Freedom of Information Act

Jun 28th

Senators Bipartisan Bill Would Make it Harder for Agencies to Claim FOIA Exemptions

WASHINGTON (Tuesday, June 24, 2014) – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), long Congress’s leading advocate on government openness and transparency, Tuesday introduced bipartisan legislation to make improvements to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The bill introduction comes as the nation’s premier open government law nears the celebration of  its 48th anniversary on […]

Jan 15th

USPS IG finds sex on the job, stalkers and slashed tires

Letter carriers stalking customers and postal employees getting personal in the back room while on duty were among the stranger incidents involving U.S. Postal Service employees in recent years, according to the agency’s inspector general. The USPS IG investigated multiple assault cases last year, which were released to the Washington Examiner through a Freedom of […]

Mar 22nd

USPS Tests Are Secret Under FOIA

An applicant rejected for hire as an Electronic Technician, PS-11 was denied the right to visually review his test documents. The U.S. District Court in Pennsylvania wrote:   Plaintiff attempts to concoct a “scenario” to circumvent said exemptions. Plaintiff states that he “does dispute that the cited law [by the USPS] totally preclude[s] the Plaintiff’s […]

Mar 14th

USPS Listed Among Federal Agencies With Poor FOIA Practices

Postal Regulatory Commission also on ” no documents” provided list of Federal Agencies In a news release from National Security Archive at George Washington University: “The 2011 Knight Open Government Survey team filed FOIA request with all 90 agencies that have chief FOIA officers asking for copies of concrete changes in their FOIA regulations, manuals, […]

Oct 5th

Court Denies APWU's Request Seeking USPS Pay For Performance Records

The American Postal Workers Union, AFL-CIO, requested information from the United States Postal Service under the Freedom of Information Act on September 10, 2008.  APWU requested “the most recent Pay for Performance bonus and/or pay increases . . . contain[ing] the following information: finance number, last name, first name, middle initial, level, title, PFP lump-sum amount, PFP […]