FOIA Friday: Dealing with FOIA abuse and restrictions on FOIA access - AnnArbor.com. If you are a municipal administrator, you may be responsible for responding to citizen FOIA requests.
Generally this is a routine matter, but at times there may be a political conflict that causes someone to use the Michigan Freedom of Information Act laws as a weapon to harass, bully, hector or intimidate you or your staff with overly frequent, poorly written, and badly timed FOIA efforts. Or, perhaps, a citizen is trying to find something out, is frustrated with the municipal response and escalates his FOIA efforts until the two sides reach the point where they need to go to court to sort it out. Here's a review of two cases in Michigan where city officials have dealt with this problem, and some of the solutions they have tried to put into place.
FOIAchat. Transparency Directory - PEO. From PEO The Sunlight Foundation isn't the only organization traversing the open government landscape.
We owe a lot to the work of our peer institutions thinking and working alongside us. Consider this page a resource to get a grip on the different players out there and the different areas of interest to our movement. Government and Social Media Wiki - Main Page.