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Saving the Freedom of Information Act (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Saving the Freedom of Information Act (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Enacted in 1966, The Freedom of Information Act (or FOIA) was
designed to promote oversight of governmental activities, under the
notion that most users would be journalists. Today, however, FOIA
is largely used for purposes other than fostering democratic
accountability. Instead, most requesters are either individuals
seeking their own files, businesses using FOIA as part of
commercial enterprises, or others with idiosyncratic purposes like
political opposition research. In this sweeping, empirical study,
Margaret Kwoka documents how agencies have responded to the large
volume of non-oversight requesters by creating new processes,
systems, and specialists, which in turn has had a deleterious
impact on journalists and the media. To address this problem, Kwoka
proposes a series of structural solutions aimed at shrinking FOIA
to re-center its oversight purposes.
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