Lauren Harper

Author: Lauren Harper

FOIA Bill Passes Senate But Government Still Not Prioritizing Email: A Sunshine Week Wrap-Up FRINFORMSUM 3/18/2016
Archive’s Nomination of DOE for FOILIES Award for Egregious B5 Invocation Reminder Why FOIA Reform Necessary
ODNI Yet to Formally Withdraw Rule on Astronomically High MDR Fees Despite Pledge to Modify It: FRINFORMSUM 3/10/2016
The FBI Deserves the Bad Week it’s Having: FRINFORMSUM 3/3/2016
ODNI Tries to Sneak Through Astronomically High MDR Fees Out of Step with Obama Administration’s Open Gov Commitments
DOJ Lawyer Forgets FOIA Requires Agencies Search All Systems Reasonably Believed to Contain Responsive Documents: FRINFORMSUM 2/25/2016
“Need for Greater Leadership and Enforcement” Hampers FOIA Improvements: FRINFORMSUM 2/18/2016
The Archivist of the US Should Call the Torture Report What It Is: A Federal Record
Federal Judges Call Out DOJ, State Department for Lackluster FOIA Performance: FRINFORMSUM 2/11/2016
Ongoing Government-wide Problems Mishandling Classified Material in this Week’s FRINFORMSUM 2/4/2016
Colbert Uses Declassified Doc to Grill Rumsfeld: “It Is Big”
The Real Legacy of Clinton’s Personal Email: Outdated Government-wide Email Management and Overclassification
Archivist of US Should Declare Torture Report a Federal Record, News from the Cyber Vault, and Much More: FRINFORMSUM 1/21/2016
FOIA Fee Survey Results Are In: Fee System Not Working, but no Consensus on Best Fix
Overall Good FOIA Reform Bill Passes House With Troubling IC Carve-Outs: FRINFORMSUM 1/14/2016
DOD’s Got a Good FOIA Policy Chief but Will Renew Lobby for Bad New FOIA Exemption Anyway: FRINFORMSUM 1/7/2016
FOIA Fee Survey, New NSArchive Nuclear History Publication, and the National Security Archive’s 30th Anniversary! FRINFORMSUM 12/17/2015
FOIA Fee Survey For Requesters: Fill Out and Help Circulate to Improve the FOIA Fees Debate
FBI’s Police Shooting Tracking System a “Travesty”, British Cabinet Office Concealing War Scare Report Despite Strong Evidence for its Release, and Much More: FRINFORMSUM 12/10/2015
FOIA Advisory Committee To Act on Inadequate OMB Fee Guidance