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5 - Other First-Person Requesting

from Part II - Who Makes a Million FOIA Requests

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 October 2021

Margaret B. Kwoka
Affiliation:
Ohio State University
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Immigration is such an outlier in FOIA practice it defies easy comparison. There are, however, many other circumstances in which people use FOIA to get information about themselves. In these contexts, agencies can be roughly grouped by type of first-person FOIA use. To be sure, some of these other agencies do receive first-person requests analogous to immigration requests; that is, requests made in conjunction with defending against enforcement and attempting to secure agency administered benefits. This section begins by detailing the agencies for which those two analogous uses apply, and then fills out the rest of the first-person FOIA requesting picture by describing trends across various federal agencies evidenced in the data obtained for this study.

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Print publication year: 2021

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