Ensuring Transparency through the Freedom of Information Act

Testimony of Legislative Counsel Gabriel Rottman on behalf of the ACLU before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing on “Ensuring Transparency through the Freedom of Information Act.” In this testimony, the ACLU calls for members of the committee to support a number of common sense reforms to the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) both to bring this essential law further into the digital age and to close a number of loopholes that threaten transparency and, consequently, accountability.