2022年1月21日 · Full Text of the FOIA Improvement Act of 2016 (Public Law No. 114-185) § 552. Public information; agency rules, opinions, orders, records, and proceedings. (a) Each agency shall make available to the public information as follows: (1) Each agency shall separately state and currently publish in the Federal Register for the guidance of the public—

Exemption 5 of the Freedom of Information Act protects "inter-agency or intra-agency memorandums or letters which would not be available by law to a party other than an agency in litigation with the agency."1 Courts have construed this somewhat opaque language2 to "exempt those documents, and only those documents that are normally privileged in ...

2021年12月3日 · Exemption 5 of the FOIA protects "inter-agency or intra-agency memorandums or letters which would not be available by law to a party other than an agency in litigation with the agency."

FOIA Public Liaisons shall be responsible for assisting in reducing delays, increasing transparency and understanding of the status of requests, and assisting in the resolution of …

2024年5月29日 · Exemption 5 of the federal Freedom of Information Act covers multiple privileges, including those that protect an attorney’s work product, attorney-client communications, and the “deliberative process.”

2023年7月12日 · The Committee voted 15-0 at its June 8, 2023, meeting to recommend that the Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Information Policy (OIP), publish guidance regarding the use of Exemption 5 privileges in response to FOIA requests.

2024年10月3日 · The Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA (5 U.S.C. 552, as amended), provides any person with the statutory right to request information from executive branch agencies of the U.S. Government. This right of access is subject to nine statutory FOIA exemptions, which provide agencies the authority to withhold records in whole or in part.

2018年3月5日 · b (5) is a four-letter word in the FOIA community - that “Withhold It Because You Want To” exemption line comes from an article from the National Security Archive’s Nate Jones that sums up the rampant use and abuse of b (5).

2021年10月29日 · FOIA mandates the disclosure of documents in the possession of federal agencies unless the documents fall under one of nine exemptions. Exemption 5 protects agency documents typically shielded from discovery in civil litigation under the attorney-client privilege, attorney work-product doctrine, and deliberative process privilege, the last of ...

2021年3月13日 · In Justice Amy Coney Barrett's first majority opinion since joining the United States Supreme Court, the Court expanded the Freedom of Information Act's (FOIA) protections for federal agencies by narrowing the category of documents required to be released thereunder in a 7-2 decision.