ANST - Re: Award Rec Letters
Kevin Varner
kvarner at planview.com
Tue May 26 13:12:07 PDT 1998
Thank you Daniel. I stand corrected. Duncan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Timothy A. McDaniel [SMTP:tmcd at crl.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 1998 2:28 PM
> To: ansteorra at Ansteorra.ORG
> Subject: Re: ANST - Re: Award Rec Letters
>
> Duncan MacConacher wrote:
> > The Freedom of Information [Act] of 1974 allows that possible
> > recipient to receive copies of any document in SCA
> > that has their name in it.
>
> That happens not to be the case (aside from the The World Is
> A Very Big Place exception that it would only apply in the
> US). My source is a rather long and detailed web page at
> http://www.aclu.org/library/foia.html
>
> The act "was passed by Congress in 1966 and amended in
> 1974". The Privacy Act was passed in 1974. They don't seem
> to have a separate page on the Privacy Act, but it's
> mentioned a little in the FOIA page. It has its own
> limitations and powers, but it appears to only apply to the
> feds too.
>
> "Although FOIA applies only to [certain] agencies of the
> federal government, every state has laws guaranteeing
> citizens access to the records of state agencies."
>
> "Requests cannot be made under the FOIA to the following, as
> the Act only applies to federal government agencies. -
>
> * State and local government agencies
> * Private businesses
> * Schools
> * Private organizations
> * Private individual records "
>
> Daniel [information deleted for national security reasons]
> --
> Tim McDaniel. Reply to tmcd at crl.com;
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