The ink is barely dry from the President's signing of the amendments to the FOIA, and the White House is already working on watering down the implications of the act.
As this report by Rebecca Carr states, the White House is trying to move the FOIA Ombudsman's Office that by law is situated in the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) into the Department of Justice (DOJ). Senators Leahy and Corwyn, who were the main sponsors of the new law, are not happy with this and have promised to fight it. The reason the new office was placed in NARA rather than DOJ is that DOJ is in charge of FOIA policy and would have a conflict of interest in acting as an ombudsman.
It is unclear whether or not the bipartisan attack on the White House plans will be enough to discourage the administration with following through on this action.
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