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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

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 communications 6. Personal privacy 7. For law enforcement purposes 8. Supervision of financial institutions 9. Geological information on wells FOIA AHC August 27, 2018 CivicActions
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 FOIA AHC August 27, 2018 CivicActions
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 FOIA AHC August 27, 2018 CivicActions
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 FOIA AHC August 27, 2018 CivicActions
Request vehicles 1. Email 2. API a. https://www.foia.gov/developer/agency-api/ FOIA AHC August 27, 2018 CivicActions
File and Request Queues FOIA AHC August 27, 2018 CivicActions
Integrations ● Single Sign On ○ MAX.gov ○ SimpleSAMLphp ● API Management ○ api.data.gov ■ Rate limiting ■ Keys ■ Analytics ■ Open source ● Virus scanning ○ ClamAV FOIA AHC August 27, 2018 CivicActions
The nerdy stuff Front-end Backend 18F Drupal 8 BLT Static HTML Migrations Agencies / Statistics (ongoing) jekyll Webform (Template) Webpack Behat & PHPUnit Kernel tests ¯\_( ツ )_/¯ https://github.com/usdoj/foia-api https://github.com/usdoj/foia.gov JSON API (front-end / public) https://www.foia.gov/developer/ FOIA AHC August 27, 2018 CivicActions
CivicActions FOIA Request Template https://trello.com/c/d8SNk2UL/51-foia-request-template FOIA AHC August 27, 2018 CivicActions
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