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Saving the Freedom of Information Act


ISBN13: 9781108710893
Published: October 2021
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Paperback
Price: £30.99



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Enacted in 1966, The Freedom of Information Act (or FOIA) was designed to promote oversight of governmental activities, under the notion that most users would be journalists. Today, however, FOIA is largely used for purposes other than fostering democratic accountability. Instead, most requesters are either individuals seeking their own files, businesses using FOIA as part of commercial enterprises, or others with idiosyncratic purposes like political opposition research. In this sweeping, empirical study, Margaret Kwoka documents how agencies have responded to the large volume of non-oversight requesters by creating new processes, systems, and specialists, which in turn has had a deleterious impact on journalists and the media. To address this problem, Kwoka proposes a series of structural solutions aimed at shrinking FOIA to re-center its oversight purposes.

Subjects:
Other Jurisdictions , USA
Contents:
Introduction
Part I. FOIA and Democracy:
1. Why Free Information?
2. FOIA as Oversight
Part II. Who Makes a Million FOIA Requests:
3. It Is Not the News Media
4. Immigration
5. Other First-Person Requesting
6. FOIA, Inc.
7. Information Resellers
8. Idiosyncratic Requesters
Part III. Let Oversight Reign:
9. The Problem with Repurposing FOIA
10. Affirmative Disclosure
11. Redesigning Agency Adjudications
12. Customizing Information Delivery
Conclusion