Accordingly, on
February 21, OIP sent the following Guide & Overview and Case
List distribution memorandum to the principal FOIA officers at all federal
agencies, specifying the procedures by which agencies should place their orders
for these publications with the Government Printing Office by no later than
April 26:
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TO: All
Federal Departments and Agencies
Attention:
Principal Administrative and Legal Contacts
for Freedom
of Information Act Matters
FROM: Richard
L. Huff
Daniel J. Metcalfe
Co-Directors
Office of Information
and Privacy
SUBJECT:
Freedom of Information Act Guide & Privacy Act Overview and
Freedom
of Information Case List, 2002 Editions
The 2002 editions
of the Freedom of Information Act Guide & Privacy Act Overview
and the Freedom of Information Case List are scheduled to be published
by the Office of Information and Privacy through the U.S. Government Printing
Office (GPO) in May.
The Freedom
of Information Act Guide & Privacy Act Overview will feature the "Justice
Department Guide to the Freedom of Information Act," as well as an overview
discussion of the provisions of the Privacy Act of 1974 that is prepared in
coordination with the Office of Management and Budget. It also will contain
the texts of those two access statutes.
The 2002 edition
of the Freedom of Information Case List will contain up-to-date lists
of cases decided under the Freedom of Information Act, the Privacy Act, the
Government in the Sunshine Act, and the Federal Advisory Committee Act -- as
well as the texts of those four access statutes and a list of related law review
articles. FOIA cases will be indexed through approximately April 12, 2002.
If your agency
would like to have multiple copies of these updated reference volumes, you may
obtain them at the original printing cost by "riding" the Department of Justice's
GPO requisition order. To do so, you should determine how many copies you will
want at the "rider" price (expected to be approximately $2.00 for each copy
of the Guide & Overview and $2.00 for each copy of the Case
List) and make arrangements with your printing officer to place your agency's
order by no later than April 26, 2002.
The GPO requisition
number for the Guide & Overview is 2-04921; for the Case List
it is 2-04926. When submitting a requisition for copies, you should use Standard
Form One (SF-1); Department of Justice components should use Form DJ-2. Offices
outside the Washington, D.C. area should contact their printing or publication
officers in Washington for their proper billing codes.
In light of the
Guide & Overview's new biennial publication cycle, it is essential
that each federal agency place an advance order for the full number of books
that it will require during the next two years. As for the Case List,
it was last published in September 1998 and any future publication schedule
for it has not yet been established, so agencies should plan accordingly.
For this edition
of these two volumes, this instruction letter will be mailed to you and it also
will be disseminated through FOIA Post. For future publication cycles,
however, this letter will be disseminated to all agencies exclusively through
FOIA Post.
As it has done
in the past, the Office of Information and Privacy will send one courtesy copy
of the Guide & Overview and of the Case List to each principal
FOIA contact at each agency. Additional copies must either be ordered in advance
at the special "rider" price or else purchased at the full price at a GPO bookstore
thereafter. For its last edition in May 2000, the bookstore price for the Guide
& Overview was $46.00 greater than the "rider" price; it is expected
that the "rider" price savings will be comparable for this edition.
OIP's publications
editor, Pamela Maida, is available to answer any questions on this subject at
(202) 514-5105.
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The Office of Information
and Privacy encourages all agency FOIA personnel to make sure that their agencies
place orders for the full numbers of these FOIA reference volumes that they
will need over the next two years, and to do so in a timely fashion.
(posted 2/22/02)
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