Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Amendments: 109th Congress
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Enacted in 1966, the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) was designed to enable any person -- individual or corporate, regardless of citizenship -- to request, without explanation or justification, presumptive access to existing, identifiable, unpublished, executive branch agency records on any topic. The statute specified nine categories of information that may be permissibly exempted from the rule of disclosure. Disputes over the accessibility of requested records could be ultimately settled in…
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Date:
September 22, 2006
Creator:
Relyea, Harold C.
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UNT Libraries Government Documents Department