Following Through On FOIA: Progress And Pitfalls
http://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2013-01-29/following-through-foia-progress-and-pitfalls
Four years after President Barack Obama pledged to make the federal government more transparent, government watchers complain about a growing backlog of Freedom of Information Act requests. But a new office under the National Archives hopes to bring some clarity to frustrated filers. Kojo explores the legal and practical challenges to filing Freedom of Information requests, and what you can expect from both federal and local authorities.
Guests
Daniel Metcalfe
Executive Director, Collaboration on Government Secrecy at American University’s Washington College of Law
Miriam Nisbet
Director, Office of Government Information Services at the National Archives and Records Administration
Thomas Blanton
Director, National Security Archive at George Washington University
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We look across the Potomac River from Maryland into Virginia and see developers polluting the waters of the United States with sediment from construction sites which we consider to be illegal. The offenses are federal but the permitting authority has been delegated to the local Virginia county. The Virginia Freedom of Information Act does not require a response to people who are not citizens of Virginia. There is some facetious information on the web about duces tecum subpoenas but that would mean we must take the county to court to get a simple answer to a simple question. It seems as if the FOIA is being used to SUPPRESS information and cover up illegal pollution.