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FOIA officers are required by the statute to record the date that the FOIA request was received, note the deadline to respond, maintain a copy of the FOIA request until the request has been granted or denied, and create a file to retain the original request, the response, written communications with the requester, and other communications. [131]
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 ...
The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is an Illinois statute that grants to all persons the right to copy and inspect public records in the state. The law applies to executive and legislative bodies of state government, units of local government, and other entities defined as "public bodies". All records related to governmental business are ...
Eric Hawkins, a former Southfield police chief who is currently the police chief in Albany, N.Y., is being appointed as Warren's new police commissioner, Warren Mayor Lori Stone announced Wednesday.
A photo of Warren Police Commissioner William Dwyer, who served in Detroit Police Department's narcotics unit working with Mayor Coleman Young in 1976, in his office at the Christopher M. Wouters ...
The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA / ˈ f ɔɪ j ə / FOY-yə), 5 U.S.C. § 552, is the United States federal freedom of information law that requires the full or partial disclosure of previously unreleased or uncirculated information and documents controlled by the U.S. government upon request. The act defines agency records subject to ...
U.S. Attorney Dawn Ison, center, speaks during a news conference in downtown Detroit on July 10, 2023, after a former Warren police officer is charged with a federal civil rights violation after ...
The response from the Federal Bureau of Investigation was a bill for $270,000 to fulfill the request. [16] MuckRock's request to the New York City Police Department for their guidebook on responding to FOIA requests was denied due to it being a confidential document. [17]