On Freedom of Information Act Requests

December 18, 2013January 6, 2014 Pete Eyre 1350 Views cop block, copblock.org, Electronic Frontier Foundation, foia, Freedom of Information Act, public records request, reporters committee for freedom of the press, society of professional journalists, the foia project, Transparency, video

This video is admittedly not the most dynamic or awe-inspiring but I thought it worthwhile to put-together a video about Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, in the hope that it lessens the learning curve a bit and to point to another tool that those advocating transparency can utilize to obtain information.

The creation of this piece of content coincides with the publishing of a related page at http://copblock.org/foia That page is now listed at http://copblock.org/resources

If you have suggestions on how it can be made a better resource, or if anything is unclear, please do leave a comment here, or create some content of your own to address the subject. Thanks!

In the video below, Ademo Freeman, seeking more information related to the recent kidnapping and caging, and current levying of five threats toward Amanda BillyRock, shows just how painless this process can be:

Pete Eyre

Pete Eyre is co-founder of CopBlock.org. As an advocate of peaceful, consensual interactions, he seeks to inject a message of complete liberty and self-government into the conversation of police accountability. Eyre went to undergrad and grad school for law enforcement, then spent time in DC as an intern at the Cato Institute, a Koch Fellow at the Drug Policy Alliance, Directer of Campus Outreach at the Institute for Humane Studies, Crasher-in-Chief at Bureaucrash, and as a contractor for the Future of Freedom Foundation. In 2009 he left the belly of the beast and hit the road with Motorhome Diaries and later co-founded Liberty On Tour. He spent time in New Hampshire home, and was involved with Free Keene, the Free State Project and The Daily Decrypt.