{"id":40138,"date":"2009-11-11T14:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T19:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091111\/0157526889.shtml"},"modified":"2009-11-11T14:03:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T19:03:00","slug":"feds-demand-over-half-a-million-dollars-to-fulfill-a-freedom-of-information-act-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/40138","title":{"rendered":"Feds Demand Over Half A Million Dollars To Fulfill A Freedom Of Information Act Request"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When President Obama took office, one of the very first things he did was declare that all government agencies should <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2009\/01\/on-day-one-obama-demands-open-government\" >default towards openness<\/a> in dealing with Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.  It looks like some are trying to sneak around that a bit.  Wired has the story of an FOIA request where the government is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/threatlevel\/2009\/11\/huge-foia-tab\/\" >demanding $522,886 in order to fulfill the request<\/a>.  This certainly gives off the appearances of pretending to be open while figuring out a nice way to toss up a huge roadblock.  Oh, by the way, that single bill would just about equal the entire cost that the US gov&#8217;t charged for <i>all<\/i> FOIA responses in 2008.  Why so expensive?  That&#8217;s not particularly clear.  Apparently, the guy filing the request even knows which file cabinets the information he needs is in, so it&#8217;s not like the gov&#8217;t has to go searching for it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091111\/0157526889.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091111\/0157526889.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20091111\/0157526889&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=13a6402ad566ef1c1bae963587b672de&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=13a6402ad566ef1c1bae963587b672de&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2225\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=M8nCV7Dan4k:UyHe3p1q3FM:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=M8nCV7Dan4k:UyHe3p1q3FM:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=M8nCV7Dan4k:UyHe3p1q3FM:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/M8nCV7Dan4k\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When President Obama took office, one of the very first things he did was declare that all government agencies should default towards openness in dealing with Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. It looks like some are trying to sneak around that a bit. Wired has the story of an FOIA request where the government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}