E-FOIA and the "mother of all complaints:" information delivery and delay reduction
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Agencies can decrease the length of delays in meeting requests under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by creatively testing various information delivery concepts contained within the FOIA's Electronic Amendments (Amendments). Information technologies should allow agencies to automate their categorization and redaction processes. Ultimately, the agencies will need to implement technologies that meet the public's need for greater efficiency in the delivery of information and as mandated in FOIA's Amendments.
Publication Name: Administrative Law Review
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0001-8368
Year: 1998
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Why not administrative grand juries?
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The use of citizen panels modeled on the grand jury at local, state and federal levels to monitor or perform tasks now handled by administrative agencies will serve to legitimate those necessary functions and to increase citizens' knowledge and empowerment. Historically, the grand jury performed many more functions than does its passive vestige. The panel would focus on government rather than private misconduct and would need adequate education and information to handle the technical issues it would confront.
Publication Name: Administrative Law Review
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0001-8368
Year: 1992
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The Internet changes everything: revolutionizing public participation and access to government information through the Internet
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The Internet continued in 1998 to become a more vital component of the public's access to information from federal agencies and the ability to participate in those agencies' decisionmaking. Electronic information services could in the future end much public frustration over agencies' actions and rulemaking. The public will be able to easily supply federal agencies with tremendously diverse comments on proposed rules, allowing the agency to promulgate regulations serving an informed public's welfare.
Publication Name: Administrative Law Review
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0001-8368
Year: 1998
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