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Showing posts with label FOIA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FOIA. Show all posts

Thursday, January 31, 2008

DHS Denies Documents, Claiming Public Has No Interest

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Leave it to the Department of Homeland Security to refuse a FOIA request from The Seton Hall School of Law Center for Social Justice and the Brazilian Voice.
If you like a post, please consider Digging it, or book-marking it with one of the nice social bookmarks at the bottom. Thanks. From Courthouse News Service:
NEWARK - The Seton Hall School of Law Center for Social Justice and the Brazilian Voice newspaper demand that the Department of Homeland Security and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement respond to their FOIA request for statistics on warrantless police raids on New Jersey immigrant communities. The DHS refused the request, stating, "a preliminary search of the internet does not indicate that there is substantial current news interest concerning (illegal immigration)," the plaintiffs say in their federal complaint.

I know D.H.S. are experts at Internet Research, after all DHS Agent Michael Burks was caught on NBC's To Catch a Predator. It seems like DHS knows how to use the internet REAL WELL.

This is one suit I don't think we the U.S. Taxpayers should have to end up paying for when DHS loses and is forced to pay attorneys fees. Here is the Complaint.

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Monday, August 20, 2007

Sunlight foundation blog on FOIA

Two investigative reporters blog about their experience with FOIA (from Wikipedia) and have links to copies of the documents. I think having image scans of the documents is very helpful for people to see the form and specific exemptions cited. It gives you a chance to overcome the objections ahead of time and it definitely helps to narrow your requests.

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