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  2. Freedom of Information Act (United States) - Wikipedia

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    Department of Justice v. Julian, 486 U.S. 1 (1988) Department of Justice v. Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, 489 U.S. 749 (1989) United States Department of Justice v. Tax Analysts, 492 U.S. 136 (1989) John Doe Agency v. John Doe Corp., 493 U.S. 146 (1989) United States Department of State v. Ray, 502 U.S. 164 (1991) Department of ...

  3. Freedom of information in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Holder Memo is part of series of policy memos on how federal agencies should apply FOIA exemptions. Beginning in 1977 with Attorney General Griffin Bell, and continued by Attorney General William French Smith in 1981 and Attorney General Janet Reno in 1993, U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced how the executive branch should approach FOIA, its application, and DOJ's defense of ...

  4. How FOIA Gave Rise to Government Transparency Laws ... - AOL

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    The original Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) of 1966—the law under which many of those redacted documents are obtained—was the "product of years of slow campaigning by a network of ...

  5. FOIA Exemption 3 Statutes - Wikipedia

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    FOIA Exemption 3 Statutes are statutes found to qualify under Exemption 3 of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C.§ 552(b)(3).Under its terms, as amended in 1976 and 2009, a statute qualifies as an "Exemption 3 statute" only if it "(i) requires that the matters be withheld from the public in such a manner as to leave no discretion on the issue; or (ii) establishes particular criteria ...

  6. Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse - Wikipedia

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    The FOIA Project was created by TRAC to track government agencies' responsiveness to public records requests and to document the growing number of FOIA cases litigated in federal court. [10] The Project maintains a public website with information on federal FOIA cases, [ 31 ] agency FOIA processing times, a list of the most active FOIA ...

  7. United States Department of Justice v. Reporters Committee ...

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    The District Court, granting the Department's motion for summary judgment after an in camera review of the requested information, held that such information was exempted from FOIA's disclosure requirements by various FOIA provisions, including Exemption 7(C) (5 USCS 552(b)(7)(C)), which applies to investigatory records compiled for law enforcement purposes where production of such records ...

  8. FOIA - Wikipedia

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    FOIA is an abbreviation for the "Freedom of Information Act," a set of laws designed to promote transparency by offering citizens access to government records, except for a few exceptions (e.g., personal privacy, national security, and law enforcement).

  9. File:Stalking by Teams or Groups-DOJ FOIA documents-Page2of3 ...

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    These materials clarified information previously published by the Department of Justice in a January 2009 Special Report entitled Stalking Victimization in the United States. This document clearly states that, out of the category of 3 or more stalkers, 41.2% or 185,050 such cases involved stalkers working together as a team or group.