Comments on: Request and investigate public records with MuckRock https://partnews.mit.edu/2017/02/14/request-and-investigate-public-records-with-muckrock/ Treating newsgathering as an engineering problem... since 2012! Wed, 15 Feb 2017 16:41:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2 By: AaronRose https://partnews.mit.edu/2017/02/14/request-and-investigate-public-records-with-muckrock/#comment-209621 Wed, 15 Feb 2017 16:41:07 +0000 http://partnews.brownbag.me/?p=8897#comment-209621 We came across that when doing our research. One might hope the online portal speeds things up by organizing requests in a better way for the FBI. I can’t imagine it gets much worse because they are already pretty slow at responding and actually fulfilling requests.

MuckRock actually posted an article about what the changes mean a few days ago: https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2017/feb/07/fbi-foia-portal-bad/

]]> By: Anne Crosby https://partnews.mit.edu/2017/02/14/request-and-investigate-public-records-with-muckrock/#comment-209581 Wed, 15 Feb 2017 04:30:37 +0000 http://partnews.brownbag.me/?p=8897#comment-209581 I believe I read this week that the FBI will no longer accept FOIA requests by email but will require written or faxed requests. The article I read speculated that it was an attempt to slow down response time. They will also accept requests via an “online portal.” I wonder what the impact will be.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/fbi-foia-requests-email/

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