FOIA
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The Morning Federal Newscast is a daily compilation of the stories you hear Federal Drive hosts Tom Temin and Emily Kopp discuss throughout the show each day. The Newscast is designed to give FederalNewsRadio.com users more information about the stories you hear on the air. Today's news includes a memo telling Defense workers they can read, but they can't discuss or share the contents of a new tell-all about the mission that killed Osama bin Laden and the ACLU is suing the federal government to find out why it collects vehicle license plate numbers.
September 27, 2012 -
Agencies dedicated more money and personnel to FOIA processing in 2011, but requests grew even faster.
September 10, 2012 -
Melanie Pustay of the Justice Department discusses FOIA requests. Tim Burke talks about GSA's City Pairs Program. Booz Allen Hamilton's Michael Isman reviews the benefits of BYOD. The Hill's Jeremy Herb offers his take on the Republicans' vice presidential candidate.
August 15, 2012 -
The American Small Business League says there's no legal basis for the department to deny its Freedom of Information Act request.
June 13, 2012 -
There is a new game that is spreading like wildfire in government and among the media, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says. It's a version of show and tell, except in this one you show us yours and we don't show you ours.
May 18, 2012 -
As a civil servant you have nothing to hide, so would it be okay if your friends and neighbors saw you naked. OK, if that seems a bit intrusive at least let us know how much money you make working for Uncle Sam, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says.
May 17, 2012 -
President Barack Obama has proposed an open government plan that includes more streamlined responses to FOIA requests, digital record management, a revamped regulations.gov and new measures to promote public participation in government. He presented the plan at a meeting of the international Open Government Partnership in New York.
September 20, 2011 -
A National Security Archive survey finds agencies are falling short of the Obama administration\'s order to improve response time for Freedom of Information Act requests.
July 07, 2011 -
National Security Archive survey reveals agencies are not reporting accurate information about 10-year backlog to the Justice Department. NSA found agencies are falling well short of the Obama administration\'s mandate to improve Freedom of Information Act requests.
July 07, 2011 -
Agency CIO Darren Ash said media and citizens wanted more information than ever about what NRC is doing in the U.S. and in Japan to deal with the nuclear power safety. Ash said the agency is considering both technology and process improvements to its FOIA processes. June 9, 2011
June 09, 2011 -
The largest federal employees\' union has filing a lawsuit against the Obama administration for failing to provide details of agencies\' shutdown plans. Attorney Bill Bransford breaks it down for us.
April 07, 2011 -
The Justice Department has launched a new website that shines light on your agency\'s performance under the Freedom of Information Act.
March 22, 2011 -
Not every agency is responding the President\'s call for transparency - a call that was highlighted in a memorandum signed on President Obama\'s first day in office.
March 15, 2011 -
The Office of Government Information Services has impacted how agencies and citizens interact over Freedom of Information Act requests in its first year. Among the agency\'s first-year goals was to make people aware of its mission to act as an arbiter and help agencies implement best practices.
October 22, 2010 -
Legislation has been introduced in the Senate that would strike a section of the recently enacted financial regulation law that exempted the Securities and Exchange Commission from the Freedom of Information Act. On the Money blogger Silla Brush explains.
September 01, 2010