Obtaining Records Through FOIA As A Non-Profit
Obtaining Records Through FOIA As A Non-Profit Today, I’m going to talk about the special needs of nonprofit organizations, often called 501c3 organizations or not for profit organizations. You can think about in your community how many different organizations are out there that are in that category. They’re not in business to make money. They’re […]
Obtaining Records through FOIA as a Business
Obtaining Records through FOIA as a Business Our law firm is dedicated to making requests, making administrative appeals, and making judicial reviews under the Freedom of Information Act. I’ll use the acronym FOIA for the Freedom of Information Act. Today, we’re going to be talking about how FOIA interacts with the needs of business and […]
Obtaining Records through FOIA as a journalist, writer, or researcher
Obtaining Records through FOIA as a journalist, writer, or researcher Today, we’re going to be talking about a special class of people that FOIA strongly favors. Those people are writers, researchers, authors, journalists, bloggers, scientists who regularly publish, doctors who regularly publish, and basically people that get the word out about a given topic or […]
How Do FOIA Lawyers Charge Clients
How Do FOIA Lawyers Charge Clients I am Peter Sorensen. I’m with the Sorensen Law Office and all we do is Freedom of Information Act requests, administrative appeals, and judicial reviews of Freedom of Information Act matters. Today, I’m going to be talking about the two major methods that most FOIA lawyers and our law […]
Obtaining Records through FOIA as a Filmmaker
Obtaining Records through FOIA as a Filmmaker At Sorenson Law Office we’re a law firm that represents individuals, businesses, non-profits, journalists, and others in making Freedom of Information Act requests, administrative appeals, and judicial reviews. Today, I’m going to talk about the special needs of people that make videos. I’m talking about people that make […]
What are the 3 Stages of the FOIA Process?
What are the 3 Stages of the FOIA Process? REQUEST STAGE There are three phases to the FOIA process. The first one is the request phase. That’s where a person makes a written request to a FOIA officer asking for records over a specific period of time and hopefully a specific geography. That’s the first […]
What is FOIA?
What is FOIA? What is FOIA? The Freedom of Information Act, often called FOIA, is a federal law passed over 50 years ago, and it allows anyone in the world, businesses, individuals, partnerships, nonprofits, journalists. It allows anyone to make a request for records of a federal agency. At the Sorenson Law Office, we help […]
What is a FOIA Request and How Do I File?
What is a FOIA Request and How Do I File? What is a FOIA Request? A FOIA request is a written document that is sent to a Freedom of Information Act officer, and it makes a request for records. Notice first and foremost, it’s got to be written, so telephoning a federal agency and asking […]