OMB Watch has this article highlighting the Office of Government Information Services Director's plans for the Office. Better known as the FOIA Ombudsman, Miriam Nisbet is reaching out to the FOIA community as she starts the Office which is a component of the National Archives and Records Administration. Today, she is speaking at a luncheon with the American Society of Access Professionals ("ASAP").
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FOIA requesters, such as activists in Ann Arbor, MI, are learning they can publish and aggregate the fruits of their requests on the web. Their aggregated records foster the kind of transparency in government (in their case local, municipal government) that the government itself should be creating. http://legal-beagle.typepad.com/wrights_legal_beagle/2009/11/local-government.html --Ben
Posted by: Ben Wright | November 11, 2009 at 10:58 AM