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New FOIAXpress Version from AINS will include a FOIA web portal for the public to more easily submit, track and receive FOIA requests from agencies. Washington D.C. (PRWEB) May 16, 2013 AINS Inc. announced Tuesday that the upcoming version release of its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) processing software, http://www.foiaxpress.com FOIAXpress , will include a public-facing web portal at no additional charge to FOIAXpress users, in order to facilitate government transparency and...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- During Sunshine Week, March 10-16, the National Press Club Journalism Institute and the Club's Professional Affairs and Freedom of the Press committees plan to help journalists and others obtain information that the government might not want you to have. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080917/NPCLOGO) Reporters and watchdogs will offer tips on how to use the Freedom of Information Act to ferret out documents and data...
WASHINGTON, May 9, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) filed suit late Tuesday under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to obtain records of 65 meetings that the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) held with interest groups to discuss four major Clean Air Act rules under consideration by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The scope of the EIP lawsuit includes 51 meetings with representatives of...
SANTA MONICA, Calif., May 2, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Consumer Watchdog today filed a Freedom of Information Act Request with the Federal Communications Commission seeking all documents related to the Commission's investigation of the Google Wi-Spy scandal. So far only the FCC's Notice of Apparent Liability For Forfeiture has been made public. It ordered that Google pay $25,000 for willfully obstructing the FCC's investigation into how Google's Street View cars gathered...
California takes #1 spot for most public employees making over $150K ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, Sunshine Review, a nonprofit organization dedicated to government transparency, released its first state government salary report, which analyzed public sector employee salaries in 152 local governments spanning eight states. Taking data from the last four years, Sunshine Review investigated benefits information as well as information on government...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Family Research Council (FRC) President Tony Perkins submitted a letter to the Department of the Navy yesterday requesting records of communications regarding a policy memo issued by Walter Reed Military Medical Center that would restrict the distribution of religious materials including Bibles to patients by their families. This request was made under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). (Logo:...
Kagan: "I hear they have the votes!! Simply amazing." WASHINGTON, Nov. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has obtained three new documents that provide additional information about Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan and the Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare) while she served as solicitor general. Justice Kagan has said she was not actively involved in...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Press Club expressed concern Monday about a proposed new Freedom of Information Act rule that appears to require the government to deny the existence of certain documents even when that is not true. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080917/NPCLOGO) Federal agencies have long been able to withhold from public disclosure under the law certain categories of information, including data that pertains to ongoing criminal...
Is DOE Hiding Miniscule Credit Subsidy Fee of 1.5 Percent ... Or Even Less ...for New Vogtle Reactors? Ignoring Need for Transparency After Collapse of Recent Loan Guarantee, DOE Continues to Refuse to Operate in an Open, Taxpayer-Friendly Way. ATLANTA, Oct. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- After more than a year and a half of stonewalling by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE) said this week that it will press ahead with its Freedom of...
Charges for the Aircraft and Crew Alone Amount to $424,142 WASHINGTON, Oct. 4, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Judicial Watch, the organization that investigates and fights government corruption, announced today that it has obtained mission expense records and passenger manifests from the United States Air Force related to the June 21-27, 2011, trip taken by First Lady Michelle Obama, her family and her staff to South Africa and Botswana. Judicial Watch obtained the documents pursuant to...
