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> Obviously, no one believes for one minute that any 'normal' citizen will be granted access to most things. In the Netherlands we get reasonably close with wh
by rutierut 7y ago
> Obviously, no one believes for one minute that any 'normal' citizen will be granted access to most things.
In the Netherlands we get reasonably close with what we call WOB requests (literally: Law of Public Governance).
It takes a long time before you get the data (months) and it gets manually redacted but requests like for example:
I would like to receive all internal communication of the ministery of Health with my name in the email body.
Generally, get honored.
- emj 7y agoFWIW it's not limited to your name, at least in Sweden it can be anything, but to some extent they can claim technical difficulties with performing the search. There are cases were one such request took thousands of hours to complete.
- some_random 7y agoYou can do the same in the US with FOIA