Media lawyers nationwide are hailing recent amendments to the Freedom of Information Act, saying the new law will help end government secrecy by providing quicker and greater access to government information.
Perhaps the most crucial provision of the new law, lawyers maintain, is that it requires federal agencies to respond to FOIA requests within 20 days, ending the problem of reporters waiting for months, sometimes years, to get FOIA requests honored. Agencies that fail to meet the 20-day deadline can no longer collect fees for searching their records, nor charge media outlets duplication fees.
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