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Lawsuit seeks Ajit Pai's net neutrality talks with Internet providers
From: "Dave Farber" <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 11:27:38 +0000
---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com> Date: Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 3:40 AM Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Lawsuit seeks Ajit Pai's net neutrality talks with Internet providers To: Multiple recipients of Dewayne-Net <dewayne-net () warpspeed com> Lawsuit seeks Ajit Pai’s net neutrality talks with Internet providers FCC accused of not complying with FoIA request for Pai's talks with ISPs. By JON BRODKIN Jul 26 2017 < https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/07/lawsuit-seeks-ajit-pais-net-neutrality-talks-with-internet-providers/
The Federal Communications Commission was sued today by a group that says the commission failed to comply with a public records request for communications about net neutrality between FCC officials and Internet service providers. On April 26, a nonprofit called American Oversight filed a Freedom of Information Act (FoIA) request asking the FCC for all records related to communications on net neutrality between Internet service providers and Chairman Ajit Pai or Pai's staff. The group asked for "correspondence, e-mails, telephone call logs, calendar entries, meeting agendas," and any other records of such communications. The group also asked for similar records related to FCC communications with members of Congress, congressional staff, and members of the media. But American Oversight's lawsuit against the FCC says the commission hasn't complied with the requests. “The FCC has made it clear that they’re ignoring feedback from the general public, so we’re going to court to find out who they’re actually listening to about net neutrality," American Oversight Executive Director Austin Evers said in the group's announcement of its lawsuit. "If the Trump administration is going to let industry lobbyists rewrite the rules of the Internet for millions of Americans, we’re going to make them do it in full view of the public." (Evers was previously a US State Department lawyer.) FCC repeatedly asked for delays, lawsuit says American Oversight describes itself as an "organization committed to the promotion of transparency in government" that files public records requests to educate the public about federal government operations. The group's complaint against the FCC in US District Court for the District of Columbia was detailed in a Gizmodo story and is available here. "After initially agreeing to process American Oversight’s requests quickly, the FCC repeatedly delayed releasing the records even as the Trump administration continued its work to roll back the open Internet rules," American Oversight said. The FoIA law requires an agency to inform a records requester of the agency's decision to grant or deny access to requested records within 20 business days and to release the records shortly after that. The FCC repeatedly requested extensions after getting the FoIA request from American Oversight, the group's complaint says. The nonprofit agreed to the first two extension requests, giving the FCC until July 24 to respond. The FCC asked for another one-month extension on July 21, but American Oversight refused to agree to a third extension. Since the July 24 deadline passed, "American Oversight has received no further communication from FCC regarding the processing of its FOIA requests," the complaint said. American Oversight asked for a court order requiring the FCC to produce the required records within 20 days and to pay damages and court costs. [snip] Dewayne-Net RSS Feed: http://dewaynenet.wordpress.com/feed/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/wa8dzp ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/18849915-ae8fa580 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=18849915&id_secret=18849915-aa268125 Unsubscribe Now: https://www.listbox.com/unsubscribe/?member_id=18849915&id_secret=18849915-32545cb4&post_id=20170727072759:A136004A-72BE-11E7-A5BA-DC37A71EF224 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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