From the Pasadena Weekly:
Getting public records from the feds has grown more difficult, but efforts are being made to increase access
. . . The fact is, say scholars and experts in the field, reporters with daily and weekly newspapers typically rely instead on their respective states’ open records statutes to do their jobs, mainly because of the long periods of time it takes to get a response from a given agency being hit with a FOIA request, and because there is nothing in the legislation forcing compliance by the agency being asked for records.
This week, Lucy Dalglish, executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press in Arlington, Va., and members of her staff will be meeting with Democratic Congressman Henry Waxman of Woodland Hills, chair of the powerful House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which now includes the newly formed House Subcommittee on Information Policy, the Census and the National Archives. . .