The Department Of The Interior Wants To Limit Public Records Requests : NPR

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Summary:

"Now a new rule proposed by Interior in December appears designed to make it harder for groups like Western Values Project to get those public records. The rule would give the agency greater discretion over how it handles public records requests. For instance, the agency would require individuals or organizations to be more specific in which documents they want. It also allows a cap on the number of documents Interior processes for individuals and organizations every month.

None of which sits well with Chris Saeger, the Western Values Project's executive director.

 

"What they are doing is a very thinly veiled effort to target critics of the Trump administration and to keep their corruption a secret," he said.

 

Western Values is a vocal and persistent critic of the Trump administration. It has filed 152 requests with the Interior Secretary's office since Trump took office. The agency's embrace of industry as part of its pro-energy agenda has, in part, led to a two hundred percent increase in Freedom of Information Act requests to the secretary's office from all kinds of groups and individuals...."

Link:

https://www.npr.org/2019/02/17/694466402/interior-dept-s-push-to-limit-public-records-requests-draws-criticism

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Date tagged:

02/17/2019, 15:04

Date published:

02/17/2019, 10:04