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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Canadian privacy law (redirect from Privacy laws of Canada)
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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