Alexander HowardMar 25
The Department of Justice misled Americans about the true causes and costs of growing delays to Freedom of Information Act requests during #SunshineWeek. I was sufficiently sad (& angry) enough to compose this email about their falsehoods, which is now a blog post: groups.google.com/g/us-open-go...

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The Department of Justice celebrated the FOIA by blaming slow responses on a "small group of prolific requestors and litigants" instead of DOGE gutting FOIA offices

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*Prior administrations* did make real progress in “improving FOIA processes & prioritizing citizens’ access to information about their government." The Trump administration has not. It is downright Orwellian to claim the inverse to be true on a Department of Justice website during #SunshineWeek.
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Show threadAlexander HowardMar 25
At this DOJ, increased secrecy & censorship, legacy systems, diminished capacity, lax oversight, & underfunding aren’t at fault for worse FOIA performance across US gov't. Instead, a “small group of requestors” is “forcing” agencies to divert “limited resources.” That’s transparently misleading.

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Department of Justice misleads Americans about the true causes and costs of FOIA delays during Sunshine Week

For the first time in over a decade, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) celebrated Sunshine Week with a blog post, instead of a public event. In past years, a high-ranking DOJ official &…

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