{"id":328,"date":"2011-05-27T11:37:44","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T15:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.timcurran.com\/?p=328"},"modified":"2011-05-27T11:38:37","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T15:38:37","slug":"link-of-the-week-foia-requests-as-easy-as-pop-tarts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/27\/link-of-the-week-foia-requests-as-easy-as-pop-tarts\/","title":{"rendered":"Link of the Week: FOIA requests as easy as Pop-Tarts&trade;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never had to actually file a Freedom of Information request. But I&#8217;ve come close enough in the past that I had to research how to do it. Behold, the <a title=\"Federal Open Government Guide\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rcfp.org\/fogg\/index.php?index.html\" data-versionurl=\"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/amber\/cache\/2562f48c89e0dc17fb0dcda065f03a97\/\" data-versiondate=\"2026-01-09T16:42:18+00:00\" data-amber-behavior=\"\">Federal Open Government Guide<\/a>, published by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. It includes a very detailed but easy-to-read guide on what FOIA is, how it works, and how to formulate and file a request. To make it <em>truly<\/em> easy as pie (or PopTarts&trade;), you&#8217;ll find on this page a link to a tick-the-boxes automated request letter generator for federal <em>and<\/em> state FOIA requests.<\/p>\n<p>If I ever do need to file a FOIA request, this is where I&#8217;m starting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never had to actually file a Freedom of Information request. But I&#8217;ve come close enough in the past that I had to research how to do it. Behold, the Federal Open Government Guide, published by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. It includes a very detailed but easy-to-read guide on what FOIA is, how it works, and how to formulate and file a request. To make it truly easy as pie (or PopTarts&trade;), you&#8217;ll find on this page a link to a tick-the-boxes automated request letter generator for federal and state FOIA requests. If I ever do need to file a FOIA request, this is where I&#8217;m starting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":274,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,25],"tags":[46,44,45],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-research","tag-bureaucracy","tag-foia","tag-sunshine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Tim Curran","author_link":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/author\/timcurran-admin\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"I&#8217;ve never had to actually file a Freedom of Information request. But I&#8217;ve come close enough in the past that I had to research how to do it. Behold, the Federal Open Government Guide, published by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. It includes a very detailed but easy-to-read guide on what FOIA&hellip;","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pNBEQ-5i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/274"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":421,"href":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions\/421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}