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FCC Is Not Complying With Freedom of Information Act Requests, Alleges Lawsuit (arstechnica.com)
burtosis writes: The FCC is being sued for failure to turn over documents related to "correspondence, e-mails, telephone call logs, calendar entries, meeting agendas," between chairman Ajit or his staff and ISPs. Given the FCCs recent transparency issues, which appear to be directly ignoring the vast majority of feedback from Americans that are pro net neutrality, a nonprofit group called American Oversight is trying to force the real conversations the FCC is holding into public view. They are also asking for any communications with the media, Congress, and congressional staff. Two extensions for missed deadlines have been given, but the third extension was denied on July 24th. The FCC also ignored a FOiA request by Ars for the DDoS attack during the public comment period on net neutrality. With the current administration's attitude toward transparency and catering only to the largest corporate donors, will the American people have any meaningful influence in how the country is run anymore?
"With the current administration's attitude toward transparency and catering only to the largest corporate donors, will the American people have any meaningful influence in how the country is run anymore?"
Uh, current administration?
Can someone tell me when the last time any administration was completely transparent and somehow didn't cater to their largest corporate donors? For fucks sake, this has been going on so long it's now considered an American tradition. Not even you great grandfather remembers a time when this wasn't true.
The American People became irrelevant long ago.
The solution is simple: just don't record in meeting minutes or any fashion whatsoever the things you don't want the public to know about.
That seems like a strange "solution"
What you're saying is "the way to avoid committing a crime, is to commit a crime".
Tom Wheeler's FCC was much better about communicating with the public. The feedback mechanisms that Pai is ignoring were set up by that FCC.
I read the internet for the articles.
then [Hillary] didn't just turn them all over when they were requested
Except she did turn over everything relevant. Since there were intermingled emails, turning over everything was not necessary, no matter how it was painted or looked like. This doesn't mean her email use wasn't a huge error in judgement.
Like my company's default E-mail retention policy of 14 days. Crazy as it sounds, they do this for liability reasons (as well as limiting server space). Record retention policies are usually about limiting legal liability in the case of a lawsuit. "Oh, you want the E-mail from 30 days ago with that court order? Sorry, we only have 14 days worth due to our records retention policy..."
I'm not sure how that would fly should you actually go to court. You're required to keep certain types of documents for far longer than 14 days, whether they are in email or not.
The cesspool just got a check and balance.
"With the current administration's attitude toward transparency and catering only to the largest corporate donors, will the American people have any meaningful influence in how the country is run anymore?"
You seem to think this is a new phenomena but the American people DID NOT have meaningful influence with the previous administration or the one before that or the one before that, and so on...
I don't know about him but you will be pissed when Comcast or time warner charge $10 a month extra so you can stream from fox. Don't think that will happen? Both own the "fake" news and not fox so they can make a Devine stream that forces you to pay and since theirs travels on their network it is free.
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.