The Freedom of Information Act allows the news media to seek a faster response when asking for urgently needed records, but that request is almost never granted, Erin Carroll writes: "In 2014, agencies denied 87 percent of the 9,981 so-called 'expedited processing' requests made under FOIA … And the rejection rate at certain agencies is far higher. The Securities and Exchange Commission granted only three of the 253 expedited processing requests it received last year."
October 30, 2015
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