Archive for February, 2013
Navigating a Sea of Records
Editor’s note: This guest post is from Wendy Schumacher, Ph.D., PMP. Wendy, thank you for sharing your story. I started my job as the FOIA Officer at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) about a year after the April 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. My new colleagues had collected, organized, reviewed, redacted and [...]
Posted by Carrie McGuire on February 12, 2013, under About FOIA, Best practices.
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Requesting Records Across Agencies
With 100 departments and agencies, the Executive Branch can feel downright massive sometimes. Although each of the 100 has a separate and distinct mission, and no doubt creates very different kinds of records, there is also some overlap in the way agencies operate and with the records they keep. Since its start, OGIS has been [...]
Posted by Corinna Zarek on February 6, 2013, under About FOIA, About OGIS, Best practices.
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