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DOJ Analysis of Proposed FOIA Legislation

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Following up on my posting February 16, Open Government Act of 2005 Introduced Today With Bipartisan Support, see this DOJ analysis of the legislation’s specific proposals.

  • “If the introduction of this proposed legislation does lead to the enactment of major FOIA amendments during the 109th Congress, it will continue a distinct legislative pattern for the FOIA that now traces back fifty years. The FOIA was enacted in 1966 (taking effect a year later, on July 4, 1967) after approximately ten years of legislative deliberation that began in late 1955. It then was the subject of major legislative revisions almost exactly at ten-year intervals — in 1974, 1986, and 1996 — over the course of the next thirty years.”
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