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FOI requests: Exercising rights or clogging government?

March 07, 2011

A new public information law passed last year to make government more transparent to everyday citizens may have an unintended effect: Some DuPage County governments are complaining the law is being used by special interests groups to clog the system. The Blackwell Forest Preserve, for example, saw FOI requests jump from 40 to 187 in 2009 and 167 in 2010.

Source: http://dailyherald.com/article/20110307/news/703079961/
 
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