Month: August 2012

Government Executive‘s FedBlog reports what may be one of the cooler FOIA requests submitted recently. Following a fair amount of buzz about an ale brewed exclusively for the White House that President Obama has raved about on the campaign trail, one Reddit user posted an of a FOIA request reportedly […]

Filing a successful FOIA request remains a high-risk endeavor in the District of Columbia. The Blog of LegalTimes reports that a three-judge panel ruled Thursday to set parameters for prevailing parties to recover attorney’s fees after a FOIA dispute goes to court. The ruling was a blow to the city’s […]

The Atlantic ruminates on a recent FOIA request from Chicago’s Vivelohoy that uncovered a racial disparity in jaywalking arrests in Champaign and Urbana, the two towns that contain the University of Illinois. While 16 percent of their population is black, the FOIA request showed that 88 percent of jaywalking arrests in Champaign […]

Are you familiar with the “preliminary drafts” exemption to Illinois Freedom of Information Act requests, which allows policymakers to withhold early versions of documents while they’re in their earliest stages, under the assumption that later, revised and finalized versions will be made available? Illinois Governor Pat Quinn knows the exemption […]