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Justice Dept annual FOIA summary report miscalculates FOIA release rate

Unredacted, the National Security Archive’s blog, analyzed the latest annual agency FOIA report from the Department of Justice’s Office of Information Policy (OIP), and found that the report over calculated and misrepresented the government’s release rate of FOIA requests. The FY2019 summary report said that agencies had achieved a government-wide release rate of 94.4% (up […]

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HIGH-INCOME NONFILERS OWING BILLIONS OF DOLLARS…

The Treasury Inspector General recently released an audit that the IRS isn’t doing an adequate job of making sure that the highest earners are paying their fair share. Surveys consistently report that most citizens believe that everyone should pay their fair share of taxes. Party affiliation doesn’t affect their opinion. “Only 6% of Americans think […]

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CDC Activities and Initiatives Supporting the COVID-19 Response and the President’s Plan for Opening America U p Again

Journalists reported in May that CDC had created a 60 page + document on reopening for public distribution but that some administration appointees had blocked its release and issued instead a 17 page document of information they already published. A librarian searched CDC’s website and couldn’t find and therefore initiated a FOIA request. The 17 […]

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Freedom of information case list

The Government Printing Office (GPO) cataloged the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Freedom of Information Case list. https://www.justice.gov/oip/court-decisions-overview One can find additional DOJ FOIA information on the website.

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small business pulse survey (Census)

“The experimental Small Business Pulse Survey (Business Pulse) measures the changes in business conditions on our nation’s small businesses during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.” https://www.census.gov/data/experimental-data-products/small-business-pulse-survey.html GPO will catalog/archive. co-published on govdoc-l and freegovinfo.info.

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