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Electronic Access to Government Records Flunks Test

Beth Daley writes on The Project On Government Oversight (POGO):

A new -- very excellent -- report from the National Security Archive finds that ten years after the Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments, “Only one in five federal agencies (21 percent) posts on the Web all four categories of records that the law specifically requires.”

The National Security Archive makes the excellent point that, if government agencies would post more of the kinds of information the public seeks through FOIA, they would save money by avoiding the staffing costs needed to answer the public’s requests.

posted by Fergie @ 3/12/2007 03:08:00 PM