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Saving the Freedom of Information Act

Name: Saving the Freedom of Information Act
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781108710893
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Author: Margaret B. Kwoka
ISBN: 9781108710893

By Margaret B. Kwoka

Cambridge University Press October 2021

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ISBN-13: 9781108710893
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: October 2021
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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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.

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

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