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• W118534857 abstract "I. INTRODUCTION Congress passed the Electronic Freedom of Information Act (EFOIA) amendments in 1996, in response to the technology that has changed the way the government collects, archives, and disseminates information. (1) At the time, proponents of the amendments recognized that this technology could help promote the goals of the original Freedom of Information Act. (2) Given the speed and ubiquity of the Internet, it would seem that technology would help improve access to government information. What once may have taken months of letter writing should now be achieved by filling out an online form and clicking a button. However, as technology has removed old barriers to public records access, it has created some new ones in their place. The EFOIA amendments to the Freedom of Information Act were intended to ensure disclosure among government agencies at a time when technology was changing the way agencies maintained records. After EFOIA became law, progress toward achieving its goals was slow. Despite notable improvements, some important goals have still yet to be achieved ten years later. (3) The reasons range from a simple lack of available resources to the seeming reluctance on the part of lawmakers and agencies to treat the task of public records maintenance as an essential component of a transparent, democratic government. This Note looks at the reasons why these problems exist and will suggest ways to improve on the EFOIA amendments. Part II examines the development of public records laws, the policy goals the laws were meant to serve, the political and technological environment that these laws reflected, and challenges the laws have faced up until the passage of the EFOIA amendments. Part III evaluates the impact of the EFOIA amendments, considers the data that has been collected and congressional testimony that has served to measure benchmarks in EFOIA progress, and analyzes the strengths and weaknesses in some current efforts to strengthen access to electronic government documents. Finally, Part IV focuses on ways that public access laws could be improved, a comparison of the ways other countries administer their public records access laws, makes suggestions on ways to ensure that the government uses available technology, and discusses how the current way of thinking about access to public records needs to catch up with technological advances. II. HISTORY OF PUBLIC RECORDS LAW A. Pre-FOIA Legislation In order to understand the challenges that public records laws face, it is necessary to understand how the history of the laws reflects an evolution in the way legislators regarded public access. Public records laws were originally viewed as a means of organizing and archiving information. The first attempt at legislating the way the government handles public records came by way of the Administrative Procedure Act, passed in 1946. (4) However, the Act was not written as a means to ensure transparency and accountability; rather, it provided largely bureaucratic guidelines intended to facilitate housekeeping among the agencies by providing regulations for keeping records. (5) In fact, access was merely an afterthought, as became apparent in 1955 when Congress saw the need to clarify the new law to ensure that agencies would not interpret it as limiting disclosure. (6) It was around that time that Congress first considered passing what would become the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). (7) With computer technology still in its infancy, it was unlikely that Congress could have anticipated the impact technology would have on public records. When legislators began considering an overhaul of the existing laws, the entire federal government owned only forty-five computers. (8) It was against this backdrop of paper-and-ink recordkeeping that Congress passed the Freedom of Information Act in 1966. In the debate leading up to the passage of FOIA, legislators recognized that the most important aspects of the Freedom of Information Act would be its provisions for judicial review of agencies that deny access to information. …" @default.
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• W118534857 title "Democracy's Backlog: The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Ten Years Later" @default.
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