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The FOIA is a 1967 law that gives the American public the right to request access to records from any federal agency.
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Quotes in What the Eyes Don’t See
The What the Eyes Don’t See quotes below are all either spoken by Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) or refer to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 23
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Again and again, the state and federal officials’ disdain for Flint was shocking.
At the EPA, when asked about using federal money to buy water filters for city residents, the Region 5 Water Division chief […] wrote to the regional administrator and others, “I’m not so sure Flint is the community we want to go out on a limb for.”
The pointed cruelty. The arrogance and inhumanity.
Sometimes it is called racism. Sometimes it is called callousness. And sometimes […] it can be called manslaughter.
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Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Term Timeline in What the Eyes Don’t See
The timeline below shows where the term Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) appears in What the Eyes Don’t See. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 17: Meeting the Mayor
...department, the governor’s office, and more, as well as sending in Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to obtain state and EPA email records in hopes of finding some answers about...
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Chapter 22: Demonstration of Proof
Later, when Mona’s FOIA requests went through and the MDHHS emails became public, Mona would learn that the state...
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Chapter 23: All the Things We Found Out Later
...team would continue to find out more and more “troubling” things about the water crisis. FOIA releases revealed that the state had been denying claims of a water crisis since 2015...
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