Posts Tagged ‘FOIA requests’

Sunshine Review

Radley Balko joins #FOIAchat this Friday!

by Sunshine Review
radley balkoThe Radley Balko is joining #FOIAchat this week to answer questions and share his experience attaining public records, especially on police militarization, forensics, and the criminal justice system.  His investigations led to the termination of a Mississippi medical examiner named Steven Hayne, whose testimonies led to four wrongful convictions.
He is currently an investigative reporter for the Huffington Post, and previously was a senior editor for Reason Magazine.  His work has been featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Economist,  and the Showtime program Penn & Teller’s Bullshit!.
His 2009 investigative report on expert witness fraud in a Louisiana death penalty case won the Western Publication Association’s “Maggie Award.” In 2011 the L.A. Press Club named him “Journalist of the Year,” and The Week named Balko a finalist for “Opinion Columnist of the Year.”

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Posted Aug 18th 2011 at 2:31 pm in News | 13 Comments

Steven Mosher

Leake and the London Times: Climate Scientists thwarted FOIA

by Steven Mosher

Graham Smith of the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has revealed to Jonathan Leake of the London Sunday Times that his office has uncovered wrongdoing on the part of the University of East Anglia’s (UEA) Climate Research Unit (CRU). In a letter to Leake, Smith writes:

The emails which are now public reveal that Mr Holland’s requests under the Freedom of Information Act were not dealt with as they should have been under the legislation. Section 77 of the Freedom of Information Act makes it an offence for public authorities to act so as to prevent intentionally the disclosure of requested information..


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Currently the law prevents the authorities from taking any action against CRU, and the ICO office will recommend changes to the law to close the loophole.

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Posted Feb 1st 2010 at 7:27 am in Environment, News | 130 Comments