Mass Media Law by Pember Don & Pember Don

Author:Pember, Don & Pember, Don
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781260214857
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Published: 2017-10-17T04:00:00+00:00

AGENCY RECORDS

The broad outlines of the federal Freedom of Information Act, the nine areas of exempted information, and suggested ways in which a journalist or citizen can use the law are sketched out in the next few pages. One can write an open-records law in two basic ways. The first way is to declare that the following kinds of records are to be accessible for public inspection and then list the kinds of records that are open. The second way is to proclaim that all government records are open for public inspection except the following kinds of records and then list the exceptions. Congress approved the second kind of law in 1966, and it went into effect in 1967. The law has been amended several times, with

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substantial changes being enacted in 1974, 1976, 1986, 1996, 2002 (with the adoption of the Homeland Security Act), 2007 and 2016.

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