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I'd welcome a sincere discussion regarding how to fix public records laws that are designed to be unrealistic and waste the maximum amount of time and effort f
by loteck 5y ago
I'd welcome a sincere discussion regarding how to fix public records laws that are designed to be unrealistic and waste the maximum amount of time and effort for both the requester and the public agency.
We would all like the maximum safe transparency but I somehow doubt most of us would like to pay for it.
- post_from_work 5y agoImplement records management/data management policies with metadata tagging for individual fields in a record. This could cover Unclassified/Secret/etc. as well as PII/PHI. Then when a FOIA requests comes in, the software handling the release automatically redacts the PII/PHI fields, does a timestamp check for the Secret+ fields and redacts if < (xx years). This is why best practice is to put classification markings on every paragraph in a classified document (seems like a pain but clearly it's important and needed). It builds a mental "muscle memory" in the staff for granular metadata tagging that eases the production of derivative classified products, Foreign Disclosure, and FOIA.
- giantg2 5y agoOr in this case, make companies submitting to the FDA file a sanitized version of the report along with the full one.
- stjohnswarts 5y agoThis would go a long way towards making the process feasible.