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The Freedom of Information Act is a United States federal statute enacted in 1966 to promote government transparency and the free exchange of public information. Under FOIA, any individual can request federal... more +
The Freedom of Information Act is a United States federal statute enacted in 1966 to promote government transparency and the free exchange of public information. Under FOIA, any individual can request federal agency records and enforce that right in a court of law. However, not all agency records can be requested; there are nine exempt categories of information. In addition to the federal law, many states have passed their own freedom of information acts. These acts are often similar but not always identical to the federal version.  less -
Polsinelli

To Disclose or Not to Disclose: OFCCP to Appeal Adverse EEO-1 Report Disclosure Order

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As previously reported, in late December 2023, the Northern District of California ordered OFCCP to release the EEO-1 reports of federal contractors it had previously withheld from production based on various exemptions under...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Unpacking Averages: Device Manufacturers Should Use the Newly Released Demographic Data in MDRs to Ensure Their Devices Are Not...

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As you may know, we have been submitting FOIA requests asking FDA to share data from its various programs.  In October, FDA granted our April FOIA request in which we asked the agency to add back demographic data fields that...more

Polsinelli

Federal Court Rejects Objections and Orders OFCCP to Disclose EEO-1 Reports

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Despite objections by thousands of employers and its own continuing review of records, the OFCCP has been ordered by a federal court to produce all EEO-1 Type 2 reports of federal prime contractors and first-tier...more

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Federal Court Orders OFCCP to Release Federal Contractors' EEO-1 Reports

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Executive Summary: On December 22, 2023, a federal court in California ordered the OFCCP to release the EEO-1 reports of federal contractors who had filed an objection to the agency’s release of their EEO-1 data in response...more

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[Webinar] Donald Trump, Mar-A-Lago & AI: Contextualizing The Presidential Records Act Scandal In An Era of Electronic Records -...

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The indictment of former President Trump in connection with boxes of records taken from the White House to Mar-A-Lago has spotlighted the importance of how classified records should be handled by government officials....more

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OFCCP (Again) Updates List of Contractors Whose EEO-1 Data Will Be Released

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As we previously reported, OFCCP has received a Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) request seeking federal contractors’ and subcontractors’ (collectively, “Contractors”) EEO-1 reports from 2016-2020. After publishing a list...more

Littler

OFCCP Again Extends Deadline for Submitting Objections to EEO-1 Disclosure, But New Wrinkles Added

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On February 14, 2023, OFCCP announced that it was again extending the deadline for employers to file objections to the disclosure of their EEO-1 data in response to a FOIA request from the Center for Investigative Reporting....more

Robinson+Cole Manufacturing Law Blog

Deadline Fast-Approaching for Specific Contractors to Object to Type 2 EEO-1 Report Disclosure

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In 2019, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) received an unprecedented Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from an investigative reporter (which was later amended), requesting Type 2 Consolidated...more

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OFCCP Update: Possible Public Disclosure of EEO-1 Information

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Federal contractors should be aware of a recent development that could result in the public disclosure of their EEO-1 information. The EEO-1 Component 1 report is a mandatory annual data collection requiring all federal...more

Cozen O'Connor

Is Your EEO-1 Report At Risk of Disclosure?

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The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) published a notice on August 19 in the Federal Register informing all federal contractors that it had received a Freedom of Information Act...more

FordHarrison

OFCCP Receives Media Request for EEO-1, Type 2 Report Filed by Federal Contractors

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On August 19, the Federal Register published a Notice that OFCCP received a request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) from the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR). CIR is seeking all federal prime contractors’...more

Littler

OFCCP Plans to Disclose Confidential Employer EEO-1 Data: Can Employers Protect Their Information?

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On August 19, 2022, OFCCP published a notice in the Federal Register for the stated purpose of advising employers that in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, it is planning to produce confidential...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

OFCCP Announces Notice of Widespread Request for Contractors EEO-1 Reports and Opportunity to Object

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According to OFCCP, on June 2, 2022, the Center for Investigative Reporting sent OFCCP a request for the disclosure of . . . "Type 2 EEO-1 reports for all federal contractors, including first-tier subcontractors, from...more

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[Webinar] Lighting the Way: 2021 Ediscovery Trends & Everlaw’s 2022 Predictions - January 6th, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST

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Last year was a time of change and disruption. The legal ecosystem has been impacted dramatically by legal professionals shifting to hybrid and remote working environments. As a result, adopting cloud-based solutions like...more

Reveal

To Address Growing FOIA Backlogs, Government Agencies Need to Govern More

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That’s all we need, right, for our government agencies to govern MORE? Let me explain. We tend to think about government agencies differently from other entities that may have discovery needs and they are different – to a...more

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[Online Conference] Information Governance, GDPR & Privacy, and eDiscovery - September 27th - 29th, 10:00 am - 1:30 pm CEST

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ZyLAB’s first online event, ZyLAB Europe Show, is happening! Join us for a three-day virtual conference to empower and connect legal & eDiscovery professionals. You'll gain strategic knowledge and new perspectives around...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Right To Hide The Truth: How Much Should Be Deleted?

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Is more information always better? If someone wants to limit the use of information, and others want to expose, discuss or publicize it, who wins?...more

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Supreme Court Issues Opinion Expanding the Scope of FOIA Exemption

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A common tactic by competitors is to seek adversaries’ (or even supply-chain partners’) data that is maintained by the United States, an individual state, or even municipal governmental agencies. These efforts are meant to...more

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[Webinar] Privacy Matters - December 10th, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST

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Join us for a conversation with Kenya Dixon, General Counsel and Operating Officer at the Empire Technologies Risk Management Group and former Director of Information Governance at the White House about how PII Identification...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

U.S. Customs Opens Mass Searches of Data on Confiscated Traveler Smartphones, Computers

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I am an advocate of providing law enforcement officers the newest technology to do their jobs well. If there is a recording of an event, the police should be able to use it. If a stingray can capture cell phone...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

Self-Collecting ESI Can Be A Dangerous Game

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The Honorable Shira Scheindlin once opined against allowing custodians of ESI to collect their data stating “[s]earching for an answer on Google (or Westlaw or Lexis) is very different from searching for all responsive...more

Williams Mullen

The Risk Game: Environmental Litigation Isn’t All Chance

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There is no magic formula to prevent an industrial source from becoming the target of a costly third-party administrative or legal environmental challenge.  These legal actions from environmental non-governmental entities...more

Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

EEO-1 Pay Data Rule: The EEOC Listened (Sort of)

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In our February 29, 2016 blog, we warned of concerns employers should have about the EEOC’s proposal to begin collecting pay data as part of the EEO-1 form, currently filed by employers with more than 100 employees and some...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

EEOC to Publish Update to EEO-1 Pay Data Reporting Proposal

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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has released an update with revisions to its proposed EEO-1 pay data collection report. The proposal would have employers with at least 100 employees submitting to the EEOC all...more

King & Spalding

CMS Proposes Sweeping Changes to Medicare Reimbursement for Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory Tests

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First Data Collection Period for Clinical Laboratories Is July 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015 - In the October 1, 2015 Federal Register, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a proposed rule...more

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