Maker of Public Records Tracker™ Says App Offers Simple Way For Agencies to Comply with Federal FOIA & Technology Mandates Washington, DC (PRWEB) May 11, 2011 At its current rate of progress, the federal government will still be trying to comply with the “Obama Freedom of Information Act” after the President’s first term in office expires, according to the Knight Open Government Survey 2011. Issued earlier this spring by the National Security Archive, the report found that despite some compliance, “government at all levels seems to have a great deal of trouble obeying its own transparency laws,” and that there were, “persisting deep problems including FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) requests marooned for years in never-ending referrals among agencies.” These and related problems can be addressed simply and quickly, according to the developers of Public Records Tracker™ (PRT), a cloud-based solution for helping government agencies in streamlining the FOIA proces

By JENNIFER C. KERR WASHINGTON - Little-known documents now being made public detail illegal and scandalous activities by the CIA more than 30 years ago: wiretappings of journalists, kidnappings, warrantless searches and more.

By Robert Tanner Federal agencies have dragged their feet on implementing a 10- year-old law that requires them to use the Internet to make government documents easily available, a new study had found.

Federal agencies have dragged their feet on implementing 10-year-old law that requires them to use the Internet to make government documents easily available, a new study says.

The National Archives agreed to seal previously public CIA and Pentagon records and to keep silent about U.S. intelligence's role in the reclassification, according to an agreement released under the Freedom of Information Act.