--- Cameron Schlehuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As the federal employee who has the pleasure of responding to helping > VHA > fulfill FOIA requests related to VistA, I also take an aggressive > posture > with regard to cajoling my colleagues into handing over anything that > would > be helpful for those outside the federal government who want to know > about > or use VistA and related products. And I have no problem with that at all. > e-FOIA law further requires that > such > materials be made available in readily formatted electronic media > when > multiple FOIA requests are made or anticipated to be made. > Right. > FOIA has a formal process when it is invoked. We sometimes bandy > about the > acronym using it rather loosely. > Uh...yeah. > FOIA -is- a legal "weapon". Note that FOIA is a means to -force- the > federal sector to release information that may be embarrassing or > deemed > counterproductive to the federal program. Absolutely. That was exactly what I had in mind when I referred to it as a sunshine law. > ... > My understanding is that the original notion of "draft" was put in to > FOIA > law so that, for example, federal employees giving speeches would not > have > drafts of their speeches subject to FOIA but only the delivered > speech. In > my conversations with the VHA FOIA Officer, software (applications, > packages, components, modules, etc.) that's actually been used in > production > for even a couple of weeks without changes was not considered to be > "draft". That would seem like a reasonable assumption to me. === Gregory Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Without the requirement of mathematical aesthetics a great many discoveries would not have been made." -- Albert Einstein ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
