BayBiotech.NET The U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is a law ensuring public access to U.S. government records. Upon written request, agencies of the United States government are required to disclose those records, unless they can be lawfully withheld from disclosure under one of nine specific exemptions in the FOIA as under: (1) Information specifically authorized under criteria established by an Executive order to be kept secret in the interest of national defense or foreign policy. (2) related solely to the internal personnel rules and practices of an agency; (3) specifically exempted from disclosure by statute provided that such statute requires that the matters be withheld from the public in such a manner as to leave no discretion on the issue, or establishes particular criteria for withholding or refers to particular types of matters to be withheld; (4) trade secrets and commercial or financial information obtained from a person. (5) inter-agency or intra-agency...
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