The Costs of FOIA – A Healthy Information Diet – InfoVegan.com

A case for opening up data as a cost saving mechanism: FOIA is one of those transparency things that sounds like a good idea, but in the end turns out to be kind of stupid. In 1974 when the law was put together, the House Committee on Government Operations said that FOIA’s cost should not […]

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Apr 13, 2011 1:00pm

A case for opening up data as a cost saving mechanism:

FOIA is one of those transparency things that sounds like a good idea, but in the end turns out to be kind of stupid. In 1974 when the law was put together, the House Committee on Government Operations said that FOIA’s cost should not exceed 100,000/yr — that’s about $450,000 in today’s dollars. Talk about gross underestimation. According to the new FOIA.gov from the Justice Department — the costs of FOIA are strongly outpacing both the growth of government and inflation.

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