Getting Your Government Files Via the FOIA

An anonymous reader writes "The Bad Guys blog is marking America's third annual Sunshine Week: 'a national effort to cast light onto the growing recesses of government secrecy'. US News is offering up the latest information on the Freedom of Information Act, with links to filing FOI requests to US states, the federal government, and 67 other countries. 'Often the records can be obtained by simply asking for them, but since 9/11, federal agencies have grown increasingly stubborn about what they release. A just-released survey by the National Security Archive found that only 1 in 5 federal agencies meets congressionally mandated requirements for online information access. There's hope, though: A new bill is making its way through the House of Representatives, with bipartisan backing, that would strengthen the FOIA, one of a host of open government measures being looked at by the new Congress.'"

Comments

can someone please answer me something?

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why would anyone care what the government has on file about you?

i'm not talking about the secret police in a former east bloc country now, please, get real

just seems like a retarded exercise in vanity on the applicant's part, or a cry for help due to progressing paranoid schizophrenia