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Whose information is it? The politics of FOIA

Posted: April 1, 2011 | Tags: Shira A. Sheindlin, TRAC, wikicountability

It seems that the notions of open government and better administration of the Freedom of Information Act have attracted some new adherents in recent weeks.

For example, Crossroads GPS, the political action group put together by Karl Rove and which played a large part in last fall’s Republican gains in Congress, has launched a new website to track FOIA requests.

A Michigan libertarian group used the state’s FOI law to ask for emails from university professors in Michigan relating to the move in Wisconsin to reduce collective bargaining rights for public employees. And the Wisconsin Republican Party also ...

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New rules still don't cover immigrants

A zero-tolerance policy and a set of new rules to protect against sexual assault and rape in prisons nationwide were announced Thursday by the Justice Department. The new rules come nearly a decade after Congress mandated new rape protections for those behind bars under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) of 2003. But the new regulations won't immediately impact the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees immigration detention centers, as it still has 120 days to write its own rules to comply with PREA and another 240 days to finalize them.

Knight moves to support donor transparency

The Knight Foundation has taken a major step in promoting transparency by requiring journalism and nonprofit grant seekers to disclose more information about their donors.

'Honor and privilege' to work with Mike Wallace

Charles Lewis, executive editor of the Investigative Reporting Workshop, remembers Mike Wallace. Lewis worked alongside Wallace at "60 Minutes."

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