started going through all the metadata, but got kinda disatrcted by writing (hehe) The key for me is timing of the last mail and the rejection of the FOIA appeal.»
You have indicators that who ever stole them may have believed in the sanctity of FOIA over the certainty of climate science.
I started going through all the metadata, but got kinda disatrcted by writing (hehe) The key for me is timing of the last mail and the rejection of the FOIA appeal.
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.
The team were complaining about the number of FOIA requests they were receiving so how about this scenario:
In the run up to the theft you would find students on their blogs expressing displeasure with the handling of FOIA.
Climate researchers routinely refuse to release key aspects of their research that would allow others to replicate their findings — Mann's refusal to release information about his famous «hockey stick» analysis even in the face of FOIA's is just the most famous example.
In an October email the DoS blamed an increase of FOIA lawsuits on the inordinate delay:
There is a duty under the Lord Chancellor's Code, issued pursuant to s. 46 of the FOIA, to have certain records management policies and practices in place.
On the allegation that CRU does not appear to have acted in a way consistent with the spirit and intent of the FoIA or EIR, we find that there was unhelpfulness in responding to requests and evidence that e-mails might have been deleted in order to make them unavailable should a subsequent request be made for them.
On 22 January 2010, when the Deputy Information Commissioner, Graham Smith, issued a statement which suggested that at l east some of the requested information should have been disclosed in the absence of applicable exemptions, it gave support to the criticisms of CRU's handling of FOIA requests.
PDA — a «flood» of FOIA requests?
From the:... comes this press release that makes me wonder why the University of Virginia spent close to a half million dollars trying to keep Dr. Michael Mann's emails out of an FOIA request and lawsuit by the State attorney general, Ken Cuccinelli and the American Tradition Institute.
As the story unfolded Tom Fuller and I grumbled about with the coverage of the FOIA story.
In 2009 there were as you note a flurry of FOIA.
McIntyre filed or coordinated the filing of dozens of FOIA requests to climate scientists at East Anglia beginning in 2007, with the pace escalating significantly in the months leading up to the leak.
Hopefully, we can avoid being crushed by the avalanche of FOIA request responses from the federal climate science community.
Another outcome of Climategate was that people didn't trust Jones or his CRUTEM data (because he was being reluctant to release it in the face of dozens of FOIA requests by random CA people).
(Such policies have an official standing in Part III of FOIA 2000 itself.)
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.
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.
This is one reason the Union of Concerned Scientists, for example, has walked a fine line in its statements on abuse of FOIA.
FY2002 - 230 and 2006 - 244) and U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) guidelines, affecting the processing of FOIA requests that seek copies of FOIA case logs.
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.
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