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Environmental & Energy

Feb. 23, 2009

With Transparency Comes a More Efficient Government

Only time will tell if Obama's pledge to take FOIA requests seriously will be successful in the face of an entrenched bureaucracy, write Jeffrey Dintzer and Denise Fellers.

Jeffrey Dintzer

Partner, Alston & Bird LLP

333 S Hope St Ste 1600
Los Angeles , CA 90071

Phone: (213) 576-1063

Email: jeffrey.dintzer@alston.com

Boston University SOL; Boston MA

During over 30 years representing clients in complex environmental, toxic tort, and land use litigation, class actions, and administrative proceedings, he has been involved in precedent-setting cases affecting the way industries such as oil & gas do business in California.

FORUM COLUMN

By Jeffrey Dintzer and Denise Fellers

So far, President Obama is keeping his campaign promise to improve the federal government's openness and transparency. In a memorandum released by the White House press secretary on Jan. 21, Obama instructed all federal agencies to "adopt a presumption in favor" of Freedom of Information Act requests. Obama directed that "[a]ll agencies should adopt a presumption in favor of disclosure, in order to...

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