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[ilbegone]

How would the Freedom Of Information Act apply in this case?

I don't know much about it, but it seems that the Latino race movement has pried quite a bit of information from the Feds and others over the years.

[Ayatollahgondola]

Originally Posted by ilbegone

How would the Freedom Of Information Act apply in this case?

I don't know much about it, but it seems that the Latino race movement has pried quite a bit of information from the Feds and others over the years.

FOIA applies to federal entities only. However we have made some FOIA's in regards to this matter, and that's going OK thus far. In fact, it was part of the groundwork for this action. First thing we did was try to generalize the amount of ITIN's in use for a given year, then compartmentalize them by their areas of use. The feds issue them, and keep records of where they are used.

[ilbegone]

Another thing, and I may be barking up a wrong tree, but it seems the press has a right to stuff local entities otherwise stonewall on.

It may depend on lawsuits by the media to get the information dislodged, I seem to remember successful lawsuits over newspapers not being given access to municipal and county information

[Ayatollahgondola]

We've had another denial from the County of LA. This one is describing some sort of invasion of privacy again. I've contacted the FAC, and we hope to have some guidance from them on this. In the interim, I'm drawing up three more PRA's that don't require the names of the users. We'll still pursue the names through a legal challenge, but we'll try to get the remainder of the info through another PRA