• some form of freedom of information legislation. Sweden's Freedom of the Press Act of 1766 is the oldest in the world. Most freedom of information laws exclude...
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  • request: Freedom of Information Act (United States) of 1966 Freedom of Information Act 1982, the Australian act Freedom of Information Act 2000, the UK act Freedom...
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    The Freedom of Information Act 2000 (c. 36) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that creates a public "right of access" to information held...
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    The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA /ˈfɔɪjə/ FOY-yə), 5 U.S.C. § 552, is the United States federal freedom of information law that requires the full or...
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    Freedom of Information Act, 2002. Under the provisions of RTI Act, any citizen of India may request information from a "public authority" (a body of Government...
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  • Freedom of information act 2002 was the precursor to Right to Information Act, 2005 of Parliament of India. The main weakness of this act was that it...
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  • of Information Act, signed into law on July 4, 1966, by President Lyndon Johnson. Administrative Procedure Act PL 79-404; 1946 Freedom of Information Act...
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    The Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (asp 13) was an Act of the Scottish Parliament passed in 2002. It covers public bodies over which the Scottish...
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    Freedom of information is freedom of a person or people to publish and have access to information. Access to information is the ability for an individual...
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    The Illinois Freedom of Information Act (FOIA /ˈfɔɪjə/ FOY-yə), 5 ILCS 140/1 et seq., is an Illinois statute that grants to all persons the right to copy...
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    The Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Cth) is an Act of the Parliament of Australia which guarantees freedom of information (FOI) and the rights of access...
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    The U.S. Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 (Public Law 80-402), popularly called the Smith–Mundt Act, was first introduced by Congressman...
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    The Freedom of Information Act (FoIA) (German: Öffentlichkeitsgesetz, BGÖ, French: Loi sur la transparence, LTrans, Italian: Legge sulla trasparenza, LTras)...
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    Directive) Regulations 2003 across the UK; and the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 in England, Wales and Northern...
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  • under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and related laws and opposes attempts to weaken them. It does this through campaigning, the publication of briefings...
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    in an ombudsman function in freedom of information. The latter was introduced with the German Freedom of Information Act on 1 January 2006. In 2016, it...
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  • or freedom of information legislation that define the ambit of national interest and enable citizens to request access to government-held information. The...
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  • Act 1988 and other laws freedom of information functions, in particular, oversight of the operation of the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (FOI Act)...
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    for government bodies to refuse to release documents under the Freedom of Information Act (2000), on the grounds that they are too expensive and too time-consuming...
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  • Freedom of information (FOI) in the United Kingdom refers to members of the general public's right to access information held by public authorities. This...
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    Jacob Scher (journalist) (category Freedom of information legislation)
    investigate cases of news suppression by government agencies, a precursor to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The Freedom of Information Act took 12 years...
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  • of 2004 laid the basis for the following two provincial laws: The Baluchistan Freedom of Information Act in 2005 and Sindh Freedom of Information Act...
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    personal information under specific circumstances. The Freedom of Information Act was enacted in 1996, and expanded upon the principles of the Privacy Act and...
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    Protection Act was made into federal law in the United States in 1989. Whistleblower protection laws and regulations guarantee freedom of speech for workers...
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    analysis of the fifteen federal agencies that receive the most Freedom of Information Act FOIA requests, published in 2015 (using 2012 and 2013 data, the...
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  • Protection Act 2018, Freedom of Information Act 2000 and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004. The Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 is...
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  • eventually declassified following a Freedom of Information Act request. The April 30, 2011 document was written as part of a fictional training scenario for...
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    Government analysis of 15 federal agencies which receive the most Freedom of Information Act (United States) (FOIA) requests (using 2012 and 2013 data, the...
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    Center for Effective Government analysis of 15 federal agencies which receive the most Freedom of Information Act FOIA requests, published in 2015 (using...
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    information through the Freedom of Information Act. Numerous organizations filed FOIA requests seeking at least a partial release of photographs, videos,...
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