US/Freedom of Information Act

The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. § 552, was a federal freedom of information law that allowed for the full or partial disclosure of previously unreleased information and documents controlled by the United States government. The act still exists, and FOIA requests are still filed and responded too, in US and in other countries where similar legislation exists.

However after September 11^th, 2001, John Young reports increasing stonewalling by US government officials and these days almost no information of value. He said in 2013 that he makes only about 1 FOIA request per year and that he thinks that "the FOIA system should be closed as a money-wasting fraud."

UK FOI legislation

Similar legislation was enacted by the UK Parliament on 30 November 2000.

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