In my previous post, I included a video praising the Department of Agriculture for responding extremely positively to the survey’s FOIA request. The volume of their overwhelming response tested the structural limits of the manila folder dedicated to their agency.
Since this is Sunshine Week, I wanted to highlight another excellent agency response that was more merciful to its manila folder than the Department of Agriculture. The Department of the Interior found about 116 pages of responsive documents. For the sake of the survey’s metrics, the Department of the Interior placed themselves among the top thirteen agencies that fulfilled both steps of the Emanuel-Bauer memorandum. However, the Department of the Interior earned this spotlight by scoring style points that we were unable to objectively evaluate for the official survey. (more…)
