[open-government] FOIA Santa Comes Early to Sunlight!

Thu Dec 19 20:14:57 UTC 2013

FYI everyone:
http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2013/12/19/foia-santa-comes-early-to-sunlight/

FOIA Santa Comes Early to
Sunlight!<http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2013/12/19/foia-santa-comes-early-to-sunlight/>
by Kaitlin Devine <http://sunlightfoundation.com/people/kdevine/>

   - investigations <http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/investigations/>
   - policy <http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/policy/>

DEC. 19, 2013, 12:56 P.M.
[image: A picture of flash drives we received as a result of a FOIA
request.]

Photo: Tiina Knuutila/Sunlight Foundation

Recently, Sunlight filed our first FOIA
lawsuit<http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2013/11/18/sunlight-foundation-files-its-first-freedom-of-information-act-lawsuit/>
against
the GSA to get 14 years of data from FedBizOpps. The lawsuit came after
months of unresponsiveness from the agency. Just one day after we filed
suit, GSA hand delivered the fulfilled
request<https://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2013/11/21/a-foia-victory-for-sunlight-and-spending-transparency/>
to
our office — with an exception. They withheld the name and contact
information of the contracting officers from DoD and DHS, citing FOIA
exemption 5 U.S.C S 552(b)(6), an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.
We were perplexed, since this information is public on FBO.gov, just not in
aggregate. We announced our intent to pursue this data in the course of our
lawsuit. Imagine my surprise when I received an updated response from GSA,
complete with all the contact information!

So, as an early present to all of you, here are the unredacted files we
received from GSA:

   - FBO Data ReadMe<http://sunlight-public.s3.amazonaws.com/fbo_foia/fbo.data.ReadMe.docx>
   -
   http://sunlight-public.s3.amazonaws.com/fbo_foia/fbo_data_archive_Y12_13.zip
   -
   http://sunlight-public.s3.amazonaws.com/fbo_foia/fbo_data_archive_Y10_11.zip
   -
   http://sunlight-public.s3.amazonaws.com/fbo_foia/fbo_data_archive_Y08_09.zip
   -
   http://sunlight-public.s3.amazonaws.com/fbo_foia/fbo_data_archive_Y05_07.zip
   -
   http://sunlight-public.s3.amazonaws.com/fbo_foia/fbo_data_archive_Y00_04.zip
   - http://sunlight-public.s3.amazonaws.com/fbo_foia/fbo_data_active.zip

Happy Holidays everyone!

-- 
Júlia Keserű
International Program Coordinator

1818 N Street NW, Suite 300
Washington, DC 20036
(1) 202-742-1520 *280

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