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I'm surprised it only took them a year. Would you care to share more about your experience on filing FOIA? The circles I run in seem to view it as a clunky, blo
by 0xEF 3y ago
I'm surprised it only took them a year. Would you care to share more about your experience on filing FOIA? The circles I run in seem to view it as a clunky, bloated process, but I feel like it has gotten better than when it was introduced. I have zero first-hand experience, though.
- kotaKat 3y agoNo problem to help, but bad news: Every government agency has different processes. You'll have to go through their own FOIA office. The NSA FOIA form is actually really easy: https://www.nsa.gov/about/contact-us/Submit-a-FOIA-Request/ https://www.nsa.gov/about/contact-us/Submit-a-FOIA-Request/ I simply asked for what I wanted (information about policy memos about 'Furby Alerts' and recording devices at the NSA from late 1998 to early 1999) and submitted the form. About a month later I got a response back from the NSA acknowledging they got my request, and located records that were part of another FOIA request being processed as well, so I'd get those documents as well once released. And then... yesterday afternoon I got the message "hey what did you get from the DoD?" - bewildered, sending me a photo of the cover (in the full article). They finally delivered, and I hastily scanned my spoils for everyone. :)
- qingcharles 3y agoAnd to piggyback on your comment. State FOIA is a different beast to federal FOIA. Lots of states have much tighter timelines. Illinois requires the government body to respond with the records within 5 business days.
- trevyn 3y agohttps://www.muckrock.com/ https://www.muckrock.com/ seems to have a lot of good information on this too, and fun-to-look-through archives of requests and responses.