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FOIA www.foia.gov FOIA AHC August 27, 2018 CivicActions Exemptions 1. Classified / national security 2. Internal 3. Prohibited from disclosure by federal law 4. Trade secrets / confidential or privileged info 5. Privileged

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FOIA AHC August 27, 2018 CivicActions

FOIA

www.foia.gov

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Exemptions

1. Classified / national security 2. Internal 3. Prohibited from disclosure by federal law 4. Trade secrets / confidential or privileged info 5. Privileged communications 6. Personal privacy 7. For law enforcement purposes 8. Supervision of financial institutions 9. Geological information on wells

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The FOIA Improvement Act of 2016

  • Make records available in electronic form
  • Publish online records successfully requested 3 or more times
  • Limits government’s ability to charge fees for duplicating and searching for

records when fails to meet FOIA’s deadlines

  • OMB oversee creation of a single government-wide system for submitting

requests online

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How did we get here?

  • Office of Management and Budget

○ US Department of Justice, Office of Information Policy ■ Frontend

  • 18F

■ Backend

  • Acquia (Malik & Barrett)

■ CivicActions

  • Tom Camp, Dev
  • Dan Gurin, QA > Dev
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www.foia.gov

  • Learn

○ Text ○ Search

  • Request (Webform submission > Request Entity + optional File Entities)

○ Agency Component (Entity) ■ Agency (Taxonomy reference)

  • Open data

○ Agency Component Statistics ○ Electronic reading room

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Request vehicles

1. Email 2. API

a. https://www.foia.gov/developer/agency-api/

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File and Request Queues

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Integrations

  • Single Sign On

○ MAX.gov ○ SimpleSAMLphp

  • API Management

○ api.data.gov ■ Rate limiting ■ Keys ■ Analytics ■ Open source

  • Virus scanning

○ ClamAV

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The nerdy stuff

Front-end 18F Static HTML jekyll Webpack ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://github.com/usdoj/foia.gov Backend Drupal 8 BLT Migrations Agencies / Statistics (ongoing) Webform (Template) Behat & PHPUnit Kernel tests https://github.com/usdoj/foia-api JSON API (front-end / public) https://www.foia.gov/developer/

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CivicActions FOIA Request Template

https://trello.com/c/d8SNk2UL/51-foia-request-template

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