Book contents
- Saving the Freedom of Information Act
- Saving the Freedom of Information Act
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I FOIA And Democracy
- Part II Who Makes a Million FOIA Requests
- Part III Let Oversight Reign
- 9 The Problem with Repurposing FOIA
- 10 Affirmative Disclosure
- 11 Redesigning Agency Adjudications
- 12 Customizing Information Delivery
- Conclusion
- Appendices
- Index
12 - Customizing Information Delivery
from Part III - Let Oversight Reign
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 October 2021
- Saving the Freedom of Information Act
- Saving the Freedom of Information Act
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I FOIA And Democracy
- Part II Who Makes a Million FOIA Requests
- Part III Let Oversight Reign
- 9 The Problem with Repurposing FOIA
- 10 Affirmative Disclosure
- 11 Redesigning Agency Adjudications
- 12 Customizing Information Delivery
- Conclusion
- Appendices
- Index
Summary
Not all systems for providing information upon request have to be consolidated into FOIA. Agencies can and should look at their information constituencies and consider tailored mechanisms for releasing records to those groups of would-be requesters without forcing their requests into the FOIA queue. To be sure, Chapters 10 and 11 document forms of this strategy; affirmative disclosure and reforming administrative procedures are both alternatives to FOIA. But sometimes the strategy can be as simple as making a special process for requesting a certain type of record with uniform attributes and sensible shortcuts.
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- Saving the Freedom of Information Act , pp. 215 - 226Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021