Getting to Know the FOIA Advisory Committee: Nicholas Wittenberg

Today we present an interview with Nicholas Wittenberg, Corporate Counsel and Senior Advisor for Legal Technology and Innovation at Armedia and a member of the 2024-2026 FOIA Advisory Committee. This is part of a series of posts on the Committee, whose members are FOIA experts from inside and outside of government and who are appointed by the … Continue reading Getting to Know the FOIA Advisory Committee: Nicholas Wittenberg

Getting to Know the FOIA Advisory Committee: Marianne Manheim

Today we present an interview with Marianne Manheim, Chief of the FOIA, Privacy and Records Branch at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health at the Department of Health and Human Services and a member of the 2024-2026 FOIA Advisory Committee. This is part of a series of posts on the … Continue reading Getting to Know the FOIA Advisory Committee: Marianne Manheim

Getting to Know the FOIA Advisory Committee: Scott Hodes

Getting to Know the FOIA Advisory Committee: Scott Hodes Today we present an interview with Scott Hodes, Associate Counsel at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and a member of the 2024-2026 FOIA Advisory Committee. This is part of a series of posts on the Committee, whose members are FOIA experts from inside and outside of government and who … Continue reading Getting to Know the FOIA Advisory Committee: Scott Hodes

Getting to Know the FOIA Advisory Committee: Shelley Kimball

Today we present an interview with Shelley Kimball, Associate Communication Program Director and Senior Lecturer at Johns Hopkins University and a member of the 2024-2026 FOIA Advisory Committee. This is part of a series of posts on the Committee, whose members are FOIA experts from inside and outside of government and who are appointed by the … Continue reading Getting to Know the FOIA Advisory Committee: Shelley Kimball

Getting to Know the FOIA Advisory Committee: Kevin Bell

Today we present an interview with Kevin Bell, attorney-advisor at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and a member of the 2024-2026 FOIA Advisory Committee. This is part of a series of posts on the Committee, whose members are FOIA experts from inside and outside of government and who are appointed by the Archivist of the … Continue reading Getting to Know the FOIA Advisory Committee: Kevin Bell

OGIS Publishes Two New Ombuds Observers

Fernando Penalosa and Maria Teresa Inigo at the busy circulation desk. Through the open doors in back of the patrons at the desk is the entrance to the Main Reading Room. The reference desk is to its immediate right. National Archive Identifier 23932427 Today’s blog post was guest written by Dan Levenson. The Office of … Continue reading OGIS Publishes Two New Ombuds Observers

Getting to Know the FOIA Advisory Committee: Richard Peltz-Steele

Today we present an interview with Richard Peltz-Steele, Professor of Law at the University of Massachusetts School of Law and a member of the 2024-2026 FOIA Advisory Committee. This is part of a series of posts on the Committee, whose members are FOIA experts from inside and outside of government and who are appointed by the … Continue reading Getting to Know the FOIA Advisory Committee: Richard Peltz-Steele

FOIA Advisory Committee Meets on December 5

Roundtable discussion at the Congressional Black Caucus Delegation Educational Forum and Convention. National Archives Identifier 355307440 The next meeting of the 2024-2026 term of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Advisory Committee is on Thursday, December 5, 2024, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. ET.  The Committee will hear the mission statements and updates from … Continue reading FOIA Advisory Committee Meets on December 5

Getting to Know the 2024-2026 FOIA Advisory Committee Members

Photograph of Welcome Wagon Service. National Archives Identifier 202802859 During the 2020-2022 and 2022-2024 terms of the FOIA Advisory Committee, we profiled most of the members on this blog by asking them a few questions about their FOIA experience and what they hoped to accomplish on the Committee. Several returning members were previously profiled including David Cuillier, who … Continue reading Getting to Know the 2024-2026 FOIA Advisory Committee Members

Register Today for November 7 Chief FOIA Officers Council Meeting

As part of a brainstorming activity. members of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Committee are asked to share what they would like in a FOIA policy during the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) advisory committee meeting at the National Archives in Washington. DC. on July 21. 2016. NARA photo by Brogan Jackson. National Archives … Continue reading Register Today for November 7 Chief FOIA Officers Council Meeting