Comments on: Freedom of Information a Joke to Some Agencies http://citmedia.org/blog/2007/07/02/freedom-of-information-a-joke-to-some-agencies/ Sat, 24 Oct 2009 22:49:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jon Garfunkel http://citmedia.org/blog/2007/07/02/freedom-of-information-a-joke-to-some-agencies/comment-page-1/#comment-1624 Jon Garfunkel Tue, 03 Jul 2007 05:10:51 +0000 http://citmedia.org/blog/2007/07/02/freedom-of-information-a-joke-to-some-agencies/#comment-1624 Yes, I understand the timing of the law: it's the 40th anniversary of FOIA going into effect. But the report and the article are hyping the edge cases rather than substantive numbers. A search for <b>FOIA report</b> reveals that every agency provides an annual report in a <i>different</i> format. There is no graph comparing the throughput or backlog of each agency. Nor can I find a trend graph showing the throughput and backlog over time. GWU's National Security Archive March 2007 report on the slowness of E-FOIA adoption over the last ten years<a href="http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB216/index.htm" rel="nofollow">File Not Found</a> should interest more of your readers. Yes, I understand the timing of the law: it’s the 40th anniversary of FOIA going into effect. But the report and the article are hyping the edge cases rather than substantive numbers.

A search for FOIA report reveals that every agency provides an annual report in a different format. There is no graph comparing the throughput or backlog of each agency. Nor can I find a trend graph showing the throughput and backlog over time.

GWU’s National Security Archive March 2007 report on the slowness of E-FOIA adoption over the last ten yearsFile Not Found should interest more of your readers.

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