AG Moody[Florida] sues federal agencies for failing to respond to FOIA requests

TheCenterSquare ^ | 4/13/23 | Bethany Blankley

[CFW]

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody is suing two federal agencies for failing to respond to Freedom of Information requests filed over a year ago. The FOIA requests relate to a Biden administration program that allegedly used taxpayer money to purchase crack pipes for drug addicts, she said.

In February 2022, Florida sent FOIA requests to the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services asking for records about the use of federal grant funds being used to promote drug use through safe smoking kits, some of which reportedly included crack pipes and other drug-related paraphernalia.

Over a year later, neither agency responded to the FOIA requests and Moody sued.

The lawsuit states that the federal agencies “failed to process and make a determination regarding Florida’s February 9, 2022 FOIA requests within the statutory time limit and are unlawfully withholding records requested by Florida under 5 U.S.C. § 552.”

[CFW]

Federal agencies see FOIA requirements as suggestions which they can either ignore or lie about in their responses. They will often reply that they have no documents relevant to the requester's subject matter or else just ignore the requests altogether. There needs to be more robust requirements as to time limits for responding with severe penalties for unreasonable delays, lies, or a failure to respond.

Although it has been several decades since it has been true, our government officials are supposed to represent and be accountable to US, the people. Instead they have gotten to the point that they rule with an iron fist and fail to be transparent to the people they represent.

[Secret Agent Man]

Another thing they have done is send bills to the requestors for thousands of dollars or more, for fees for dealing with their FOIA request.

[Fai Mao]

David Paulides had the National Park Service bill him huge amount for FOIA request about people who go missing in the parks..

Take a look at his Missing 411 books when you are in a conspiratorial mood sometime

[Mark]

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[rllngrk33]

About 80 percent of the FedGov is useless, redundant and serves no purpose other than to find reasons to perpetuate and increase its power.

I say this as a retired FedGov employee.

[NWFree]

How many free crack pipes did hunter get from his daddy and when did he use them?

[Right_Wing_Madman]

About 80 percent of the FedGov is useless, redundant and serves no purpose other than to find reasons to perpetuate and increase its power.

Lincoln's cabinet was a Secretary of State, Secretary of Treasury, Secretary of War, Attorney General, Postmaster General, Secretary of Navy, and Secretary of Interior.

The US Constitution has failed to limit the scope and power of its central government. The 10th Amendment was supposed to prevent this, but the poor 10th has been mostly ignored or disregarded by all three branches of government in the last 100 years. After this system fails, the next constitution will need a balanced budget amendment and limits on taxation. The size of the central government will be limited by the amount of money it can seize from the citizens.

[waterhill]

All of Paulides’ work is a spoiler alert, not conspiracy.

[girlangler]

I am a freelance writer and sent FOIA requests to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for records in August 2022. They still haven’t provided them and won’t. Breaking the law. If I still worked for companies I would have access to a lawyer, but can’t afford to hire one myself and pay while this government agency runs the clock out.

[Joe Brower]

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