The Right to Know: Your Guide to Using and Defending Freedom of Information Law in the United States

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Jacqueline Klosek

The Right to Know

Your Guide to Using and Defending Freedom of Information Law in the United States

Jacqueline Klosek

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Praeger Publishers Inc
22 June 2009

Freedom of information law

An attorney and certified information privacy professional offers a resource book for citizens seeking to understand, use, and defend their right to know under freedom of information laws in the United States.

The Right to Know: Your Guide to Using and Defending Freedom of Information Law in the United States sets out in plain language freedom-of-information best practices for ordinary citizens, activist organizations, journalists, bloggers, and lawyers.

Jacqueline Klosek, an expert in U.S. information law, educes practical lessons from dozens of case studies to show how readers can use freedom of information laws to protect themselves, but also to protect the environment, and public health and safety, as well as to expose governmental and corporate crime, waste, and corruption. Finally, the book shows American readers how, in contrast to what is going on in most democracies, their right to know is being progressively curtailed, why this is so dangerous to democracy, and what they can do to help reverse the alarming trend.

By: Jacqueline Klosek
Imprint: Praeger Publishers Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 531g
ISBN: 9780313359279
ISBN 10: 031335927X
Pages: 227
Publication Date: 22 June 2009
Recommended Age: From 7 to 17 years
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jacqueline Klosek Senior Counsel in Business Law for Goodwin Procter LLP, where she practices in intellectual property, data privacy, and technology security. A certified information privacy professional, she serves on the advisory board of the International Association of Privacy Professionals and as vice chair of the Information Services, Technology and Data Protection Committee of the American Bar Association. As adjunct professor at New York University, she taught international intellectual property law and the law of e-commerce. After taking her LLM in European and international law from the Vrije Universiteit, Brussels, she served as consultant on US information law to the directorate general of the European Commission. Klosek is the author of War on Privacy (Praeger, 2006), The Legal Guide to e-Business (Greenwood Publishing, 2003), and Data Privacy in the Information Age (Greenwood, 2000).

Reviews for The Right to Know: Your Guide to Using and Defending Freedom of Information Law in the United States

. . . this book will be of greatest use to those engaged in these battles to pry open the doors of government agencies. There are, [Klosek] notes, many exemptions to the law that prevent access, but she does provide practical methods for citizens to use the act to protect themselves and their communities. The most dangerous aspect of what is occurring is the increasing effort to deny Americans access to government generated information with which to make an informed analysis of what is really occurring. - Bookviews by Alan Caruba Jacqueline Klosek provides readers with a detailed analysis of the critical importance of the Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA). - Apex Reviews