{"id":134860,"date":"2016-03-11T15:52:42","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T22:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=134860"},"modified":"2016-03-13T20:42:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T02:42:04","slug":"trying-and-trying-to-get-records-from-the-most-transparent-administration-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2016\/03\/trying-and-trying-to-get-records-from-the-most-transparent-administration-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Trying (and trying) to get records from the \u2018most transparent administration\u2019 ever"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Barack Obama promised that his would be “the most transparent administration in history.” But Obama hasn’t delivered. In fact, FOIA has been a disaster under his watch.<\/p><\/div>\n

COMMENTARY:<\/strong> Two years ago last month, I filed a public-records request to the Federal Emergency Management Agency as part of my reporting into the flawed response to Hurricane Sandy. Then, I waited.<\/p>\n

The Freedom of Information Act requires a response within 20 business days, but agencies routinely blow that deadline. Eight months later, ProPublica and NPR published\u00a0our investigation<\/a>\u00a0into the Sandy response, but it did not include any documents from FEMA. The agency had simply never gotten back to me.<\/p>\n