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OpnState 1 year ago
Her ask was quite extensive. I can see them taking a lot of time to reply to it. I suggested she drills down to the humans behind the report and get emails. She can also foi any reports or research written by those specific individuals. She can then also look at the affiliations/history of the authors, etc.

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It would be cool if there was a site that is tracking pending foia requests and a group discussing how to improve them or enforce them. Obviously it gets into the practice of law so it’s tricky but I would be into supporting that.
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OpnState 1 year ago
Any FOI answer is public and unprotected by any disclosure laws, so a website could completely be done and would be 100% legal. In fact, many jurisdictions do publish all foi answers provided. You might have to dig a bit but most FOI answers are posted usually. What's missing is an easily searchable database a-la Wikipedia.