Jun 6, 2023

NPRM On FOIA


     The Social Security Administration posted a Notice of Proposed Rule-Making (NPRM) in the Federal Register today to amend its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) regulations to make them more consistent with 2016 changes in the FOIA and with recent guidance from the Attorney General.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Surprised it is only 20 indecipherable pages. Lawyers... :)

Evan Jones said...

@10:58 wait until you run across an extra page just for a statement of compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, in all its ironic Kafkaesque bureaucratic glory

Anonymous said...

Laws are complex, and Americans litigious and fairly dumb. So yeah, everything has to be idiot-proofed and asshole-proofed to the nth degree. And sometimes that takes 20 pages.