FOIA Act of 2014
"[The FOIA Oversight and Implementation Act of 2014] shifts the burden of proof from the public requester seeking information about a government agency...to the government being open and transparent unless it has a good reason to withhold."
- Darrell Issa
U.S. Representative from California, Chairman and ranking member of House Oversight and Government Reform Committee
March 15, 2013, as Issa was introducing the bill on the House floor
The FOIA Oversight and Implementation Act of 2014 passed unanimously in the U.S. House of Representatives on February 25, 2014 and is on its way to becoming a law.
What Would Change
Citizens' rights :
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