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public + hugo + +serve: + hugo serve + +serve-future: + hugo serve --buildFuture + +deploy: + hugo deploy prod diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8c415d5 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +# data-liberation-project.org + +This repository contains the content and publishing commands powering [data-liberation-project.org](https://www.data-liberation-project.org/). + +## Content + +The repository uses the [Hugo](https://gohugo.io/) website builder, and the content follows Hugo's structure and conventions. + +- [`config.toml`](config.toml): Hugo's top-level configuration file, including some website metadata and deployment details. +- [`content/`](content/): Markdown files each representing a page on the website. Each subdirectory also contains an `_index.md` file, which specifies the Markdown content for the subdirectory root page. + - [`content/singleton/`](content/singleton/): One-off pages, such as `/about`, `/contact`, and `/newsletter`, in addition to the 404 page. + - [`content/requests/`](content/requests/): One file per request we've filed. + - [`content/datasets/`](content/datasets/): One file per dataset we've released. + - [`content/documents/`](content/documents/): One file per non-data document set we've released. +- [`layouts/`](layouts/): HTML/XML files describing the layout and logic of each set of pages, largely corresponding to the `content/` structure above. Beyond that: [`layouts/shortcodes/`](layouts/shortcodes/) defines a couple of [custom Hugo shortcodes](https://gohugo.io/content-management/shortcodes/), [`layouts/partials/`](layouts/partials/) defines reusable components (such as the HTML header and footer, as well as the "chip" motif that appears in several parts of the site), and [`layouts/index.html`](layouts/index.html) defines the homepage layout. +- [`assets/css/index.css`](assets/css/index.css): The main CSS for the website. + +### Updating Requests + +When a request's status changes or there's another major development relating to it, you can reflect these changes in the file, by doing the following: + +#### 1. Add an entry to the `updates:` frontmatter list + +The page layout for requests accepts an `updates:` field in the Markdown file's frontmatter. E.g., here's an excerpt from [`content/requests/acl-adult-maltreatment-reporting-system.md`](content/requests/acl-adult-maltreatment-reporting-system.md): + +``` +updates: +- date: 2024-05-14T10:30:00-04:00 + title: Records Published + body: >- + On May 14, 2024, the Data Liberation Project [published the responsive records](/datasets/national-adult-maltreatment-reporting-system), along with [documentation](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gQVAWoC-vg__aN7YnZ_thkiCh2WbdCX9U0jIvrMiL5g/edit) describing what it has learned about them. +``` + +If the request's frontmatter does not already have an `updates:` field, you can add one. The field's type is a list of dictionaries, where each dictionary is an update and requires a `date`, `title`, and `body` field. To add the update, add a new dictionary entry. (The order does not matter; when rendering, the updates will be sorted by `date`.) + +#### 2. Update the `last_updated:` field + +This should match the date (without the time) of the new entry you added above. + +#### 3. Update the `status:` field (optional) + +If the status has changed in a substantial way (e.g., from Submitted to Acknowledged), update the `status:` field to reflect that. + +### Updating Datasets / Documents + +The process for updating dataset / document release pages is similar to that for updating requests, except that the `last_updated:` field should not necessarily match the most recent update, but *rather* the most recent date that *the DLP-published materials* were updated. + +## Building The Site + +To build the site, run `make build`; this will run `hugo build` and place the rendered files in the [`public/`](public/) directory. + +To serve the site locally, run `make serve` or `make serve-future` (the latter of which will also show future-dated pages). diff --git a/_default/single.html b/_default/single.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e69de29 diff --git a/archetypes/default.md b/archetypes/default.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..00e77bd --- /dev/null +++ b/archetypes/default.md @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +--- +title: "{{ replace .Name "-" " " | title }}" +date: {{ .Date }} +draft: true +--- + diff --git a/assets/css/index.css b/assets/css/index.css new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fa0cc34 --- /dev/null +++ b/assets/css/index.css @@ -0,0 +1,406 @@ +:root { + --bg-color: #F3F3F3; + --font-color: #333; + --font-color-on-bg: var(--font-color); + --link-color: #333; + --border-color: #333; + --shadow-color: #333; + --link-hover-color: #333; + --link-decoration-color: #ffdd00; + --accent-color: #ffdd00; + --input-bg: white; + --button-bg: #333; + --button-fg: #FCFCFC; + --button-hover-bg: var(--accent-color); + --button-hover-fg: var(--font-color-on-bg); + --font-weight: 400; + --blockquote-color: #666; +} + +@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) { + :root { + --bg-color: #2A2A2A; + --font-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.85); + --font-color-on-bg: #333; + --link-color: var(--font-color); + --border-color: #EEE; + --shadow-color: #665800; + --input-bg: #EEE; + --button-bg: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.85); + --button-fg: #121212; + --button-hover-bg: var(--accent-color); + --button-hover-fg: var(--font-color-on-bg); + --font-weight: 400; + --blockquote-color: #CCC; + } +} + +html { + box-sizing: border-box; + font-size: 16px; +} + +*, *:before, *:after { + box-sizing: inherit; 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The USDA’s [Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service](https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/home/) (APHIS) tries to make sure licensees meet those standards, and issues violation citations when they do not.  + +The agency provides an [online portal containing its inspections](https://efile.aphis.usda.gov/PublicSearchTool/s/inspection-reports) but, frustratingly, no option to download the full dataset. The portal’s structured data also lack important information, such as the type of inspection and the list of species inspected — information that is available only in the inspection report PDFs. + +The Data Liberation Project collaborated with [Big Local News](https://biglocalnews.org/content/about/)’s [Ben Welsh](https://palewi.re/who-is-ben-welsh/) to fetch the 80,000+ published inspection reports, parse the PDFs, and make the records all-around more useful. + +We're providing these main resources in [the project's GitHub repository](https://github.com/data-liberation-project/aphis-inspection-reports) (and also automatically updating them in the [biglocalnews.org](https://biglocalnews.org/) portal): + +- A [CSV spreadsheet of every inspection](https://github.com/data-liberation-project/aphis-inspection-reports/blob/main/data/combined/inspections.csv) (date, entity, inspection type, violation counts, license number, license type) going back to 2014.  +- Another [CSV listing all species-level counts of the animals inspected](https://github.com/data-liberation-project/aphis-inspection-reports/blob/main/data/combined/inspections-species.csv). +- An [RSS feed](https://data-liberation-project.github.io/aphis-inspection-reports/latest-inspections.rss) listing the inspections we've most recently *discovered*, and [another](https://data-liberation-project.github.io/aphis-inspection-reports/latest-critical-inspections.rss) limited to inspections with critical citations. + +We’ve also uploaded all the inspection report PDFs to a [public, searchable project on DocumentCloud](https://www.documentcloud.org/app?q=%2Bproject%3Ausda-aphis-inspection-rep-211004%20). diff --git a/content/datasets/bop-federal-inmate-deaths.md b/content/datasets/bop-federal-inmate-deaths.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3949f35 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/datasets/bop-federal-inmate-deaths.md @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +--- +title: Federal Inmate Deaths +date: 2024-09-18T00:00:00-04:00 +last_updated: 2024-09-18T00:00:00-04:00 +data_through: Early August 2024 +update_freq: FOIA-dependent +related_request: bop-federal-inmate-deaths +entrypoint: + title: Spreadsheet provided by agency + href: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VyoVX2PEQXSaUJ9dNTvJ36HNBE5tGLcy/edit +summary: A spreadsheet of each federal inmate death since 2005, including demographic and cause-of-death information. + +--- + +On August 8, 2024, the Data Liberation Project [filed a FOIA request](https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/bop-federal-inmate-deaths/) to the Bureau of Prisons seeking data records representing each federal inmate death since 2005. + +September 4, 2024, the agency [responded to the request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25141895-2024-09-04-determination-letter) and provided a [spreadsheet](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VyoVX2PEQXSaUJ9dNTvJ36HNBE5tGLcy/edit) with most of what we requested. + +The [spreadsheet](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VyoVX2PEQXSaUJ9dNTvJ36HNBE5tGLcy/edit) contains 8,242 entries, each representing a deceased inmate. It contains the following columns: + +- `RegisterNum`: [BOP Register Number](https://www.bop.gov/inmateloc/) +- `NameLast`: Last name; no first names provided +- `Sex`: Either "Female" or "Male" +- `Race`: Either "Asian", "Black", "Black-Hispanic", "Native American", "White", "White-Hispanic", "Unknown", or "Other" +- `DOD`: Date of death +- `InstID`: Assigned institution/facility (represented via BOP's standard three-letter codes) +- `DeathCategory`: One of 35 categories, such as "Cancer", "Drug Overdose", or "Pending Autopsy" +- `ICD10 Prime`: [ICD-10 code](https://www.cms.gov/medicare/coding-billing/icd-10-codes) for the primary cause of death, or "UNK" +- `ICD10 Second`: [ICD-10 code](https://www.cms.gov/medicare/coding-billing/icd-10-codes) for the secondary cause of death, or "UNK" + +The deaths date from January 1, 2005 through August 9, 2024. + +The data do *not* contain several of the fields we requested, as BOP's response letter indicates (emphasis added): + +> Specifically, the BOP does not track the __assigned housing location within the institution, the security level designation, or the institution entry date__ for the time frame you requested. Obtaining that information would require the BOP to conduct an unreasonably burdensome search through the records of each listed adult in custody (AIC). diff --git a/content/datasets/cfpb-enforcement-matters.md b/content/datasets/cfpb-enforcement-matters.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4c2390a --- /dev/null +++ b/content/datasets/cfpb-enforcement-matters.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +--- +title: CFPB Enforcement Relief & Penalties +date: 2023-10-11T00:00:00-04:00 +last_updated: 2023-10-11T00:00:00-04:00 +data_through: June 2023 +update_freq: FOIA-dependent +related_request: cfpb-enforcement-matters +entrypoint: + title: Introductory documentation + href: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bKkMicnyCpzXbE2SYbZ0gARK1DGSZcNrgWPWKHrPleY/edit +summary: Amounts and dates of court-ordered relief and penalties in Consumer Financial Protection Bureau enforcement matters. + +--- + +One of the [Consumer Financial Protection Bureau](https://www.consumerfinance.gov/)’s key roles is to [investigate and enforce](https://www.consumerfinance.gov/enforcement/life-cycle-of-enforcement-action/) potential violations of federal consumer finance laws. To track and organize those efforts, the CFPB uses an “enforcement matter management system” called ENForce. + +On May 30, 2023, the [Data Liberation Project](https://www.data-liberation-project.org) filed a [FOIA request for detailed tables from that system](https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/cfpb-enforcement-matters/). On September 18, 2023, the agency provided a [single spreadsheet](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QLJX90raianm8pE10dAKpVpGVoOPEIdc/edit) in response, listing the amounts and dates of court-ordered relief and penalties in those enforcement matters. + +Although the Data Liberation Project plans to appeal the agency’s response, we are [providing the spreadsheet now](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QLJX90raianm8pE10dAKpVpGVoOPEIdc/edit), along with [DLP-written documentation](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bKkMicnyCpzXbE2SYbZ0gARK1DGSZcNrgWPWKHrPleY/edit), so that the public can make use of it. diff --git a/content/datasets/cms-acute-hospital-care-at-home.md b/content/datasets/cms-acute-hospital-care-at-home.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8c3104d --- /dev/null +++ b/content/datasets/cms-acute-hospital-care-at-home.md @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +--- +title: “Acute Hospital Care at Home” Data +date: 2023-07-25T00:00:00-04:00 +last_updated: 2023-10-03T00:00:00-04:00 +data_through: September 13, 2023 +update_freq: FOIA-dependent +related_request: cms-acute-hospital-care-at-home +entrypoint: + title: Main documentation + href: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QThzzfaGWwq-RDd7fvQpTuUKJozBuQZJiFhcKt1ONX4/edit +summary: Waiver applications and weekly/monthly reporting metrics from hospitals participating in the Acute Hospital Care at Home program. + +--- + +In November 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) [announced](https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/press-releases/cms-announces-comprehensive-strategy-enhance-hospital-capacity-amid-covid-19-surge) a new waiver program, called Acute Hospital Care At Home (AHCAH), aimed at “providing eligible hospitals with unprecedented regulatory flexibilities to treat eligible patients in their homes.” + +More specifically, [CMS began](https://qualitynet.cms.gov/acute-hospital-care-at-home) “accepting waiver requests to waive §482.23(b) and (b)(1) of the Hospital Conditions of Participation, which require nursing services to be provided on premises 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and the immediate availability of a registered nurse for care of any patient.” + +Instead, for patients treated through the AHCAH program, “A registered nurse will evaluate each patient once daily either in person or remotely, and two in-person visits will occur daily by either registered nurses or mobile integrated health paramedics, based on the patient’s nursing plan and hospital policies,” according to November 2020 announcement. + +This allowed hospitals to receive Medicare (and certain Medicaid) payments for such home care. Per a [NEJM Catalyst article](https://catalyst.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/CAT.21.0338) reviewing the program, “This represented the first example of payment for this level of care at home for beneficiaries with Medicare Fee-for-Service (FFS) and — in certain states — non–managed care Medicaid.” ([According to CMS](https://qualitynet.cms.gov/acute-hospital-care-at-home/resources#tab2), “Medicare inpatient payments to a hospital will be the same as they would have been if the care was provided in a traditional inpatient setting.”) + +The waiver program is split into two tiers: Tier 1 waivers, available to hospitals that “provided at home acute hospital services to at least 25 patients previously,” and Tier 2 waivers, provided to those that had not. The application for Tier 1 waivers is simpler, and those hospitals have to report their key AHCAH metrics only monthly, rather than weekly. + +In order to continue participating in the program, hospitals with AHCAH waivers must submit [weekly/monthly metrics](https://qualitynet.cms.gov/acute-hospital-care-at-home/measures) (called “measures”) to CMS, indicating the number of AHCAH patients discharged from the hospital’s care, the number that died unexpectedly, and the number that required “escalation” back into a traditional hospital setting. + +When first issued in 2020, waivers were only meant to last for the duration of the [COVID-19 Public Health Emergency](https://www.hhs.gov/coronavirus/covid-19-public-health-emergency/index.html) (PHE). The PHE [officially](https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2023/05/09/fact-sheet-end-of-the-covid-19-public-health-emergency.html) ended on May 11, 2023. The [2023 Consolidated Appropriations Act](https://appropriations.house.gov/sites/democrats.appropriations.house.gov/files/FY23%20Summary%20of%20Appropriations%20Provisions.pdf), however, [extended](https://www.cmhealthlaw.com/2023/01/hospital-at-home-programs-extended-but-final-push-is-needed/) the AHCAH program until December 31, 2024. + +On January 27, 2023, the Data Liberation Project (DLP) — in collaboration with researcher [Maddy Varner](https://maddy.zone/), then a journalist at The Markup — [filed a FOIA request to CMS](https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/cms-acute-hospital-care-at-home/), seeking all database records representing AHCAH waiver requests received by CMS (and the agency’s processing of those requests), all AHCAH reporting measures submitted by hospitals (with the exception of patient-identifiable information), and all database documentation relevant to those records. + +On June 26, 2023, CMS provided a response to the DLP’s FOIA request. It contained four CSV spreadsheets, corresponding to: + +- Tier 1 waiver requests (undated, but likely through mid/late April, 2023) +- Tier 2 waiver requests (undated, but likely through mid/late April, 2023) +- Tier 1 reporting measures (through March 2023) +- Tier 2 reporting measures (through the week of April 10–16, 2023) + +On October 2, 2023, CMS provided an updated set of records — all waiver requests and reporting measures submitted through September 14, 2023 — with several improvements: + +- Each set of records now contains a Status and Created column, reflecting the waiver/measure status and the date the entry was created. +- The new release fixes an issue with the prior release, in which Measure 1c was missing for Tier 1 hospitals’ reported measures. +- A series of internal identifiers, which had led the Data Liberation Project to release only a (lightly) redacted version of the previous files, have been removed; the raw files in the new release are available to the public in full. + +To access these resources and learn essential context about them, [visit our main documentation for the data](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QThzzfaGWwq-RDd7fvQpTuUKJozBuQZJiFhcKt1ONX4/edit). diff --git a/content/datasets/dea-theft-and-loss-counts.md b/content/datasets/dea-theft-and-loss-counts.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..efd2a9a --- /dev/null +++ b/content/datasets/dea-theft-and-loss-counts.md @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +--- +title: Theft/Loss of Controlled Substances +date: 2023-05-16T00:00:00-04:00 +last_updated: 2023-05-16T00:00:00-04:00 +data_through: September 2022 +update_freq: FOIA-dependent +related_request: controlled-substance-theft-and-loss +entrypoint: + title: Raw and restructured files + href: https://github.com/data-liberation-project/dea-theft-and-loss-counts +summary: Counts and quantities of controlled substance and regulated chemical thefts/losses reported to the DEA, by state, business activity, and loss type, and year. + +--- + +The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) [requires](https://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/21cfr_reports/theft/index.html) all entities it has authorized to manufacture or handle [controlled substances](https://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/schedules/) and "[listed chemicals](https://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/chem_prog/34chems.htm)" to inform the agency about any "theft or significant loss of any controlled substance, disposal receptacles or listed chemicals within one business day of discovery of such loss or theft." + +In September 2022, the [Data Liberation Project](https://www.data-liberation-project.org/) (DLP) filed a [Freedom of Information Act request for database records corresponding to those reports](https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/controlled-substance-theft-and-loss/) (excluding fields containing narratives or personal information), plus all relevant database documentation. + +In May 2023, the DLP received the DEA's response. It contained a [determination letter 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23813617-2023-05-12-signed-det-65) and two spreadsheets. The two spreadsheets contain aggregate *counts* of theft/loss incidents, aggregated by state, business activity, type of loss, and year. + +The agency did not provide any of the underlying report data requested, nor the documentation requested. The DLP intends to appeal this outcome but, in the meantime, still sees the spreadsheets as useful contribution to public knowledge. + +To access the spreadsheets, reformatted versions, and additional documentation, [visit this GitHub repository](https://github.com/data-liberation-project/dea-theft-and-loss-counts). diff --git a/content/datasets/epa-risk-management-program-database.md b/content/datasets/epa-risk-management-program-database.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..af7be93 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/datasets/epa-risk-management-program-database.md @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +--- +title: EPA Risk Management Program Database +aliases: + - /datasets/epa-risk-managment-program-database +date: 2023-02-21T00:00:00-05:00 +last_updated: 2024-07-20T00:00:00-04:00 +data_through: Early July 2024 +update_freq: FOIA-dependent +related_request: epa-risk-management-program +entrypoint: + title: Main documentation + href: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jrLXtv0knnACiPXJ1ZRFXR1GaPWCHJWWjin4rsthFbQ/edit +summary: Data from the Risk Management Plans submitted by US facilities handling certain hazardous substances. + +--- + +Since the late 1990s, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has required facilities handling “extremely hazardous substances” to submit “risk management plans” (RMPs) **at least every five years**, detailing the **chemicals they use**, the **risks that usage poses**, **what the facility is doing to minimize accidents**, and a **five-year accident history**. As the [EPA summarizes](https://www.epa.gov/rmp/risk-management-program-rmp-rule-overview): + +> Section 112(r) of the Clean Air Act Amendments requires EPA to publish regulations and guidance for chemical accident prevention at facilities that use certain hazardous substances. These regulations and guidance are contained in the Risk Management Program (RMP) rule. The RMP rule requires facilities that use extremely hazardous substances to develop a Risk Management Plan which: +> +> - identifies the potential effects of a chemical accident, +> - identifies steps the facility is taking to prevent an accident, and +> - spells out emergency response procedures should an accident occur. +> +> These plans provide valuable information to local fire, police, and emergency response personnel to prepare for and respond to chemical emergencies in their community. Making RMPs available to the public also fosters communication and awareness to improve accident prevention and emergency response practices at the local level.  +> +> The RMP rule was built upon existing industry codes and standards. It requires facilities that use listed regulated Toxic or Flammable Substances for Accidental Release Prevention to develop an RMP and submit that plan to EPA. + +In October 2022, the [Data Liberation Project](https://www.data-liberation-project.org/) (DLP) filed a [Freedom of Information Act request for a copy of the EPA’s RMP database](https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/epa-risk-management-program/), excluding the “Off-Site Consequence Analysis” (OCA) part of the submissions, which [40 CFR Part 1400](https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-40/chapter-IV/subchapter-A/part-1400) deems non-disclosable.  + +Beginning in December 2022, the DLP has received and processed several versions of the database: + +- In December 2022, the DLP received a CD with a "March 2022" version of the database, containing RMP submissions __through February 2022__. Per the EPA’s point-of-contact for this FOIA request, on November 10, 2022: “The most up to date non-OCA national database information is from March 2022 and we are working to update the information.” +- In June 2023, as soon as the EPA indicated that it was able to produce updated records, the Data Liberation Project [submitted a follow-up request](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23840360-2023-06-09-epaolem-rmp-update-foia-request-singer-vine). In July 2023, the DLP received, processed, and published those records, which cover RMP submissions __through June 2023__. +- In November 2023, the DLP obtained and published another update of the database, containing RMP submissions __through October 2023__. +- In January 2024, the DLP obtained and published another update of the database, containing RMP submissions __through late January 2024__. +- In April 2024, the DLP obtained and published another update of the database, containing RMP submissions __through late March 2024__. +- In July 2024, the DLP obtained and published another update of the database, containing RMP submissions __through early July 2024__. + +Since first receiving the records, the Data Liberation Project and volunteers undertook efforts to understand, document, and process the data. We are providing: + +- The [raw records](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1hSAgWacQOIVLg2rqO6z6TEqPJSQmDNn4) received via FOIA +- Those records [converted to a SQLite database file](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1TtbkJ_OFHTiJa6GPedTma3fR6im-6xHX) +- A [simple facility/submission browser and viewer](https://data-liberation-project.github.io/epa-rmp-viewer/) +- A [set of simple spreadsheets](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/170UIeg_sweeqGWVQrjHWY-HNRqEPE9axbEroSEr4C3M/edit) providing an overview of each facility, submission, and reported accident + +To learn essential context about these resources, [visit our main documentation for the data](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jrLXtv0knnACiPXJ1ZRFXR1GaPWCHJWWjin4rsthFbQ/edit). diff --git a/content/datasets/federal-inmate-complaints.md b/content/datasets/federal-inmate-complaints.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..98a6fd0 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/datasets/federal-inmate-complaints.md @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +--- +title: Federal Inmate Complaints +date: 2024-07-09T00:00:00-04:00 +last_updated: 2024-07-09T00:00:00-04:00 +data_through: Late May 2024 +update_freq: FOIA-dependent +related_request: federal-inmate-complaints +entrypoint: + title: Introductory documentation + href: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vTuyUFNqS9tex4_s4PgmhF8RTvTb-uFMN5ElDjjVHTM/edit +summary: Data on 1.78 million complaint/appeal submissions filed by federal prison inmates between January 2000 and late May 2024, spanning nearly 1 million distinct cases. + +--- + +The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP)’s [Administrative Remedy Program](https://www.bop.gov/policy/progstat/1330_018.pdf) “allow[s] an inmate to seek formal review of an issue relating to any aspect of his/her own confinement.” BOP tracks those complaints through SENTRY, the agency’s “[primary mission support database](https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/legacy/reports/BOP/a0325/final.pdf)”. + +In October 2022, the [Data Liberation Project](https://www.data-liberation-project.org/) filed [a request](https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/federal-inmate-complaints/) to BOP, seeking a copy of all database records stored in SENTRY’s “Administrative Remedy System module.” Through a series of phone calls and emails, BOP indicated that the agency did not have the capacity to export the complete set of requested records, but was able to export a substantial subset of data-points for each case. On June 10, 2024, BOP [provided](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24796144-2024-06-10-foia-request-2023-00373) those records to the Data Liberation Project. + +The records provide data on 1.78 million complaint/appeal submissions filed by federal prison inmates between January 2000 and late May 2024, spanning nearly 1 million distinct cases. + +The records indicate when each filing was received, the case number the filing pertains to, the general category of complaint, the facility where the issue occurred, case status, status update date, reasons for rejection/closure, and other details. + +To the best of our knowledge, the Data Liberation Project's publication of these records represents the first time that national, filing-level federal inmate complaint data have been made available to the general public. + +To get started with the data, please consult the Data Liberation Project's [introductory documentation](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vTuyUFNqS9tex4_s4PgmhF8RTvTb-uFMN5ElDjjVHTM/edit). diff --git a/content/datasets/national-adult-maltreatment-reporting-system.md b/content/datasets/national-adult-maltreatment-reporting-system.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d96700f --- /dev/null +++ b/content/datasets/national-adult-maltreatment-reporting-system.md @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +--- +title: National Adult Maltreatment Reporting System +date: 2024-05-14T00:00:00-04:00 +last_updated: 2024-05-14T00:00:00-04:00 +data_through: September 2022 +update_freq: FOIA-dependent +related_request: acl-adult-maltreatment-reporting-system +entrypoint: + title: Introductory documentation + href: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gQVAWoC-vg__aN7YnZ_thkiCh2WbdCX9U0jIvrMiL5g/edit +summary: Agency- and case-level data from “the first comprehensive, national reporting system for adult protective services programs.” + +--- + +In February 2023, the [Data Liberation Project](https://www.data-liberation-project.org/) filed [a request](https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/acl-adult-maltreatment-reporting-system/) to the Department of Health and Human Services’s [Administration for Community Living](http://acl.gov/node) (ACL), seeking a copy of all records in the agency’s  [National Adult Maltreatment Reporting System](https://acl.gov/programs/elder-justice/national-adult-maltreatment-reporting-system-namrs) (NAMRS), “the first comprehensive, national reporting system for adult protective services (APS) programs.” + +The system “[consist\[s\] of three components](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/02/16/2023-03266/agency-information-collection-activities-proposed-collection-comment-request-national-adult)”: + + +> (1) Descriptive data on state agency and practices from all states through the “Agency Component,” and +> +> (2) Case-level, non-identifiable data on persons who receive an investigation by APS in response to an allegation of abuse, neglect, or exploitation through “Case Component”, or +> +> (3) For states that are unable to submit a case-level file through the “Case Component,” a “Key Indicators Component” will be available for them to submit data on a smaller set of core items. + +On April 10, 2024, ACL provided a data transfer that completed its provision of records in response to this request, including substantial portions of all components described above. + +To get started with the records, please consult the Data Liberation Project's [introductory documentation](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fzj-0DEpM2o5s37R7ixI2khjAbYDbT655EvnKWyvVkg/edit). diff --git a/content/datasets/nics-firearm-background-checks.md b/content/datasets/nics-firearm-background-checks.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..07d4712 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/datasets/nics-firearm-background-checks.md @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +--- +title: Firearm Background Check Counts +date: 2024-04-14T00:00:00-04:00 +data_through: Ongoing +update_freq: Monthly +entrypoint: + title: GitHub repository + href: https://github.com/data-liberation-project/nics-firearm-background-checks +summary: Monthly counts of firearm background checks run by the FBI by month, state, and firearm type. + +--- + +The FBI publishes aggregated data from its [National Instant Criminal Background Check System](https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/nics). Unfortunately, the agency only posts those records as PDFs, rather than structured data files. + +The Data Liberation Project runs a [open-source data pipeline](https://github.com/data-liberation-project/nics-firearm-background-checks) that downloads the most detailed of these PDFs — containing monthly counts of firearm background checks run by month, state, and firearm type — and extracts their data. + +The project was created by Jeremy Singer-Vine (now Data Liberation Project founder) while at BuzzFeed News in 2015. In 2023, [BuzzFeed News shut down](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/). In April 2024, the Data Liberation Project forked the [original repository](https://github.com/BuzzFeedNews/nics-firearm-background-checks) and resumed its operation. diff --git a/content/datasets/niosh-commercial-fishing-incident-database.md b/content/datasets/niosh-commercial-fishing-incident-database.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a41098c --- /dev/null +++ b/content/datasets/niosh-commercial-fishing-incident-database.md @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +--- +title: Commercial Fishing Incident Database +date: 2024-07-08T00:00:00-04:00 +last_updated: 2024-07-08T00:00:00-04:00 +data_through: 2022 +update_freq: FOIA-dependent +related_request: niosh-commercial-fishing-incident-database +entrypoint: + title: Data and documentation provided by agency + href: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1sSS-gvKWsuq0rBJ1-9_ipIJp79piGEJX +summary: A national database of “fatalities and vessel disasters that occur in the US fishing industry.” + +--- + +The [Commercial Fishing Incident Database](https://web.archive.org/web/20220122120301/https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/fishing/projects.html) (CFID) “is a surveillance system managed by [the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)] to collect information on fatalities and vessel disasters that occur in the US fishing industry.” The database enables the government to [ask questions](https://homeport.uscg.mil/Lists/Content/Attachments/938/NIOSH%202010%20high-risk.pdf) such as, “Where are the most hazardous fisheries?” “What are the worst problems?” “What causes fatalities in hazardous fisheries?” and “Where will prevention efforts be most effective?” + +In January 2023, the Data Liberation Project [filed a FOIA request](https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/niosh-commercial-fishing-incident-database) to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) — NIOSH’s parent agency — seeking a copy of the database (minus fields containing personally-identifiable information) and all relevant database documentation. + +In subsequent communications with the Data Liberation Project, the CDC indicated that it could not provide the database in its original structure (a series of interrelated tables) but rather as "a linked dataset (a single Excel sheet with all seven data tables already linked but without the linking identifier) that excludes PII and incorporates strategies for reducing disclosure risk, such as the removal, redaction, or modification of variables[.]" The Data Liberation Project agreed to modify the scope of its request to allow for that. + +On May 17, 2024, the CDC [provided](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24795731-2024-05-17-final-response-with-redactions) several [data and documentation files](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1sSS-gvKWsuq0rBJ1-9_ipIJp79piGEJX) in response to the request: + +- [The "linked dataset"](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1my93Blw3pcvYRhavZwK5FAFVIoFHE5m3/edit?gid=637997818#gid=637997818), containing 3,559 rows (each representing a person affected by an incident, as well as characteristics about the incident) and 157 columns. +- [A data dictionary](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JkrLVt1QzF0KEHrPinteETcOn_5HLYdc/edit?gid=683540711#gid=683540711), which describes the meaning and formatting of the database fields. +- [An 80-page PDF](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R3bw7QmoLZCa-xWByuUpiNmF0IQY1xm8/view) titled, "NIOSH Commercial Fishing Incident Database (CFID) v2.0: Standard Operating Procedures and Guidelines for Data Management." The CDC has redacted some portions of the document. +- [A spreadsheet translating various numeric codes to their descriptions](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jBcyrvxWFwNtp4Hywbz2QVYw93zvQrfN/edit?gid=33267759#gid=33267759). + +Unfortunately, some characteristics are represented only very coarsely. For example, incident dates are not provided, only year ranges: `2000-2002`, `2003-2007`, `2008-2012`, `2013-2017`, or `2018-2022`. Similarly, incident locations are provided only as Pacific/Atlantic and the number of miles from shore. diff --git a/content/datasets/peace-corps-resignations.md b/content/datasets/peace-corps-resignations.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..52dc036 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/datasets/peace-corps-resignations.md @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +--- +title: Peace Corps Resignation Counts +date: 2023-10-10T00:00:00-04:00 +last_updated: 2023-10-10T00:00:00-04:00 +data_through: July 31, 2023 +update_freq: FOIA-dependent +related_request: peace-corps-resignations +entrypoint: + title: Spreadsheet provided by agency + href: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1h7Fj67isuuFUX5lW10IE6B6Cn1bvGtF9/edit +summary: Counts of resigned Peace Corps volunteers by post and resignation reasons. + +--- + +If a Peace Corps volunteer chooses to resign from their position (as opposed to ending their service due to a medical condition or regional political situation), an assessment of the reason for this resignation is made by a supervising staff officer and collected via [Form MS-284 Attachment D](https://files.peacecorps.gov/documents/MS-284-Attachment-D.pdf) (“Resignation Form”). + +[Our FOIA request](https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/peace-corps-resignations/) sought all database records collected through that form. At first, the Peace Corps sent [a document with few details and all of the numbers redacted](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23870103-2023-05-02-resignation-reasons_redacted). The Data Liberation Project and co-requestor [Corin Faife](https://corinfaife.co/) successfully appealed that initial response; upon [granting the appeal](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24024460-2023-08-11-23-0186-appeal-response-letter), the agency provided a [spreadsheet](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1h7Fj67isuuFUX5lW10IE6B6Cn1bvGtF9/edit#gid=1422850053) listing the number of resigned Peace Corps volunteers by post and resignation reasons through July 2023. + +Each row in the spreadsheet indicates: + +- The Peace Corps post — generally a single country but with some exceptions, such as “ALBANIA/MONTENEGRO” and “EASTERN CARIBBEAN” +- The primary reason listed for resignation (if any), from a set of possible categories — e.g., “Personal/Family,” “other career opportunity,” or “Peace Corps policies” +- The secondary reason listed (if any), from the same set of categories +- The number of volunteers corresponding to that post/primary-reason/secondary-reason through July 2023 + +⚠️ __Note__: The Peace Corps says it cannot vouch for the accuracy of the data. Footnotes in the [initial document](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23870103-2023-05-02-resignation-reasons_redacted) provided by the agency say: + +> • Data on resignation reason is best guess from Peace Corps overseas staff. +> +> • Data is not used for agency analysis, as it is deemed not trustworthy. +> +> • Data is collected through “Attachment D” – which is currently being removed from Volunteer exit interview. +> +> • Data collected from “Attachment D”(data that was requested) is currently in the process of being removed from database. +> +> • Any analysis done on this data is not an accurate reflection of Volunteer resignation reasons. + +And the [appeal-granting letter](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24024460-2023-08-11-23-0186-appeal-response-letter) notes, “I reiterate that Peace Corps has not confirmed the accuracy of the data in the database as described in the Footnotes of the original document.” diff --git a/content/datasets/phmsa-hazmat-incident-reports.md b/content/datasets/phmsa-hazmat-incident-reports.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7b0bb27 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/datasets/phmsa-hazmat-incident-reports.md @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +--- +title: Hazmat Transportation Incident Reports +date: 2023-02-28T00:00:00-05:00 +data_through: Ongoing +update_freq: Daily +entrypoint: + title: GitHub repository + href: https://github.com/data-liberation-project/phmsa-hazmat-incident-reports +summary: Decades of hazardous material transportation incidents reported to the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration via Form `5800.1`. + + +--- + + +[Federal law](https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-49/subtitle-B/chapter-I/subchapter-C/part-171/subpart-B/section-171.16) requires transportation-related spills, explosions, and other safety-endangering [incidents involving hazardous materials](https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-49/subtitle-B/chapter-I/subchapter-C/part-171/subpart-B/section-171.15#p-171.15\(b\)) to be reported to the [Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration](https://www.phmsa.dot.gov/) (PHMSA). + +Specifically, "each person in physical possession of a hazardous material at the time that any of [certain types of incidents] occurs during transportation (including loading, unloading, and temporary storage) must submit a Hazardous Materials Incident Report on DOT Form F 5800.1 [...] within 30 days of discovery of the incident". + +These ["5800.1" forms](https://www.phmsa.dot.gov/sites/phmsa.dot.gov/files/docs/IncidentForm010105.pdf) include details about the location of the incident, mode of transportation, parties involved, hazardous materials involved, causes of failure, fatalities, injuries, financial cost, and more. + +PHSMA publishes the submitted reports [through an online portal](https://www.phmsa.dot.gov/hazmat-program-management-data-and-statistics/data-operations/incident-statistics). That portal, however, is brittle and does not provide a straightforward mechanism to download the full set of submitted reports. + +The Data Liberation Project has fetched, and is updating daily, all reports available through that portal, and [making them available in bulk for further analysis](https://github.com/data-liberation-project/phmsa-hazmat-incident-reports). diff --git a/content/datasets/tsa-complaint-counts.md b/content/datasets/tsa-complaint-counts.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..be83894 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/datasets/tsa-complaint-counts.md @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +--- +title: TSA Complaint Counts +date: 2024-02-21T00:00:00-05:00 +data_through: Ongoing +update_freq: Daily +entrypoint: + title: GitHub repository + href: https://github.com/data-liberation-project/tsa-complaint-counts +summary: Monthly counts of Transportation Security Administration traveler complaints by airport, category, and subcategory. + + +--- + +In its [FOIA Electronic Reading Room](https://www.tsa.gov/foia/readingroom?page=0), the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) publishes semi-regular reports on the monthly numbers of traveler complaints by airport, category, and subcategory. + +Unfortunately, they post these data only as PDFs ([e.g.](https://www.tsa.gov/sites/default/files/foia-readingroom/tsa-contact-center-traveler-complaints-report-may-2023.xlsm_.pdf)), rather than as [machine-readable data files](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine-readable_medium_and_data#Data), posing substantial barriers to further analysis. + +It’s an approach to “transparency” that leaves much to be desired. So the Data Liberation Project has built [a data pipeline](https://github.com/data-liberation-project/tsa-complaint-counts/tree/main) that converts those PDFs into CSV files. Now you can access the complaint counts as [tidy, standardized, machine-readable data](https://github.com/data-liberation-project/tsa-complaint-counts/tree/main?tab=readme-ov-file#data-guidance). + +The records cover complaints at 440+ airports going back to January 2015; the Data Liberation Project aims to keep the pipeline and dataset updated. diff --git a/content/datasets/unaccompanied-children-oversight-records.md b/content/datasets/unaccompanied-children-oversight-records.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ace7f57 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/datasets/unaccompanied-children-oversight-records.md @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +--- +title: Unaccompanied Child Incident Reports +date: 2023-10-12T00:00:00-04:00 +last_updated: 2023-10-12T00:00:00-04:00 +data_through: Late 2022 +update_freq: FOIA-dependent +related_request: unaccompanied-children-oversight-records +entrypoint: + title: Introductory documentation + href: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ch1_yS5bD5F7iyJakLFX7UAZMj0U9X1Dh4mNDMA9-UE/edit +summary: Incident reports submitted by government-funded facilities caring for unaccompanied immigrant children. + +--- + +The [Office of Refugee Resettlement](https://www.acf.hhs.gov/orr) (ORR), part of the [Administration for Children & Families](https://www.acf.hhs.gov/) (ACF), is [officially responsible](https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/uac-program-fact-sheet.pdf) for the care of every unaccompanied child, “defined as a child who has no lawful immigration status in the United States; has not attained 18 years of age; and, with respect to whom, there is no parent or legal guardian in the United States, or no parent or legal guardian in the United States available to provide care and physical custody.” + +ORR-funded facilities [provide](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24017594-supporting-statement-admin-and-oversight-051022-clean) “care and custody for \[unaccompanied children] until they can be safely released to a sponsor, repatriated to their home country, or obtain legal status. \[...] Services provided at care provider facilities include, but are not limited to, education, recreation, vocational training, acculturation, nutrition, medical, mental health, legal, and case management.” + +ORR monitors the care facilities it funds, and it imposes a range of requirements, including that facilities submit reports when certain types of incidents occur. + +Through a [FOIA request to ACF](https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/unaccompanied-children-oversight-records/), the Data Liberation Project has received 20 database tables with information about these incidents and reports. Unfortunately, the Data Liberation Project has some concerns about the completeness of the records — most notably, a core table seems to be missing. + +In communications with ACF, the agency appears to be aware of the situation and willing to rectify it. But because the Data Liberation Project doesn't know how long it will take to receive the missing records, and because some portions of the records may still be useful to the public in the meantime, we are releasing what we have so far. To familiarize yourself with the records and their caveats, please consult the Data Liberation Project's [introductory documentation for this data](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ch1_yS5bD5F7iyJakLFX7UAZMj0U9X1Dh4mNDMA9-UE/edit). diff --git a/content/datasets/uscg-boating-accident-report-database.md b/content/datasets/uscg-boating-accident-report-database.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3257f20 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/datasets/uscg-boating-accident-report-database.md @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +--- +title: Boating Accident Report Database +date: 2024-08-12T20:00:00-04:00 +last_updated: 2024-08-12T20:00:00-04:00 +data_through: 2023 +update_freq: FOIA-dependent +related_request: uscg-boating-accident-report-database +entrypoint: + title: Introductory documentation + href: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lk0dnACzcj3Yo6DAjZbGKf_zFYkymor5IDwNxypnZpc/edit +summary: Data on 58,430 boating accidents that occurred in 2009–2023 and were reported to state authorities. + +--- + +The US Coast Guard (USCG) maintains the **Boating Accident Report Database (BARD)**, which serves as a central, national database of recreational boating accidents. The data come from submissions of [CG-3865](https://www.dcms.uscg.mil/forms/smdsearch4081/3865/), a form that boat operators [must file to state authorities when](https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/33/173.55), “as a result of an occurrence that involves the vessel or its equipment”: + +> (1) A person dies; +> +> (2) A person is injured and requires medical treatment beyond first aid; +> +> (3) Damage to vessels and other property totals $2,000 or more or there is a complete loss of any vessel; +> +> (4) A person disappears from the vessel under circumstances that indicate death or injury. + +_(Note: The $2,000 threshold was $500 prior to July 2, 2001.)_ + +The reports (and database) include details about each accident, vessel, death, and injury involved. + +In January 2023, the Data Liberation Project (DLP) [filed](/requests/uscg-boating-accident-report-database/) a [Freedom of Information Act request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23588840-2023-01-27-dhsuscg-boating-accident-report-database-foia-request-singer-vine) seeking a full copy of the database, minus fields containing personally-identifiable information. The request also sought all relevant database documentation. + +In April 2024, a representative of USCG contacted the DLP to ask whether we would consider narrowing our request so that it began with the year 2009: “Releasable data for years 2009-2022 is available for release, meaning records have been reviewed extensively to eliminate personally identifiable information and have been cleared for release by the State agencies that submitted them. However, years prior to 2009 would need to be reviewed for releasability, which would take a considerable amount of time.” The DLP agreed, and also agreed to wait for the release until the 2023 records were available. + +On July 12, 2024, the USCG provided the requested records, which the Data Liberation Project is making fully available to the public: + +- [Three Microsoft Access (.accdb) database files](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1f_9Y6Q6PaoTSgNOYCH8DqTwuOnfmQH-c?usp=drive_link), each covering a distinct time period (2009–2013, 2014–2022, and 2023). To increase the accessibility of the records, the Data Liberation Project has also converted these files into [three additional formats](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1i21VMwkCmAlyWpFh1u1b80JFIA870Dg3): [SQLite](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lVAg-LLy9jo5UZsznsSxIbxTnrv7lt0O?usp=drive_link), [CSV](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1iUdp1wxP25kU2yCMSDs90R24FiUhpzln?usp=drive_link), and [Parquet](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DUQFs6N8ZtZr66Jsma0ruF0EMZQlrt-R?usp=drive_link). + +- [A database dictionary](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lHcn5g46CHG5UGxKCNbwFj3jRh0p5Jjz/edit) describing the data’s tables and fields. + - Based on the specific fields included, it appears that this dictionary is based on the 2014–2022 version of the database. + +- [A “notes” file](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bBrOJ3ib15340AoLpVR6s0n8MXnJHMEN/edit) describing the compilation of the records, from the USCG Office of Auxiliary and Boating Safety. + +In total, the records describe: + +- 58,430 boating accidents +- 78,316 vessels involved in those incidents +- 8,935 deaths connected to those incidents +- 36,773 injuries connected to those incidents + +To get started with the data, please consult the Data Liberation Project's [introductory documentation](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lk0dnACzcj3Yo6DAjZbGKf_zFYkymor5IDwNxypnZpc/edit). diff --git a/content/datasets/usda-organic-program-enforcement.md b/content/datasets/usda-organic-program-enforcement.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e5f6061 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/datasets/usda-organic-program-enforcement.md @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +--- +title: USDA Organic Program Enforcement +date: 2024-04-09T00:00:00-04:00 +last_updated: 2024-04-09T00:00:00-04:00 +data_through: Early January 2024 +update_freq: FOIA-dependent +related_request: usda-organic-program-enforcement +entrypoint: + title: Spreadsheet provided by agency + href: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gHNKxVObWfm1Q1JzkhDl8Wx4wKIPU-Wp/edit?usp=drive_link +summary: Outcomes of investigations spurred by complaints submitted to the USDA's National Organic Program. + +--- + +The US Department of Agriculture’s [National Organic Program](https://www.ams.usda.gov/about-ams/programs-offices/national-organic-program) “launched the COMPLIANCE Database in March 2019," according to [an agency report](https://www.ams.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media/NOPEnforcementUpdateMay2019.pdf). The tool allows the organization “to better track case progress and more quickly identify patterns and relationships across complaints.” + +In December 2023, we [filed a FOIA request](https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/usda-organic-program-enforcement/) seeking a comprehensive set of complaint, investigation, and outcome records from this database, as well as documentation concerning the database’s structure and interpretation. + +On March 12, 2024, the agency sent its [first interim response 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24536945-2024-03-12-2024-ams-00070-f-first-interim-response-letter), providing a [spreadsheet](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gHNKxVObWfm1Q1JzkhDl8Wx4wKIPU-Wp/edit?usp=drive_link) that appears to list all *closed* investigations in the database. + +The spreadsheet contains 1,501 entries. Its twelve columns indicate the following information for each case: + +- Case number +- NOP case number +- Subject/title +- Regulatory citations +- Account/company name +- Complaint type ("Uncertified Operation" being the most common, followed by "Fraud", "Pesticide Residue", "Labeling Error", and several others) +- Complaint subtype +- Inquiry received date/time +- Case opened date/time +- Case closed date/time +- Outcomes (e.g., "Compliance", "No Violation", "No Investigation", "Civil Penalty", etc.) +- Collected amount (for civil penalty outcomes) + +"[The USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service] will continue to process the remainder of your request and will forward any responsive records promptly upon completion of review," according to the agency's interim response letter. diff --git a/content/datasets/usgs-water-use-inventory.md b/content/datasets/usgs-water-use-inventory.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7edc6e3 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/datasets/usgs-water-use-inventory.md @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +--- +title: Water Use Inventory Records +date: 2024-04-08T00:00:00-04:00 +last_updated: 2024-04-08T00:00:00-04:00 +data_through: 2021 +update_freq: FOIA-dependent +related_request: doi-water-use-inventory +entrypoint: + title: Introductory documentation + href: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fzj-0DEpM2o5s37R7ixI2khjAbYDbT655EvnKWyvVkg/edit +summary: Site-level records from the USGS's water use inventory, indicating volumes of and types of water conveyed in a given year. + +--- + +The Department of the Interior's US Geological Survey (USGS) is in charge of maintaining a “comprehensive national water use inventory.” In March 2023, the Data Liberation Project [co-filed a FOIA request](https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/doi-water-use-inventory/) to USGS, seeking its most detailed data records from that inventory. + +In conversations with the FOIA team at USGS, the Data Liberation Project agreed to narrow the request’s focus to records that existed as structured data — forgoing records that the agency only had in PDF, Word, or other non-structured formats. + +On March 6, 2024, USGS provided a [set of responsive records](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1pUKjcHcTBfpZULAY05EbOqL5Ih8g9LW6?usp=drive_link): + +- 50 state/territory-specific spreadsheets, containing site-level water conveyance data, covering 49 states (minus New Jersey) and Puerto Rico +- 1 spreadsheet containing conveyance data for “multiple states for which there is only withdrawal information but no delivery information” +- 1 data dictionary spreadsheet + +The conveyance spreadsheets contain 823,552 rows in total, each representing a *measured or estimated* volume of water conveyed between two “sites” in a given year. + +Unfortunately, USGS has redacted the majority of site identifiers (as well as many other details) under FOIA exemption 7. The Data Liberation Project's research also has also identified issues with incompleteness and duplication in the records. + +Even so, we believe that the records are of substantial public value, and appear to be the first time national, site-level conveyance data has been publicly available. + +To get started with the records, please consult the Data Liberation Project's [introductory documentation](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fzj-0DEpM2o5s37R7ixI2khjAbYDbT655EvnKWyvVkg/edit). diff --git a/content/datasets/va-ssvf-survey-data.md b/content/datasets/va-ssvf-survey-data.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6018c8a --- /dev/null +++ b/content/datasets/va-ssvf-survey-data.md @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +--- +title: Veterans Affairs SSVF Survey Data +date: 2023-08-17T00:00:00-04:00 +last_updated: 2023-08-17T00:00:00-04:00 +data_through: September 2022 +update_freq: FOIA-dependent +related_request: ssvf-satisfaction-surveys +entrypoint: + title: Main documentation + href: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1unanFEUnBDVBMK9pmpb0EVvRlpB-jtRC6gwlXSN-If4/edit +summary: Data and reports from satisfaction surveys evaluating VA Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) program providers. + +--- + +The US Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) [Supportive Services for Veteran Families](https://www.va.gov/homeless/ssvf/index.html) (SSVF) program [awards grants](https://www.va.gov/homeless/ssvf/ssvf-overview/) to “selected private non-profit organizations and consumer cooperatives that will assist very low-income Veteran families residing in or transitioning to permanent housing.”  + +According to the SSVF’s [fiscal year 2021 annual report](https://www.va.gov/HOMELESS/ssvf/docs/SSVF_Annual_Report_FY21.pdf), the program “has served a cumulative total of 732,042 Veterans” and distributes hundreds of millions of dollars per year. + +As part of the [regulations governing the program](https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-38/chapter-I/part-62), rule [38 CFR 62.36(c)(2)](https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-38/part-62#p-62.36\(c\)\(2\)) mandates that SSVF grantees “must provide each participant with a satisfaction survey […] within 30 days of such participant’s pending exit from the grantee’s program.” Those surveys, which (at least in recent years) have been conducted by [a contractor](https://www.mdavisco.com/practice-areas/veteran-affairs/case-study-veteran-affairs_01/), can be completed online or over the phone. They include a series of questions about the services the participant received, and their degree of satisfaction with those services. + +In October 2022, the [Data Liberation Project](https://www.data-liberation-project.org/) filed a [Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request](https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/ssvf-satisfaction-surveys/) to the VA for data records corresponding to those satisfaction surveys. In July 2023, the department [provided](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23914787-2023-07-21-vha-co-full-grant-revised) a set of [Excel files with anonymized response-level data](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1UJOsVa3o98S_FCH5EHnc1aRm7xWipjz0) for surveys conducted March 2016 through September 2022 (with the exception of October 2020 – September 2021, i.e., fiscal year 2021[^1]), corresponding to nearly 40,000 survey responses. The VA also provided a [series of PDF reports](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1OEoPBmer8b83fU7a4InEqtt48i6H1aHc) containing analyses of the survey responses. The reports go back to 2015, although the content and formatting vary by year. + +The Data Liberation Project is sharing all of those records with the public. You can access them [via Google Drive](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1KqG8-EKZbc2pl7KUR85OyHWj9nv-_Tnx) and/or [via GitHub](https://github.com/data-liberation-project/va-ssvf-survey-data). + +To learn more, [visit our main documentation for the data](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1unanFEUnBDVBMK9pmpb0EVvRlpB-jtRC6gwlXSN-If4/edit). + +[^1]: According to an email from the VA, “SSVF did not have an active customer service program during FY 21, and therefore there is no data report to share.” (Clarification added September 22, 2023.) diff --git a/content/documents/_index.md b/content/documents/_index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3bec5ff --- /dev/null +++ b/content/documents/_index.md @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +--- +title: Documents +cascade: + outputs: + - html + - rss +--- + +Some of the Data Liberation Project's requests seek *documents* about datasets, rather than the datasets themselves. These documents help us to better understand government data systems and to craft follow-up requests for the data. Below are the documents we've liberated so far. diff --git a/content/documents/cfpb-enforcement-database-documentation.md b/content/documents/cfpb-enforcement-database-documentation.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e690fee --- /dev/null +++ b/content/documents/cfpb-enforcement-database-documentation.md @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +--- +title: CFBP Enforcement Database Documentation +date: 2023-04-14T00:00:00-04:00 +last_updated: 2023-04-14T00:00:00-04:00 +data_through: Undated +update_freq: Not planned +related_request: cfpb-enforcement-database-documentation +summary: A six-page document describing the structure of `ENForce`, CFPB's “enforcement matter management system.” + +--- + +One of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s key roles is to [investigate and enforce](https://www.consumerfinance.gov/enforcement/life-cycle-of-enforcement-action/) potential violations of federal consumer finance laws. To track and organize those efforts, the CFPB uses an “enforcement matter management system” called `ENForce`. + +In response to [our FOIA request for documentation of such systems](../requests/cfpb-enforcement-database-documentation/), the CFPB sent the Data Liberation Project a [six-page document](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23777876-2023-04-14-cfpb-2023-0206-f-binder) that describes some of `ENForce`'s structure. + +The document includes: + +- A diagram of the database's data model +- The database's entity relationship diagram +- A table "list all Standard and Custom objects used to support the application" + +The title page also indicates that `ENForce` is a Salesforce-powered application. diff --git a/content/documents/dol-file-plans-and-eis-listings.md b/content/documents/dol-file-plans-and-eis-listings.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..37009e0 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/documents/dol-file-plans-and-eis-listings.md @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +--- +title: DOL File Plans and EIS Listings +date: 2023-07-05T00:00:00-04:00 +last_updated: 2023-07-05T00:00:00-04:00 +data_through: Late 2019 / Early 2020 +update_freq: FOIA-dependent +related_request: dol-file-plans-and-eis-listings +summary: Department of Labor files describing the physical/digital locations of key records, plus listings of the agency's major "electronic information systems". + +--- + +On March 27, 2023, the [Data Liberation Project](https://www.data-liberation-project.org/) (in collaboration with [Marc DaCosta](https://marcdacosta.com/about/index.html)) sent the Department of Labor [a request](https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/dol-file-plans-and-eis-listings/) for two categories of records: + +- All "[file plans](https://www.archives.gov/files/records-mgmt/training/material/l1-008/index.html#/lessons/MdHIahEUzvo9gH9BpfVYtucnIwlP9AFc)," which describe the kinds of records a government agency holds and how/where they're stored. +- All "[electronic information system](https://www.archives.gov/records-mgmt/scheduling/inventory-systems) listings," a similar concept but specific to databases. + +On June 15, 2023, the DOL sent us a set of files, accompanied by a [determination letter regarding the request](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23866900-2023-06-15-foia-f-08834-signed). + +In all, after un-zipping the files, there appear to be **425 documents**. By format: 236 Microsoft Word files, 99 Excel files, 70 PDF files, 13 `.msg` files, and 7 `.rtf` files. (Note: Some of the files are duplicates or near-duplicates of one another.) + +The Data Liberation Project is making the files available to all. You can access them in two ways: + +- As a [folder on Google Drive](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1USE50Io6S-0AkbMG_L29m68YlV9Kxav2?usp=sharing), available to download in bulk +- As a [project on DocumentCloud](https://www.documentcloud.org/app?q=+project:dol-file-plans-and-eis-li-213626%20), where you can search across all records (excluding the 13 `.msg` files) + +To help organize the files, the Data Liberation Project has also created a [spreadsheet listing them](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1L77Idw7tyhq2mRP-KHWfTzachuuTJlowc1h4lmFvqYU/edit), indicating their: + +- Directory +- Filename +- Extension (e.g., `.xlsx`) +- Size (in kilobytes) +- Subagency for which the file was created +- Category of record (file plan, electronic information listing, etc.) +- Brief notes from the Data Liberation Project, clarifying the file's purpose/contents + +The most recent files appear to have been created in late 2019 / early 2020. "DOL has not created any new files plans or EIS listings since those dates," according to the Department of Labor's FOIA coordinator for this request, in follow-up correspondence with the Data Liberation Project. + +Most of the files are specific to a subagency (such as the [Wage and Hour Division](https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd)), sub-subagency, or field office. A few files, however, appear to be DOL-wide. The two most notable are these: + +- [`DRAFT of 2015 EIS Review.xls`](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NNzI4SIdoyTfU8z9diCbW56D1JGzIdGw/edit), which lists and describes hundreds of DOL electronic information systems, including investigation case management systems, price-tracking databases, and survey files. +- [`2018 EIS Reivew 2018_Complete.xlsx`](ttps://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bs6E5H-wTtzIg4oQFXF32Hnz7IKGjXZr/edit), a similar file that appears to be more recent but possibly includes fewer systems. diff --git a/content/documents/eeoc-ims-documentation.md b/content/documents/eeoc-ims-documentation.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b99ab72 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/documents/eeoc-ims-documentation.md @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +--- +title: EEOC Integrated Mission System Documentation +date: 2023-02-23T00:00:00-05:00 +last_updated: 2023-11-03T00:00:00-05:00 +data_through: Undated +update_freq: FOIA-dependent +related_request: eeoc-ims-documentation +summary: Documentation of the main database that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission uses to track discrimination complaints and investigations. + +--- + +On November 29, 2022, the Data Liberation Project [filed a FOIA request](../requests/eeoc-ims-documentation/) to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, seeking documentation of its Integrated Mission System. + +On February 23, 2023, the EEOC provided the "[first interim production](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23689387-2023-02-23-20230223_firstinterimlod-820-2023-002324)" of records responsive to this request. It consists of [one PDF](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23689388-2023-02-23-820-2023-002324-interim-1-responsive-documents), which appears to be an entity relationship diagram listing database tables, column names, and the relationships between them. + +On October 31, 2023, the EEOC provided a "[second interim production](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24116559-2023-10-31-20231030_interim2lod-820-2023-002324)" of records responsive to this request. It consists of [one 650-page PDF](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24116560-2023-10-31-820-2023-002324-interim-2-responsive-documents) that appears be an Oracle database schema for EEOC's IMS database; it lists the names, columns, and column constraints of 600+ tables. Based on the table names referenced, it seems to describe a different database system than the records provided in the first interim production. + +As the EEOC provides additional records, the Data Liberation Project will share them here. diff --git a/content/documents/fema-disaster-housing.md b/content/documents/fema-disaster-housing.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..861e683 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/documents/fema-disaster-housing.md @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +--- +title: FEMA Disaster Housing Database Documentation +date: 2024-04-23T00:01:00-04:00 +last_updated: 2024-04-23T00:01:00-04:00 +data_through: March 2018 +update_freq: FOIA-dependent +related_request: fema-disaster-housing +summary: Documentation of database systems FEMA uses to track the “direct housing” assistance the agency provides people affected by major disasters. + +--- + +In September 2022, the [Data Liberation Project](https://www.data-liberation-project.org/) sent the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) [a request](/requests/fema-disaster-housing/) for data from — and documentation of — the systems used to track the “direct housing” assistance the agency provides people affected by major disasters. + +On April 3, 2024, FEMA provided an “interim response” containing seven documents. Five of the documents, spanning 139 pages, were not redacted: + +- [Date Validation Quick Reference Guide 1..pdf](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24601746-date-validation-quick-reference-guide-1pdf) (14 pages): "The purpose of this document is to provide HOMES users With the ability to identify each date validation delivered With HOMES Release 2.07. The document is organized by process. Within each process section, the user will see a list of each date in that process and the date it validates against." +- [Site Map-Inspection 1.93.pdf](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24601749-site-map-inspection-193pdf) (29 pages): From a user guide titled *Using DARAC (Direct Assistance, Replacement Assistance Consideration)*, a chapter on the "Site Map/Inspection" process. +- [Site_Admin 1.93.pdf](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24601750-site_admin-193pdf) (33 pages): From a user guide titled *Using DARAC (Direct Assistance, Replacement Assistance Consideration)*, a chapter on the "Site Admin" process, which "is used to create, monitor, and update all non—private site types and individual pad/ lots Within a given site." +- [Staging 1.93.pdf](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24601751-staging-193pdf) (14 pages): From a user guide titled *Using DARAC (Direct Assistance, Replacement Assistance Consideration)*, a chapter on the "Staging" process, which "is used primarily by FEMA Staff assigned to monitor and distribute units from staging areas and other points of distribution. It’s primary function is to facilitate the dispatch of specific units to specific locations." +- [Work Order 2.0.pdf](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24601752-work-order-20pdf) (49 pages): From a user guide titled *Using HOMES (Housing Operations Management Enterprise System)*, a chapter on the "Work Orders" process. + +The remaining two documents, spanning 100 pages, were entirely redacted: + +- [PPI Admin 1.93 .pdf](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24601747-ppi-admin-193-pdf) (42 pages) +- [Pre-Placement Interview Reference 2..pdf](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24601748-pre-placement-interview-reference-2pdf) (58 pages) + +The Data Liberation Project expects that FEMA will continue to provide additional responsive documents. diff --git a/content/documents/fmcs-case-management-system-schema.md b/content/documents/fmcs-case-management-system-schema.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1bfb179 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/documents/fmcs-case-management-system-schema.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +--- +title: FMCS Case Management System Schema +date: 2023-02-14T00:00:00-05:00 +last_updated: 2023-02-14T00:00:00-05:00 +data_through: Undated +update_freq: Not planned +related_request: fmcs-work-stoppages +summary: A database schema provided by the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, appearing to document the agency's case management system. + +--- + +In December 2022, the Data Liberation Project submitted a [FOIA request](../requests/fmcs-work-stoppages/) to the [Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service](https://www.fmcs.gov/) (FMCS) seeking: + +- Database records describing the general characteristics of all FMCS-tracked work stoppages. +- All documentation of [FMCS-0004](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/03/16/2022-05544/privacy-act-of-1974-system-of-records), the “system of records” containing that information. + +In February 2023, the agency’s FOIA office [responded](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23622117-2023-02-09-foia-partial-grant) with a “partial grant,” providing just one documentation file, and withholding all other records. + +The Data Liberation Project has [uploaded that file](https://github.com/data-liberation-project/fmcs-work-stoppage-records), which is an Excel spreadsheet named “Prod Schema.xlsx”. Although FMCS did not provide any context for the file, it appears to be the database schema for the agency’s case management system, or at least a portion of it. It’s fairly detailed, with 5,900+ columns across 100+ tables. diff --git a/content/documents/uscg-oil-spill-response-costs.md b/content/documents/uscg-oil-spill-response-costs.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..68dc37a --- /dev/null +++ b/content/documents/uscg-oil-spill-response-costs.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +--- +title: Oil Spill Response Costs +date: 2024-08-12T00:16:00-04:00 +last_updated: 2024-08-12T00:16:00-04:00 +data_through: Early 2023 +update_freq: FOIA-dependent +related_request: oil-spill-response-costs +summary: Incident reports, contractor authorizations, invoices, and other documents related to Coast Guard–administered oil spill responses. +entrypoint: + title: Documents and descriptions + href: https://github.com/data-liberation-project/uscg-oil-spill-response-costs + +--- + +When oil spills occur in the US and its waters, he US Coast Guard’s [National Pollution Funds Center](https://www.uscg.mil/Mariners/National-Pollution-Funds-Center/About-NPFC/) (NPFC) "provides funding for quick response, compensates claimants for cleanup costs and damages, and takes action to recover costs from responsible parties." + +In November 2022, the Data Liberation Project [filed](/requests/oil-spill-response-costs/) a [FOIA request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23329271-2022-11-30-dhsuscgnpfc-spill-response-form-submissions-foia-request-singer-vine) to the Coast Guard sought all records collected through several types of NPFC forms and workbooks since January 2000. Through conversations with the Coast Guard, the Data Liberation Project agreed to narrow the request to more recent years — those for which the records are primarily digital. + +The Coast Guard has begun providing the responsive records in 150-page increments. The first tranche of records was provided on July 30, 2024. To access the documents and the Data Liberation Project's descriptions of them, [click here](https://github.com/data-liberation-project/uscg-oil-spill-response-costs). diff --git a/content/documents/usda-data-inventories.md b/content/documents/usda-data-inventories.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7f2737b --- /dev/null +++ b/content/documents/usda-data-inventories.md @@ -0,0 +1,58 @@ +--- +title: USDA Data Inventories +date: 2023-08-04T00:00:00-04:00 +last_updated: 2023-08-04T00:00:00-04:00 +data_through: July 2023 +update_freq: FOIA-dependent +related_request: usda-data-inventories +summary: A spreadsheet listing nearly 3,000 active, retired, and proposed Department of Agriculture databases and information systems. + +--- + +On January 30, 2023, the [Data Liberation Project](https://www.data-liberation-project.org/) sent the Department of Agriculture [a request](https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/usda-data-inventories/) for two categories of records: + +- Records fulfilling [44 U.S. Code § 3511(a)](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/44/3511)’s requirement to “develop and maintain a comprehensive data inventory” +- Records fulfilling [44 U.S. Code § 3505(c)](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/44/3505)’s requirement to “develop and maintain an inventory of major information systems” + +On July 26, 2023, the USDA emailed [its response 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23894814-2023-07-26-2023-da-01942-f-final-response_x): "The [Office of the Chief Information Officer] searched for records responsive to your request between January 1, 2013 and the present. The search identified one excel spreadsheet responsive to your request. The spreadsheet is being released to you in full, with no exemptions applied." + +[The spreadsheet](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Gw9AMAABZhHhwTjUI1VoA-ned4LMTfA4/edit) lists 2,985 active, proposed, in-development, phasing-out, and retired databases and information systems. Its 23 columns provide a range of attributes about each system, including: + +- `Name` +- `Aliases` +- `Lifecycle status` +- `Owning Agency` +- `Description` +- `Application Type` +- `Live date` +- `Expected decommission date` + +(Not all systems have all attributes listed.) + +Here is an example entry from the spreadsheet: + +| Column | Value | +|:-------|:------| +| `Name` | Electronic Disqualified Recipient System Application (EDRS) | +| `Aliases` | E-DRS | +| `Lifecycle status` | Active | +| `Owning Agency` | FNS | +| `Sub-Agency` | (None) | +| `Workflow Contact` | *[email address]* | +| `Description` | The eDRS application provides authorized users with a single, user friendly and web based interface for accessing the most up to date and comprehensive data on disqualified Food Stamp recipients. This system centralizes and improves upon the earlier DRS | +| `Application Type` | Server-based Application | +| `Component Type` | Application | +| `Acronym` | E-DRS | +| `Business Point of Contact Name` | *[name]* | +| `Business POC Email Address` | *[email address]* | +| `Internal: Actual decommission date` | (None) | +| `Internal: Expected decommission date` | 2030-10-09 00:00:00 | +| `Internal: Live date` | 2018-08-09 00:00:00 | +| `Internal: Expected decommission reason` | Expected replacement/obsolescence | +| `Internal: In Development From` | (None) | +| `Internal: Phase Out From` | 2030-09-11 00:00:00 | +| `AgMax Migration` | Yes | +| `Authority to Operate (ATO) effective date` | 2020-08-11 00:00:00 | +| `Authority to Operate (ATO) expiration date` | 2023-08-11 00:00:00 | +| `Authority to Operate (ATO) status` | Approved | +| `Build` | Custom-built | diff --git a/content/documents/usda-food-purchases.md b/content/documents/usda-food-purchases.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7565b95 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/documents/usda-food-purchases.md @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +--- +title: USDA Food Purchase Database Documentation +date: 2024-04-23T00:00:00-04:00 +last_updated: 2024-07-08T00:00:00-04:00 +data_through: Early 2024 +update_freq: FOIA-dependent +related_request: usda-food-purchases +summary: Records documenting the USDA's Web Based Supply Chain Management System, used for coordinating the purchase and distribution of federal food and commodity orders. + +--- + +In November 2022, the [Data Liberation Project](https://www.data-liberation-project.org/) sent the Department of Agriculture [a request](/requests/usda-food-purchases/) for data from — and documentation of — the agency's Web Based Supply Chain Management System (`WBSCM`), which it uses for coordinating the purchase and distribution of federal food and commodity orders. + +In conversations with the Data Liberation Project, the agency said it was unable to export the data records requested; the Data Liberation Project agreed to re-focus the request on the documentation records. The agency [initially refused to provide those records](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23941261-2023-09-01-2023-ams-00030-f-final-response-letter), citing FOIA exemptions 3 and 7(E). After the Data Liberation Project [appealed this decision](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24178295-2023-11-28-appeal-re-ams-foia-request-2023-ams-00030-f) (with the assistance of the Cornell Law School First Amendment Clinic), the USDA has begun to provide the records. + +On April 19, 2024, the USDA [provided](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24563484-2023-ams-00030-f-first-supplemental-response-letter) a "first supplemental response" of 356 pages of records: + +- [Part 1A_Redacted.pdf](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24563483-2023-ams-00030-f-first-supplemental-part-1a_redacted) (59 pages): Materials from various WBSCM user trainings dated August 2018, March 2022, July 2022, March 2023, April 2023, September 2023, and October 2023. Topics include WBSCM support requests, account management, and WBSCM help resources. +- [Part 1B_Redacted.pdf](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24563482-2023-ams-00030-f-first-supplemental-part-1b_redacted) (70 pages): Materials from various WBSCM user trainings dated October 2017, March 2022, September 2023, and January 2024. Topics include user registration, WBSCM portal navigation, user role assignment, and recent upgrades. Includes a list of WBSCM document types (pp. 2–4), list of user roles (pp. 36–40), and glossary (pp. 41–49). +- [Part 2_Redacted.pdf](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24563481-2023-ams-00030-f-first-supplemental-part-2_redacted) (110 pages): Materials from various WBSCM user trainings dated November 2019, October 2020, November 2021, July 2022, March 2023, June 2023, September 2023, and February 2024. Topics include recent upgrades, user accessibility, user management, e-invoices, and claim letters. Includes a glossary (pp. 30–34) and definitions of various status codes (pp. 82–88). +- [Part 3A_Redacted.pdf](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24563480-2023-ams-00030-f-first-supplemental-part-3a_redacted) (57 pages): Materials from various WBSCM user trainings dated December 2016, June 2017, August 2017, June 2019, October 2019, September 2020, May 2021, September 2021, September 2021, October 2022, December 2023, and March 2024. Topics include requisition approvals, national warehouse complaint management, and notification management. Includes definitions of complaint statuses and resolutions (pp. 3-5), purchase requisition statuses (p. 25), domestic fulfillment processes and terms (pp. 26–39), and national warehouse movement types (pp. 40–42). +- [Part 3B_Redacted.pdf](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24563485-2023-ams-00030-f-first-supplemental-part-3b_redacted) (60 pages). Materials from various WBSCM user trainings dated July 2014, December 2016, and December 2021. Topics include international complaint management, requisition approvals, entitlement budgeting, and third-party barter orders. Also includes an short XML file definition of unknown provenance (p. 56). + +On June 28, 2024, the USDA [provided 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24795028-2023-ams-00030-f-second-supplemental-response) a "second supplemental response" of [757 pages of records](/datasets/usda-food-purchases/): + +- [Part 1_Redacted.pdf](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24795029-2023-ams-00030-f-second-supplemental-records-part-1_redacted) (66 pages): Materials from various WBSCM user trainings dated November 2023, December 2023, and February 2024. Topics include shipment cancellations, order consolidations, and co-op organizations. +- [Part 2_Redacted.pdf](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24795030-2023-ams-00030-f-second-supplemental-records-part-2_redacted) (85 pages): Materials from various WBSCM user trainings dated April 2019, December 2022, January 2024. Topics include domestic requisitions, complaint procedures, and multi-food orders. +- [Part 3_Redacted.pdf](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24795031-2023-ams-00030-f-second-supplemental-records-part-3_redacted) (52 pages): Materials from various WBSCM user trainings dated May 2019, September 2023, and February 2024. Topics include user management, agency management, and multi-food orders. +- [Part 4_Redacted.pdf](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24795032-2023-ams-00030-f-second-supplemental-records-part-4_redacted) (59 pages): Materials from various WBSCM user trainings dated March 2021, December 2022, July 2023, and September 2023. Topics include user management, delivery documents, requisition display, entitlement balances, and complaint display. +- [Part 5_Redacted.pdf](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24795033-2023-ams-00030-f-second-supplemental-records-part-5_redacted) (80 pages): Materials from various WBSCM user trainings dated September 2020, March 2021, March 2022, November 2023, and December 2023. Topics include catalog maintenance, catalog downloads, purchase order data downloads, sales order data downloads, recalls, and shipment receipts. +- [Part 6_Redacted.pdf](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24795034-2023-ams-00030-f-second-supplemental-records-part-6_redacted) (60 pages): Materials from various WBSCM user trainings dated June 2020, March 2021, June 2023, December 2023, and February 2024. Topics include transaction reports, multi-food order data exports, organization management, multi-destination deliveries, and national warehouse delivery calendars. +- [Part 7_Redacted.pdf](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24795035-2023-ams-00030-f-second-supplemental-records-part-7_redacted) (52 pages): Materials from various WBSCM user trainings dated March 2021, April 2021, March 2023, and February 2024. Topics include delivery scheduling, entitlement maintenance, recall notification management, and organization management. +- [Part 8_Redacted.pdf](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24795036-2023-ams-00030-f-second-supplemental-records-part-8_redacted) (61 pages): Materials from various WBSCM user trainings dated April 2021, July 2022, January 2023, and February 2024. Topics include delivery scheduling, user profiles, catalog management, discussion forums, and address management. +- [Part 9_Redacted.pdf](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24795037-2023-ams-00030-f-second-supplemental-records-part-9_redacted) (80 pages): Materials from various WBSCM user trainings dated March 2021, December 2023, January 2024, February 2024, and March 2024. Topics include requisition modification, returned orders, organization management, and shipment receipt management. +- [Part 10_Redacted.pdf](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24795038-2023-ams-00030-f-second-supplemental-records-part-10_redacted) (87 pages): Materials from various WBSCM user trainings dated March 2021, March 2022, December 2023, and February 2024. Topics include inventory reconciliation, order quantity redistribution, price support orders, requisition declinations, order status reports, processing status reports, requisition status reports, and entitlement management. +- [Part 11_Redacted.pdf](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24795039-2023-ams-00030-f-second-supplemental-records-part-11_redacted) (75 pages): Materials from various WBSCM user trainings dated March 2021, March 2022, May 2022, and February 2024. Topics include delivery scheduling, recall surveys, bills of lading, shipment receipts, national warehouse batches, organization management, and sales order uploading. + +The agency says it is reviewing additional records for disclosure. diff --git a/content/requests/_index.md b/content/requests/_index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..715a486 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/requests/_index.md @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +--- +title: Records Requests +cascade: + outputs: + - html + - rss +--- + +Below you can find the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests the Data Liberation Project has filed. diff --git a/content/requests/acl-adult-maltreatment-reporting-system.md b/content/requests/acl-adult-maltreatment-reporting-system.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..70a5293 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/requests/acl-adult-maltreatment-reporting-system.md @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +--- +title: National Adult Maltreatment Reporting System +agency: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ▹ Administration for Community Living (ACL) +date: 2023-02-17T00:00:00-05:00 +status: Liberated +status_link: "/datasets/national-adult-maltreatment-reporting-system" +request_id: 00017473-FOIA-ACL +last_updated: 2024-05-14 +summary: We’re requesting data from “the first comprehensive, national reporting system for adult protective services programs.” +request_letter: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23685196-2023-02-17-hhsacl-narms-database-foia-request-singer-vine +updates: +- date: 2024-05-14T10:30:00-04:00 + title: Records Published + body: >- + On May 14, 2024, the Data Liberation Project [published the responsive records](/datasets/national-adult-maltreatment-reporting-system), along with [documentation](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gQVAWoC-vg__aN7YnZ_thkiCh2WbdCX9U0jIvrMiL5g/edit) describing what it has learned about them. +- date: 2024-04-10T11:25:00-04:00 + title: Records Received, DLP Processing + body: >- + On April 10, 2024, Administration for Community Living provided a data transfer completing its provision of records in response to this request. The Data Liberation Project is reviewing the records and preparing them for publication. +- date: 2023-02-23T09:14:00-05:00 + title: Request Acknowledged + body: >- + On February 23, 2023, ACL sent an [email acknowledging our request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23689371-2023-02-23-00017473-foia-acl-acknowledgement-email). + +--- + +The Administration for Community Living (ACL) maintains the [National Adult Maltreatment Reporting System](https://acl.gov/programs/elder-justice/national-adult-maltreatment-reporting-system-namrs) (`NAMRS`), “the first comprehensive, national reporting system for adult protective services (APS) programs.” It “collects quantitative and qualitative data on APS practices and policies, and the outcomes of investigations into the maltreatment of older adults and adults with disabilities." + +The system "[consist[s] of three components](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/02/16/2023-03266/agency-information-collection-activities-proposed-collection-comment-request-national-adult)": + +> (1) Descriptive data on state agency and practices from all states through the “Agency Component,” and +> +> (2) Case-level, non-identifiable data on persons who receive an investigation by APS in response to an allegation of abuse, neglect, or exploitation through “Case Component”, or +> +> (3) For states that are unable to submit a case-level file through the “Case Component,” a “Key Indicators Component” will be available for them to submit data on a smaller set of core items. + +Per ACL, the system collects "no personally identifiable information". States submit their data to `NAMRS` annually, and on a voluntary basis. According to ACL's [most recent Adult Maltreatment Report](https://namrs.acl.gov/Learning-Resources/Adult-Maltreatment-Reports/2020-Adult-Maltreatment-Report.aspx), all states and territories submit at least *some* data to `NAMRS`: 62% submit the case and agency components, 29% submit the key indicator and agency components, and 9% submit only the agency component. + +[Our FOIA request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23685196-2023-02-17-hhsacl-narms-database-foia-request-singer-vine) seeks all database records in `NAMRS`, excluding fields containing sensitive user information. It also seeks all relevant database documentation. + +Note: Some database documentation can already be found in ACL's [information collection review package](https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAViewICR) for `NAMRS`, as well as in a [report by the contractor that built the system](https://aspe.hhs.gov/reports/development-national-adult-protective-services-data-system-namrs-pilot-final-report-volume-2-0). diff --git a/content/requests/automated-targeting-system-documentation.md b/content/requests/automated-targeting-system-documentation.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8ff7171 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/requests/automated-targeting-system-documentation.md @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +--- +title: Automated Targeting System Documentation +agency: Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ▹ Customs and Border Protection (CBP) +date: 2022-10-31T00:00:00-04:00 +request_id: CBP-FO-2023-006535 +status: Denied, Appealed +last_updated: 2024-05-16 +summary: We're requesting documentation of a major Customs and Border Protection database. +request_letter: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23258078-2022-10-31-dhscbp-ats-documentation-foia-request +updates: +- date: 2024-05-16T17:25:00-04:00 + title: Denial Appealed + body: >- + On May 16, 2024, the Data Liberation Project submitted an [appeal of CBP's denial 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24664484-2024-05-16-appeal-of-cbp-fo-2023-006535), arguing that CBP misinterpreted the scope of the request and did not give the DLP an opportunity to discuss and/or narrow it. +- date: 2024-02-20T11:20:00-05:00 + title: Request Denied + body: >- + On February 20, 2024, CBP sent an [email denying our request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24537879-2024-02-20-cbp-foia-cbp-fo-2023-006535), arguing that "we have determined that your request is too broad in scope and it is being closed as overburdensome on the agency as it is estimated that pulling the data will take one full-time person over four years and will cause interruptions to normal operations." +- date: 2022-12-20T07:48:00-05:00 + title: Request Acknowledged + body: >- + On December 20, 2022, CBP sent an [email acknowledging our request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23487660-2022-12-20-cbp-fo-2023-006535-acknowledment). + +--- + +The [Automated Targeting System](https://www.dhs.gov/publication/automated-targeting-system-ats-update) is a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) "decision support tool that compares traveler, cargo, and conveyance information against law enforcement, intelligence, and other enforcement data using risk-based scenarios and assessments." It stores a wide range of records on people and cargo, collected directly as well as copied from other government data systems. (For more details, see CBP's 2017 [Privacy Impact Assessment update](https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2022-07/privacy-pia-cbp006-ats-july2022_0.pdf).) + +Among those records are data that CBP extracts from individuals' electronic devices — the subject of a [recent letter from Sen. Ron Wyden to the agency](https://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/wyden-reveals-new-details-about-us-customs-and-border-protections-egregious-violations-of-americans-rights-during-warrantless-electronic-device-searches), as well as [coverage in the Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/09/15/government-surveillance-database-dhs/). + +[Our FOIA request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23258078-2022-10-31-dhscbp-ats-documentation-foia-request) seeks all records that *document* the ATS, such as database diagrams and user guides. Such records are essential to (a) providing the public with a clearer and more specific understanding of the types of information DHS/CBP may hold about them, and (b) enabling the public to construct productive, efficient FOIA requests for particular slices of non-exempt database material in the future. diff --git a/content/requests/bop-federal-inmate-deaths.md b/content/requests/bop-federal-inmate-deaths.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0cb9658 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/requests/bop-federal-inmate-deaths.md @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +--- +title: Federal Inmate Deaths +agency: Department of Justice (DOJ) ▹ Bureau of Prisons (BOP) +date: 2024-08-09T00:00:00-04:00 +status: Records Received +request_id: 2024-05021 +last_updated: 2024-09-04 +summary: We’re data records representing each federal inmate death from 2005 to the present. +request_letter: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25038113-2024-08-09-dojbop-inmate-deaths-foia-request-data-liberation-project +updates: +- date: 2024-09-04T18:06:00-04:00 + title: Records Received + body: >- + On September 4, 2024, BOP [sent a determination letter 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25141895-2024-09-04-determination-letter) along with a spreadsheet containing responsive records, which the Data Liberation Project has begun reviewing for publication. +- date: 2024-08-16T13:46:00-04:00 + title: Request Acknowledged + body: >- + On August 16, 2024, BOP [acknowledged 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25050934-2024-08-16-foia-request-2024-05021) this request, placed it on its "complex" processing track, and assigned it case number `2024-05021`. + +--- + +*This request is a collaboration with Data Liberation Project volunteer [Jake J. Smith](http://jakejsmith.com).* + +[This FOIA request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25038113-2024-08-09-dojbop-inmate-deaths-foia-request-data-liberation-project) to the Bureau of Prisons seeks data records representing each federal inmate death from 2005 to the present. The request asks that the records include, for each death, the inmate’s: + +- Registration number +- Name +- Sex/gender +- Race +- Ethnicity +- Date of death +- Manner of death +- Specific cause of death +- Categorization of death  (e.g., “Cancer”, “Cardiac”, “Drug Overdose”) +- ICD-10 code for primary diagnosis +- Assigned institution +- Assigned housing location with that institution +- Security level designation +- Institution entry date + +We believe that such records are available and can be produced in a structured, machine-readable format for the following reasons: + +- In 2024, the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General released a report, “[Evaluation of Issues Surrounding Inmate Deaths in Federal Bureau of Prisons Institutions](https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/reports/24-041.pdf ),” which states: “We analyzed BOP-provided data as of October 27, 2023, on inmate deaths by suicide, homicide, accident, and unknown manner from FY 2014 through FY 2021. Specific data points included a deceased inmate’s registration number, name, sex, race, manner of death, specific cause of death, date of death, assigned institution, assigned housing location within the institution, security level designation, and Mental Health Care Level (MHCL) designation at the time of death.”  + +- In [response](https://www.bop.gov/foia/foia_available_records.jsp?advancedSearch=true&cat=14) to a previous FOIA request, BOP [provided a subset of prisoner death data](https://www.bop.gov/foia/docs/Inmate_Deaths_2019_to_2022.pdf) that included inmate name, registration number, date of death, institution ID, death category, and ICD-10 primary cause of death code and description.  + +- Although the records in that PDF provided via FOIA go back only to 2019, we believe that BOP possesses earlier records, as evidenced by a [2023 article published by National Public Radio](https://www.npr.org/2023/09/23/1200626103/federal-prison-deaths-butner-medical-center-sick-inmates) describing “\[r]ecords obtained from the Bureau of Prisons (BOP)” that date back to at least 2009.  diff --git a/content/requests/cbp-bills-of-lading.md b/content/requests/cbp-bills-of-lading.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7c8186e --- /dev/null +++ b/content/requests/cbp-bills-of-lading.md @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +--- +title: Bills of Lading (Cargo Manifests) +agency: Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ▹ Customs and Border Protection (CBP) +date: 2023-04-27T00:00:00-04:00 +status: Rejected +request_id: CBP-FO-2023-075587 +last_updated: 2023-04-28 +summary: We're requesting comprehensive records on the cargo shipped into and out of the United States. +request_letter: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23790364-2023-04-27-dhscbp-ace-manifest-data-foia-request-singer-vine +updates: +- date: 2023-04-28T10:31:00-04:00 + title: Request Rejected + body: >- + On April 28, 2023, CBP [emailed a rejection letter 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23808142-2023-04-28-cbp-foia-cbp-fo-2023-075587), saying that the records are unavailable via FOIA. This statement seems to contradict the evidence, [presented in the request letter](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23790364-2023-04-27-dhscbp-ace-manifest-data-foia-request-singer-vine), that such records have been obtained via FOIA before. The Data Liberation Project is seeking clarity on this matter. + +--- + +*This request was inspired by conversations with [Mike Schlauch](https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-schlauch-94a0061a), a data scientist at [DrivenData](https://drivendata.co/).* + + +Customs and Border Protection's [Automated Commercial Environment](https://www.cbp.gov/trade/automated) (`ACE`) "is the system through which the trade community reports imports and exports and the government determines admissibility.” + +Of particular interest, `ACE` contains the "bills of lading" (also know as cargo manifests) describing each shipment into and out of the United States. + +Per CBP's [privacy impact assessment for ACE](https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/privacy-piaupdate-cbp-ace-july2015.pdf), “as required by 19 U.S.C. § 1431, 46 U.S.C. § 60105, and 19 CFR § 103.31, certain inbound and outbound manifest data in ACE may be made available for publication.” The [first](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2011-title19/html/USCODE-2011-title19-chap4-subtitleIII-partII-sec1431.htm) and [third](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2009-title19-vol1/pdf/CFR-2009-title19-vol1-sec103-31.pdf) of those cited statutes provide more detail about what aspects of those bills of lading are disclosable to the public. + +Such import/export manifest data has a broad range of socially beneficial uses, including investigative journalism, supply chain monitoring, and economic research. + +[Our FOIA request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23790364-2023-04-27-dhscbp-ace-manifest-data-foia-request-singer-vine) to CBP seeks all disclosable data records, from all database tables in `ACE`, documenting inward and outward manifests received by CBP since January 1, 2013. diff --git a/content/requests/cfpb-enforcement-database-documentation.md b/content/requests/cfpb-enforcement-database-documentation.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f6be61c --- /dev/null +++ b/content/requests/cfpb-enforcement-database-documentation.md @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +--- +title: CFPB Enforcement Database Documentation +agency: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) +date: 2023-02-16T00:00:00-05:00 +status: Partially Fulfilled +request_id: CFPB-2023-0206-F +last_updated: 2023-04-14 +summary: We're requesting documentation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's database tracking its enforcement efforts. +request_letter: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23684835-2023-02-16-cfpb-enforcement-database-documentation-foia-request-singer-vine +updates: +- date: 2023-04-14T09:03:00-04:00 + title: Request Partially Fulfilled + body: >- + On April 14, 2023, CFPB emailed a [determination letter 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23777877-2023-04-14-cfpb-2023-0206-f-determination-letter) and [six pages of responsive records 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23777876-2023-04-14-cfpb-2023-0206-f-binder), saying that this was all that their search turned up. The Data Liberation Project believes more records are likely responsive, and is inquiring with the CFPB about this. +- date: 2023-02-17T09:00:00-05:00 + title: Request Acknowledged + body: >- + On February 17, 2023, CFPB emailed a [letter acknowledging our request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23685225-2023-02-17-cfpb-2023-0206-f-ack-letter). In a separate email, agency also noted that it changed the request tracking number from CFPB-2023-0005-F-P to CFPB-2023-0206-F. + +--- + +The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau maintains a "system of records" titled "[CFPB.004—Enforcement Database](https://www.consumerfinance.gov/privacy/system-records-notices/enforcement-database/)," which enables the agency: + +> to carry out its responsibilities with respect to enforcement of Title X of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and other Federal consumer financial laws. This includes investigating potential violations of federal consumer financial laws, pursuing administrative or civil enforcement actions, and making appropriate referrals to other federal or state agencies. + + +[Our FOIA request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23684835-2023-02-16-cfpb-enforcement-database-documentation-foia-request-singer-vine) seeks all records that *document* the Enforcement Database, such as database diagrams and user guides, for the purpose of better understanding the system and also to aid in the construction of efficient FOIA requests for particular slices of non-exempt database material in the future. diff --git a/content/requests/cfpb-enforcement-matters.md b/content/requests/cfpb-enforcement-matters.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6b284cb --- /dev/null +++ b/content/requests/cfpb-enforcement-matters.md @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@ +--- +title: CFPB Enforcement Matters +agency: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) +date: 2023-05-30T00:00:00-04:00 +status: Partially Liberated +status_link: "/datasets/cfpb-enforcement-matters/" +request_id: CFPB-2023-0365-F +last_updated: 2024-06-26 +summary: We're requesting database records representing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's enforcement efforts. +request_letter: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23831884-2023-05-30-cfpb-enforce-database-records-foia-request-singer-vine +updates: +- date: 2024-06-26T17:39:00-04:00 + title: Additional Records Discovered And Withheld + body: >- + On June 26, 2024, CFPB emailed a [letter 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25038495-2024-06-26-cfpb-2023-0365-rem-determination-letter) denying access to additional records uncovered via the appeal-remanded search. It reads, in part: "A search of our Office of Enforcement identified records responsive to your May 30, 2023 request that were omitted from our September 18, 2023 response. However, these omitted records are withheld in full pursuant to 5 U.S.C. § 552(b)(7)(E). Additionally, due to the way the requested information is stored, it would create an undue burden on the CFPB to determine the amount of reasonably segregable data beyond what was previously released." +- date: 2023-12-18T12:54:00-05:00 + title: Appeal Partly Granted + body: >- + On December 18, 2023, CFPB's legal department [provided a determination letter 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24229211-2023-12-18-final-appellate-determination-letter_2023-0365-a) in response to the Data Liberation Project's November 16 appeal. The determination grants the appeal of CFPB's handling of the data portion of the request: "Here, the FOIA Office appears to have determined it was releasing segregable portions of the requested records in response to the Request. Nonetheless, the FOIA Office did not indicate the amount of information deleted or explain the exemption under which the deletion was made. I therefore grant your appeal with respect to Part 1 of the Request and remand the Request to the FOIA Office to determine whether any additional reasonably segregable non-exempt records can be produced without the agency expending an unreasonable amount of time and resources, and to release any reasonably segregable non-exempt records that are not subject to any exemption." The letter, however, denied the appeal for the second portion of the request, which sought training materials related to the database. +- date: 2023-11-16T16:10:00-05:00 + title: Appeal Filed + body: >- + On November 16, 2023, the Data Liberation Project [submitted an appeal 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24169701-2023-11-16-appeal-re-foia-request-cfpb-2023-0365-f-singer-vine) to CFPB regarding this case, requesting that a more complete set of records be provided. +- date: 2023-09-18T13:30:00-05:00 + title: Initial Response Received + body: >- + On September 18, 2023, CFPB emailed its [response to our request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24026548-2023-09-18-cfpb-2023-0365-f-determination-letter); the agency [provided one spreadsheet](https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/cfpb-enforcement-matters/) in response to the first part of the request, and fully withheld all 530 pages of documentation potentially responsive to the second part of the request. +- date: 2023-05-31T13:24:00-04:00 + title: Request Acknowledged + body: >- + On May 31, 2023, CFPB emailed a [letter acknowledging our request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23831885-2023-05-31-cfpb-2023-0365-f-ack-letter). + +--- + +One of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s key roles is to [investigate and enforce](https://www.consumerfinance.gov/enforcement/life-cycle-of-enforcement-action/) potential violations of federal consumer finance laws. To track and organize those efforts, the CFPB uses an “enforcement matter management system” called `ENForce`. + +In response to a [prior FOIA request](../cfpb-enforcement-database-documentation/), the Data Liberation Project received [documentation describing some of the structure of the `ENForce` database](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23777876-2023-04-14-cfpb-2023-0206-f-binder). + +Based on that documentation, [*this* FOIA request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23831884-2023-05-30-cfpb-enforce-database-records-foia-request-singer-vine) seeks all records in the following database tables *for matters that have either reached a final disposition or public action* (i.e., excluding ongoing, nonpublic matters): + +- Matter +- Case +- Associated Entities +- Entity +- Matter IPL Link +- Institutional Product Line, IPL +- Financial Product +- Statutes +- Claims +- Public Action +- Final Disposition +- Monetary Relief & Penalties +- Final Order +- Order Provision +- Defendant Compliance +- Defendant +- PEA Named Parties +- Named Parties + +... excluding columns containing records of a personally sensitive nature or that would have to be individually inspected for redaction. diff --git a/content/requests/cms-acute-hospital-care-at-home.md b/content/requests/cms-acute-hospital-care-at-home.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6b78954 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/requests/cms-acute-hospital-care-at-home.md @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +--- +title: “Acute Hospital Care at Home” Data +agency: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ▹ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) +date: 2023-01-27T00:00:00-05:00 +status: Liberated +status_link: "/datasets/cms-acute-hospital-care-at-home" +request_id: "012720237023" +last_updated: 2023-07-25 +summary: We're requesting data from a recent CMS program "providing eligible hospitals with unprecedented regulatory flexibilities to treat eligible patients in their homes.” +request_letter: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23588872-2023-01-27-hhscms-acute-hospital-care-at-home-foia-request-singer-vinevarner +updates: +- date: 2023-01-30T15:01:00-05:00 + title: Request Acknowledged + body: >- + On January 30, 2023, CMS emailed a [letter acknowledging our request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23590434-2023-01-30-foia-acknowledgement-letter-fig-02720237023-singer-vine). +- date: 2023-06-26T15:08:00-04:00 + title: Records Provided + body: >- + On June 26, 2023, CMS [provided records to the Data Liberation Project 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23886069-2023-06-26-partial-release-letter_012720237023), consisting of four spreadsheets corresponding to the requested data, but no records corresponding to the requested documentation. The Data Liberation Project began preparing the records for release. +- date: 2023-07-25T09:00:00-04:00 + title: Records Made Publicly Available + body: >- + On July 25, 2023, the DLP made the records obtained through this FOIA request [available to the public](/datasets/cms-acute-hospital-care-at-home), along with DLP-written [documentation](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QThzzfaGWwq-RDd7fvQpTuUKJozBuQZJiFhcKt1ONX4/edit). + +--- + +*This request is a collaboration with [Maddy Varner](https://maddy.zone/) of [The Markup](https://themarkup.org/).* + +In November 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) [announced](https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/press-releases/cms-announces-comprehensive-strategy-enhance-hospital-capacity-amid-covid-19-surge) a new waiver program, called Acute Hospital Care At Home (AHCaH), aimed at “providing eligible hospitals with unprecedented regulatory flexibilities to treat eligible patients in their homes.” + +The [waiver](https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAViewDocument?ref_nbr=202209-0938-005), “which is granted at the individual hospital/CMS Certification Number (CCN) level, waives §482.23(b) and (b)(1) of the Hospital Conditions of Participation (CoPs) which require nursing services to be provided on premises 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and the immediate availability of a registered nurse for care of any patient.” + +Hospitals approved for an AHCaH waiver must submit weekly or monthly “[reporting measures](https://web.archive.org/web/20230124174838/https://qualitynet.cms.gov/acute-hospital-care-at-home/measures),” monitoring information crucial to assessing the hospital’s performance with regards to the waiver — including patient volume, "unanticipated mortality" counts, "escalation" rates, a question relating the hospital's safety committee, and a patient list. + +[Our FOIA request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23588872-2023-01-27-hhscms-acute-hospital-care-at-home-foia-request-singer-vinevarner) seeks all database records pertaining to AHCaH waiver requests, their processing by CMS, and the reporting measures submitted by participating hospitals, with the exception of personally-identifiable information. It also seeks all relevant database documentation. diff --git a/content/requests/cms-medicare-appeals-level-2.md b/content/requests/cms-medicare-appeals-level-2.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ee66b60 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/requests/cms-medicare-appeals-level-2.md @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +--- +title: Medicare "Level 2" Appeals +agency: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ▹ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) +date: 2024-03-28T00:00:00-04:00 +status: Acknowledged +request_id: "032920247030" +last_updated: 2024-03-28 +summary: We’re requesting database records tracking the circumstances and outcomes of patients' appeals of Medicare insurance decisions. +request_letter: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24522698-2024-03-28-cms-medicare-level-2-appeals-database-records-foia-request-gartnersinger-vine + +--- + +*This request is a collaboration with Mike Gartner of [Persius](https://github.com/TPAFS), an organization that provides free digital tools and data to help US consumers navigate issues with health insurance.* + +Medicare uses a tiered appeals process by which beneficiaries can contest denials of coverage. The second level (“Level 2”) of the five level process is known as a [Qualified Independent Contractor (QIC) Reconsideration](https://www.medicare.gov/claims-appeals/file-an-appeal/appeals-level-2-qualified-independent-contractor-qic-reconsideration). + +CMS currently maintains a [publicly accessible view](https://www.cms.gov/medicare/appeals-grievances/appeals-decision-search-part-c-d) of a structured dataset containing Level 2 appeal outcomes for Part C and Part D (but neither Part A nor Part B). It contains the following fields: + +- Medicare program part +- Appeal decision +- Decision date +- Appeal type +- Item/service +- Condition +- Case number +- Decision rationale +- Coverage rules + +These fields, however, represent a small fraction of the records CMS collects for each Level 2 appeal through its [Medicare Appeals System](https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/cms-medicare-appeals-system.pdf). Furthermore, the online database contains only appeals decided since 2020. + +For these reasons, [our FOIA request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24522698-2024-03-28-cms-medicare-level-2-appeals-database-records-foia-request-gartnersinger-vine) seeks all database records representing Level 2 appeals for Medicare Parts A, B, C, and D, and their outcomes, minus personally-identifying information. diff --git a/content/requests/cms-medicare-appeals-system-documentation.md b/content/requests/cms-medicare-appeals-system-documentation.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ada4866 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/requests/cms-medicare-appeals-system-documentation.md @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +--- +title: Medicare Appeals System (MAS) Documentation +agency: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ▹ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) +date: 2024-03-28T00:00:00-04:00 +status: Acknowledged +request_id: "032920247028" +last_updated: 2024-04-02 +summary: We’re requesting records that document the functionality of CMS’s Medicare Appeals System. +request_letter: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24522699-2024-03-28-cms-mas-documentation-foia-request-gartnersinger-vine +updates: +- date: 2024-04-02T09:03:00-04:00 + title: Request Acknowledged + body: >- + On April 2, 2024, CMS emailed a [letter acknowledging our request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24528857-2024-04-02-foia-acknowledgement-letter-fig-032920247028-gartner) and assigning it a tracking number. + +--- + +*This request is a collaboration with Mike Gartner of [Persius](https://github.com/TPAFS), an organization that provides free digital tools and data to help US consumers navigate issues with health insurance.* + +In 2005, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented the [Medicare Appeals System](https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/cms-medicare-appeals-system.pdf) (`MAS`) to track and store data on patients’ [appeals of Medicare insurance determinations](https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/omha/files/medicare-appeals-backlog.pdf). + +Despite the central role that `MAS` plays in the oversight and administration of Medicare appeals, little public documentation is available describing how it works or how it is structured. + +[Our FOIA request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24522699-2024-03-28-cms-mas-documentation-foia-request-gartnersinger-vine) seeks all records (such as user guides, data dictionaries, entity relationship diagrams, etc.) that document the functionality of the system. diff --git a/content/requests/controlled-substance-theft-and-loss.md b/content/requests/controlled-substance-theft-and-loss.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6c37c2b --- /dev/null +++ b/content/requests/controlled-substance-theft-and-loss.md @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ +--- +title: Theft and Loss of Controlled Substances +agency: Department of Justice (DOJ) ▹ Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) +date: 2022-09-23T00:00:00-04:00 +status: Some records provided, appeal filed, denied +status_link: "/datasets/dea-theft-and-loss-counts" +request_id: 22-01101-F / A-2023-01489 / A-2024-01699 +last_updated: 2024-05-17 +summary: We're requesting database records from the DEA's Theft Loss Reporting system, which collects information about controlled substances that have gone missing. +request_letter: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22925202-2022-09-23-dojdea-tlr-foia-request +updates: +- date: 2024-05-17T17:00:00-04:00 + title: Denial appealed + body: >- + On May 17, 2024, the Data Liberation Project [filed another appeal 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24672058-2024-05-17-appeal-of-dea-foia-22-01101-f-singer-vine), arguing that the exemptions cited in the February 27 denial do not apply to the entirety of the records requested.The appeal has been [assigned tracking number A-2024-01699 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24672059-2024-05-17-appeal-acknowledgment-a-24-01699). +- date: 2024-02-27T14:26:00-05:00 + title: Remanded portion of request denied + body: >- + On February 27, 2024, the DEA [declined 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24537677-2024-02-27-determination-appeal-remand) to provide records responsive to the portion of the request remanded by the appeals officer, citing FOIA exemptions 2 and 7(E). +- date: 2024-02-22T14:26:00-05:00 + title: Appeal partly granted + body: >- + On February 22, 2024, the Department of Justice sent a [determination letter 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24537676-2024-02-22-a-2023-01489_response) in response to the DLP's appeal. Regarding the data records, the agency upheld the DEA's original determination, arguing that "it would require DEA to conduct an unreasonably burdensome search. Your request is not reasonably described because you did not characterize the records sought in such a way that they could be located without conducting thousands of hours of search." Regarding the documentation records, the appeal determination remanded that portion back to the DEA, asking them to conduct a search for responsive records. +- date: 2023-06-21T10:24:00-04:00 + title: Appeal filed + body: >- + On June 21, 2023, the Data Liberation Project [filed an appeal 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23854928-2023-06-21-appeal-of-dea-foia-22-01101-f-singer-vine) of the initial outcome of this request, citing an inadequate search. The appeal has been [assigned tracking number A-2023-01489 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23855142-2023-06-21-a-23-01489). +- date: 2023-05-12T16:57:00-04:00 + title: Some records provided + body: >- + On May 12, 2023, the DEA sent a [determination letter 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23813617-2023-05-12-signed-det-65) regarding this request, along with [two spreadsheets](https://github.com/data-liberation-project/dea-theft-and-loss-counts) the letter says are responsive to the Data Liberation Project's request. The agency did not provide any of the underlying report data requested, nor the documentation requested. + +- date: 2022-09-27T19:03:00-04:00 + title: Request Acknowledged, Placed on "Complex Track" + body: >- + On September 27, 2022, the DEA [emailed an acknowledgment letter 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23070510-2022-09-27-dea-foia_pa-case-number-22-01101-f-acknowledgment-letter) regarding this request, which has been assigned to the "complex" processing track. "The records you seek require searches in another office or offices, and so your request falls within 'unusual circumstances.' [...] Because of these unusual circumstances, we are extending the time limit to respond to your request beyond the ten additional days provided by the statute. We have not yet completed a search to determine whether there are records within the scope of your request." + +--- + +The Drug Enforcement Administration [requires](https://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/21cfr_reports/theft/index.html) all entities it has authorized to manufacture or handle [controlled substances](https://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/schedules/) to inform the agency about any "theft or significant loss of any controlled substance, disposal receptacles or listed chemicals within one business day of discovery of such loss or theft." + +Those reports are collected via the DEA's [Theft Loss Reporting (`TLR`) system](https://apps.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/TLR/), which allows registrants to submit the following forms electronically: + +- [Form DEA-106](https://deadiversion.usdoj.gov/21cfr_reports/theft/DEA_Form_106.pdf), “Report of Theft or Loss of Controlled Substances,” [OMB Control No. 1117-0001](https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAOMBHistory?ombControlNumber=1117-0001) +- [Form DEA-107](https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/DownloadDocument?objectID=103735201), “Report of Theft or Loss of Listed Chemical,” [OMB Control No. 1117-0024](https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAOMBHistory?ombControlNumber=1117-0024) + +According to the agency's filings with Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, the DEA receives [as many as 37,047 submissions of Form DEA-106 annually](https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAViewICR?ref_nbr=202005-1117-002), and [as many as 3,827 for Form DEA-107](https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAViewICR?ref_nbr=202008-1117-005). + +To our knowledge, the DEA proactively publishes only highly-aggregated information collected through the `TLR` system. In its [2020 National Drug Threat Assessment report](https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2021-02/DIR-008-21%202020%20National%20Drug%20Threat%20Assessment_WEB.pdf), the DEA notes that more than 6 million dosage units of opioids were reported stolen or lost in 2019 and that two states (Missouri and Arizona) each accounted for more than 2,000 incidents of controlled prescription drugs being lost in transit that year. These figures suggest that the theft and loss of controlled substances and listed chemicals are widespread, and contain important local variations that the DEA’s published reports do not fully capture. + +[Our FOIA request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22925202-2022-09-23-dojdea-tlr-foia-request) to the DEA seeks all database records collected through the `TLR` system, Form DEA-106, and Form DEA-107 (excluding narrative data fields and data fields that contain personal information about individual persons), plus all relevant database documentation. + +The disclosure of these records would allow the public to identify important trends in controlled substance theft/loss that could help identify problems in their communities, as well as to hold the DEA accountable regarding [its responsibility](https://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/Inside.html) “to prevent, detect, and investigate the diversion of controlled pharmaceuticals and listed chemicals from legitimate sources[.]” diff --git a/content/requests/dod-army-slot-machines.md b/content/requests/dod-army-slot-machines.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1e495ff --- /dev/null +++ b/content/requests/dod-army-slot-machines.md @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +--- +title: Army Slot Machines +agency: Department of Defense (DOD) ▹ Department of the Army +date: 2024-05-14T00:00:00-04:00 +status: Acknowledged +request_id: FP-24-025815 +last_updated: 2024-08-16 +summary: We're requesting detailing the presence, operation, and finances of slot machines on military property. +request_letter: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24662028-2024-05-14-army-slot-machine-foia-request-singer-vinelongman +updates: +- date: 2024-08-16T08:45:00-04:00 + title: Rerouted Request Acknowledged + body: >- + On August 16, 2024, the Installation Management Command (IMCOM) Headquarters FOIA office acknowledged the rerouted request and assigned it case number `FP-24-025815`. +- date: 2024-08-13T10:42:00-04:00 + title: Request Acknowledged and Rerouted + body: >- + On August 13, 2024, the Army acknowledged to this request and assigned it case number `FA-24-3008 / FP-24-025490`, but indicated that it will be rerouted to the Installation Management Command (IMCOM) Headquarters FOIA office, "[t]he correct office to process your request". + +--- + +*This request is a collaboration with journalist [Molly Longman](https://www.molly-longman.com/).* + + +A [2017 report from the Government Accountability Office](https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-17-114) indicates that the Department of Defense and Army maintain records about the numbers, locations, and revenues of slot machines on overseas military installations. According to data the DOD provided to the GAO, "in fiscal years 2011 through 2015, DOD-run slot machines generated a total of $538.9 million in revenue." The Army accounted for roughly half of that revenue. + +Very few details, however, are publicly available regarding the operation of those slot machines. + +[Our FOIA request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24662028-2024-05-14-army-slot-machine-foia-request-singer-vinelongman) to the Army seeks all records — spreadsheets, databases, reports, presentations, and/or memoranda — indicating the number, location, sponsors of, and/or revenue of slot machines on DOD properties. diff --git a/content/requests/dod-child-and-domestic-abuse-incidents.md b/content/requests/dod-child-and-domestic-abuse-incidents.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fb5c4f6 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/requests/dod-child-and-domestic-abuse-incidents.md @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +--- +title: DOD Child and Domestic Abuse Incidents +agency: Department of Defense (DOD) ▹ Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) ▹ Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness +date: 2023-10-06T00:00:00-04:00 +status: Acknowledged +request_id: 24-F-0024 +last_updated: 2023-10-06 +summary: We're requesting records from the Department of Defense's child and domestic abuse incident reporting system. +request_letter: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24017885-2023-10-06-dod-fap-central-registry-data-foia-request-singer-vine + +--- + +*This request is a collaboration with [Kim Nguyen](https://kimhnguyen.com/).* + +The Family Advocacy Program (FAP) [Child Abuse and Domestic Abuse Incident Reporting System](https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/dodi/640001p.pdf) is a Department of Defense database “designed to address prevention, identification, evaluation, treatment, rehabilitation, follow-up, and reporting of child abuse and neglect, domestic abuse, and problematic sexual behavior in children and youth” in military communities. It contains information about each incident, victim, and alleged abuser. + +[Our FOIA request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24017885-2023-10-06-dod-fap-central-registry-data-foia-request-singer-vine) seeks: + +- Records from all [tables and fields](https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/dodm/640001m_vol2.pdf) (except personally identifiable fields) in the database. + +- All records documenting this database system, including record layouts, database schemas, entity relationship diagrams, database diagrams, data dictionaries, glossaries, and user guides. + +Although the Department of Defense publishes [aggregate statistics](https://download.militaryonesource.mil/12038/MOS/Reports/FINAL-DoD-FAP-Report-FY2021.pdf) from the database, the requested records would allow more thorough public analyses of abuse allegations and outcomes. diff --git a/content/requests/dod-excess-defense-article-transfers.md b/content/requests/dod-excess-defense-article-transfers.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3c0b46f --- /dev/null +++ b/content/requests/dod-excess-defense-article-transfers.md @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +--- +title: Excess Defense Article Transfers +agency: Department of Defense (DOD) ▹ Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) ▹ Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) +date: 2024-07-22T00:00:00-04:00 +status: Submitted +request_id: 24-F-1577 +last_updated: 2024-07-22 +summary: We’re requesting an updated copy of the Department of Defense's Excess Defense Articles transfer database. +request_letter: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24926542-2024-07-22-excess-defense-article-foia-request-gitelmansinger-vine + +--- + +*This request is a collaboration with journalist [Alec Gitelman](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alec-gitelman-2175902/).* + +The Department of Defense's [Excess Defense Articles (`EDA`) program](https://www.dsca.mil/programs/excess-defense-articles-eda) offers free and discounted equipment to foreign governments. "Typically, EDA is transferred to support U. S. allies in their modernization efforts and to assist Latin American and Caribbean nations in their counter-narcotics programs," according the [Defense Security Cooperation Agency](https://www.dsca.mil/) (DSCA), which oversees the program. + +In 1992, Congress [required](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24852427-senate-report-102-408-p-86) the Department of Defense to establish a public database with key information about each transfer. To that end, DSCA [publishes a spreadsheet of the transfers online](https://www.dsca.mil/programs/excess-defense-articles-eda), indicating: + +> The recipient country, the item(s) to be transferred and the quantity of each, the implementing agency for each transfer (Army, Navy, Air Force, Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), transfer via grant or sale, the notified acquisition value and current value of the equipment[, … the] status of the transfer and the date of the latest status change. + +Unfortunately, the most recent version of the database publicly available on the DSCA website, [as of mid-July 2024](https://web.archive.org/web/20240717072439/https://www.dsca.mil/programs/excess-defense-articles-eda), appears to include records only through mid-2020. + +[Our FOIA request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24926542-2024-07-22-excess-defense-article-foia-request-gitelmansinger-vine) seeks the latest version of the database, including any FOIA-disclosable data records not provided in the public spreadsheet. It also seeks a copy of all internal EDA database records pertaining to four specific transfers, as well as records documenting the internal EDA database. diff --git a/content/requests/dod-military-housing-environmental-health.md b/content/requests/dod-military-housing-environmental-health.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..26866ab --- /dev/null +++ b/content/requests/dod-military-housing-environmental-health.md @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +--- +title: "Military Housing: Environmental Health & Safety" +agency: Department of Defense (DOD) +date: 2023-03-30T00:00:00-04:00 +date_resubmitted: 2023-10-27T00:00:00-04:00 +status: Resubmitted / Acknowledged +request_id: DON-NAVY-2024-000581 +last_updated: 2023-10-27 +summary: We’re requesting data from the "environmental health and safety module" of the database the Department of Defense uses to track its housing assets. +request_letter: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24088329-2023-10-27-dod_don-emh-ehs-data-foia-request-singer-vine +updates: +- date: 2023-10-27T08:30:00-04:00 + title: Request Resubmitted + body: >- + On October 27, 2023, following the suggestion in letter referenced in the prior update, we [resubmitted the FOIA request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24088329-2023-10-27-dod_don-emh-ehs-data-foia-request-singer-vine) (with minor changes), this time sending it to the Department of the Navy. +- date: 2023-10-17T12:58:00-04:00 + title: No Responsive Records, Resubmission Suggested + body: >- + On October 17, 2023, the Office of the Secretary of Defense emailed a [final response letter 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24088045-2023-10-17-23-f-0663-final-response-letter) indicating that, the "Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition & Sustainment (A&S), a component of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, conducted a search of their records systems based on the information provided in your request. After thorough searches of the electronic records and files of A&S, no records of the kind you described could be identified. […] A&S believes that that your request was misdirected to this office for processing and should be redirected to the Department of the Navy (DON)." +- date: 2023-04-04T10:21:00-04:00 + title: Request Acknowledged, Placed in "Complex" Processing Queue + body: >- + On April 4, 2023, DOD emailed a [letter acknowledging this request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23742613-2023-04-04-23-f-0663-interim-response). The letter indicates that the "request has been placed in our complex processing queue and is being worked based on the order in which the request was received. Our current administrative workload is approximately 3,546 open requests." + + +--- + +The Department of Defense’s “enterprise Military Housing” (`eMH`) system has, since April 2014, been the US military's "authoritative data source" on military's housing assets. + +As noted in a [recent DOD Inspector General report](https://www.dodig.mil/FOIA/FOIA-Reading-Room/Article/3241246/audit-of-medical-conditions-of-residents-in-privatized-military-housing-report/), “according to an eMH program official, the DoD had an ongoing effort to develop an environmental health and safety module in the eMH to track health and safety hazards” in [privatized military housing](https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-22-105866), which accounts for the vast majority of housing on military installations in the US. Per the Inspector General report: + +> An eMH program official stated that the environmental health and safety module was updated and now provides a risk rating from housing inspections, which were based on statutes, regulations, codes, national standards, and Service-specific policies. [...] + +> The eMH program official added that another update, scheduled for February 2022, would include search and reporting capabilities, as well as refinement of risk rating logic, and lab data for asbestos, lead paint, and radon assessments. Finally, the eMH program official stated that the environmental health and safety module would eventually be able to provide visibility of data trends and dashboards for the risk ratings at the enterprise, region, and installation levels. + + +[Our FOIA request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24088329-2023-10-27-dod_don-emh-ehs-data-foia-request-singer-vine) seeks all database records in this "environmental health and safety module." It also seeks all records in the `eMH` system corresponding to inspections, housing inventory, and basic (non-personally identifiable) resident information, so that the environmental health and safety records can be put into context. diff --git a/content/requests/dod-sexual-assault-incident-database.md b/content/requests/dod-sexual-assault-incident-database.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e9eeb50 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/requests/dod-sexual-assault-incident-database.md @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +--- +title: Defense Sexual Assault Incident Database (DSAID) +agency: Department of Defense (DOD) ▹ Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) ▹ Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office (SAPRO) +date: 2023-07-03T00:00:00-04:00 +status: Acknowledged +request_id: 23-F-1061 +last_updated: 2023-07-05 +summary: We’re requesting data from the Department of Defense's "authoritative, centralized case-level database used to collect and maintain information on sexual assaults involving members of the Armed Forces." +request_letter: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23866648-2023-07-03-dsaid-data-foia-request-kiesermansinger-vine +updates: +- date: 2023-07-05T13:40:00-04:00 + title: Request Acknowledged, Placed in "Complex" Processing Queue + body: >- + On July 5, 2023, DOD emailed a [letter acknowledging this request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23867460-2023-07-05-23-f-1061-interim-response). The letter indicates that the "request has been placed in our complex processing queue and is being worked based on the order in which the request was received. Our current administrative workload is approximately 3,546 open requests." + +--- + +*This request is a collaboration with independent researcher Julia Kieserman.* + +The Defense Sexual Assault Incident Database (`DSAID`) is the Department of Defense's "authoritative, centralized case-level database used to collect and maintain information on sexual assaults involving members of the Armed Forces, including tracking and reporting on sexual assault-related retaliation data.” + +Although the Department of Defense [publishes some aggregate statistics](https://www.sapr.mil/reports) on the sexual assault reports it receives (for instance, in [the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office’s annual reports](https://www.sapr.mil/reports)), such statistics are of limited use to members of the public who seek to understand patterns in sexual assault reports and outcomes beyond those pre-designated by the Department’s metrics. The published statistics, for instance, do not compare case outcome/disposition by victim, alleged perpetrator, or incident characteristics. + +The types of records collected in `DSAID` are described in a [Federal Register notice published on October 9, 2019](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/10/09/2019-22078/privacy-act-of-1974-system-of-records). + +[Our FOIA request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23866648-2023-07-03-dsaid-data-foia-request-kiesermansinger-vine) seeks all database records corresponding to the following categories of information identified in that notice: + +- “location of [...] incident” +- “victim [...] relationship to alleged perpetrator” +- “case disposition information” +- “information on line of duty determinations” +- “information on expedited transfers and civilian/military protective orders” +- “alleged perpetrator [...] gender, race, ethnicity; affiliation [...]; service, grade/rank, status [...]; location of assignment” + +We limit our request to records relating to “unrestricted reports,” the reporting method that the Department's Sexual Assault Prevention Response Office [indicates](https://sapr.mil/unrestricted-reporting) “is recommended for victims of sexual assault who desire an official investigation and command notification in addition to healthcare, victim advocacy and legal services.” + +Our request also seeks all database records documenting `DSAID`, to help with the interpretation of the data and to improve public understanding of `DSAID`. diff --git a/content/requests/doi-data-inventories.md b/content/requests/doi-data-inventories.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..94d63fa --- /dev/null +++ b/content/requests/doi-data-inventories.md @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +--- +title: DOI Data Inventories +agency: Department of the Interior (DOI) +date: 2022-12-29T00:00:00-05:00 +status: Request Fulfilled, No Responsive Records +request_id: DOI-OS-2023-001589 +last_updated: 2023-07-17 +summary: We're requesting Department of the Interior records describing its inventories of data and "major information systems." +request_letter: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23560279-2022-12-29-doi-data-inventories-foia-request-singer-vine +updates: +- date: 2023-01-24T12:05:00-05:00 + title: Request Acknowledged + body: >- + On January 24, 2023, the Department of the Interior emailed [an acknowledgment letter 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23586464-2023-01-24-23-001589-ack). It has assigned the request to its "complex" processing track and classified the DLP as a representative of the news media. Additionally: "Because of your entitlements, we do not anticipate there will be billable fees for processing your request, so there is no need for us to address your request for a fee waiver." +- date: 2023-07-17T16:16:00-04:00 + title: Request Fulfilled, No Responsive Records + body: >- + On July 17, 2023, the Department of the Interior emailed [a final response letter 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23886724-2023-07-17-23-001589_final-response). "After a thorough search, it has been determined that Office of the Secretary has no records responsive to you request. The Office of Chief Information Office informed our office that they did not discover any additional data inventories beyond those that are harvested by the current data inventory at data.doi.gov which are reported to data.gov. The program office then queried other bureaus within the Department of the Interior to check if their offices are using other data asset inventories." According to a [document provided alongside the determination 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23886725-2023-07-17-doi-data-inventory-attestation), those bureaus each attested that they held no further data inventories. + +--- + +[44 U.S. Code § 3511(a)](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/44/3511) mandates that “the head of each agency shall, to the maximum extent practicable, develop and maintain a __comprehensive data inventory__ that accounts for all data assets created by, collected by, under the control or direction of, or maintained by the agency.” These comprehensive data inventories have specific requirements, are distinct from “data catalogs,” and are not restricted to public datasets. + +Another portion of federal law, [44 U.S. Code § 3505(c)](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/44/3505), requires that “[t]he head of each agency shall develop and maintain an __inventory of major information systems__ (including major national security systems) operated by or under the control of such agency.” + +[Our FOIA request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23560279-2022-12-29-doi-data-inventories-foia-request-singer-vine) to the Department of the Interior (DOI) seeks all records that contribute to the agency's fulfillment of those two requirements. + +Notably, the DOI’s Chief Data Officer [led a federal working group](https://web.archive.org/web/20220328094444/https://www.cdo.gov/data-inventory/) in the production of an [April 2022 report underscoring the importance of agency data inventories](https://resources.data.gov/assets/documents/CDOC_Data_Inventory_Report_Final.pdf). + +The agency does publish a listing of datasets via [https://data.doi.gov/data.json](https://web.archive.org/web/20221220163807/https://data.doi.gov/data.json), that file appears to be substantially incomplete. For instance: Only 57 entries reference non-public datasets, all maintained by the National Park Service (and none by other subagencies); only five entries reference datasets maintained by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and only one by the Bureau of Reclamation, both numbers being far below the realistic number of datasets those subagencies maintain. diff --git a/content/requests/doi-water-use-inventory.md b/content/requests/doi-water-use-inventory.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5de1091 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/requests/doi-water-use-inventory.md @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +--- +title: National Water Use Inventory +agency: Department of the Interior (DOI) ▹ United States Geological Survey (USGS) +date: 2023-02-16T00:00:00-05:00 +date_resubmitted: 2023-03-13T00:00:00-04:00 +status: Liberated +status_link: "/datasets/usgs-water-use-inventory" +request_id: DOI-USGS-2023-003302 +last_updated: 2024-05-23 +summary: We're requesting a copy of the “comprehensive national water use inventory” mandated by Secure Water Act of 2009. +request_letter: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23706311-2023-03-13-usgs-water-use-inventory-foia-request-singer-vinevarner +updates: +- date: 2024-05-23T08:00:00-04:00 + title: Appeal Filed + body: >- + On May 23, 2024, the Data Liberation Project submitted an [appeal of USGS’s withholding of site identifiers (names, IDs, locations) 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24680069-2024-05-23-appeal-of-doi-usgs-2023-003302-singer-vine), arguing that the cited exemptions do not apply. The appeal has been assigned tracking number 2024-120. +- date: 2024-04-08T22:00:00-04:00 + title: Records Published + body: >- + On April 8, 2024, the Data Liberation Project [published the responsive records](/datasets/usgs-water-use-inventory), [documentation](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fzj-0DEpM2o5s37R7ixI2khjAbYDbT655EvnKWyvVkg/edit) describing what it has learned about the data, as well as a [GitHub repository](https://github.com/data-liberation-project/usgs-water-use-inventory-processing) combining and assessing the records. +- date: 2024-03-06T16:15:00-05:00 + title: Records Provided + body: >- + On March 6, 2024, USGS provided a [final response letter 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24536715-2024-03-06-23-3302-final-response), accompanied by responsive records, which the Data Liberation Project began reviewing. +- date: 2023-03-29T17:50:00-04:00 + title: Acknowledgement of Clarified Request + body: >- + On March 29, 2023, following a March 27 conference call regarding this request, USGS emailed a ["Acknowledgement of Clarified Request" letter](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23736776-2023-03-29-23-3302-acknowledgement-of-clarification). The letter reflects the clarifications we made on the call — chiefly that we're seeking "[a]ll high-resolution water use data which contributed to the aggregated water use inventory," rather than the aggregated statistics already available online. The letter also notes that USGS has not yet made a determination on our request for a fee waiver," that "your request falls into the Extraordinary processing track, and that "[t]here are 40 requests pending ahead of yours in our overall processing queue." +- date: 2023-03-13T15:30:00-04:00 + title: Request Resubmitted + body: >- + On March 13, 2023, following the suggestion in letter referenced in the prior update, we [resubmitted the FOIA request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23706311-2023-03-13-usgs-water-use-inventory-foia-request-singer-vinevarner), with minor changes, this time sending it to the US Geological Survey (USGS). +- date: 2023-03-01T09:23:00-05:00 + title: '"No Responsive Records," Resubmission Suggested' + body: >- + On March 1, 2023, DOI's Office of the Secretary emailed a [final disposition letter 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23706213-2023-03-01-23-002629-final-disposition-letter) indicating that, "After a thorough search of our files, it has been determined that the Office of the Secretary has no records responsive to your request." The letter, however, also suggested that, "To the extent responsive records exist, the records you have requested may be maintained by the United States Geological Survey (USGS). As such, you may wish to submit your request(s) to that agency’s FOIA office[.]" +- date: 2023-02-17T09:40:00-05:00 + title: Request Acknowledged, Assigned to "Complex" Track + body: >- + On February 17, 2023, DOI emailed a [letter acknowledging our request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23685229-2023-02-17-23-002629_ack) and noting the request has been assigned to the "Complex processing track." + +--- + +*This request is a collaboration with [Maddy Varner](https://maddy.zone/) of [The Markup](https://themarkup.org/).* + +[42 U.S. Code § 10368](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/10368), introduced by the Secure Water Act of 2009, requires the Secretary of the Interior to establish a "national water availability and use assessment program." + +The law requires the program to include "the maintenance of a __comprehensive national water use inventory__ to enhance the level of understanding with respect to the effects of spatial and temporal patterns of water use on the availability and sustainable use of water resources[,]" as well as "the __integration of any dataset maintained by any other Federal or State agency__ into the dataset maintained by the Secretary[.]" + +[Our FOIA request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23706311-2023-03-13-usgs-water-use-inventory-foia-request-singer-vinevarner) to the Department of the Interior (DOI) seeks a full copy of all database records corresponding to that inventory and those dataset integrations. It also seeks all relevant database documentation. + +*Note: We sent [our initial FOIA request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23684733-2023-02-16-doi-water-use-inventory-foia-request-singer-vinevarner) (tracking number `DOI-OS-2023-002629`) to DOI's Office of the Secretary, which said it had no responsive records but suggested we resubmit to the US Geological Survey (USGS). See the updates section below for details.* diff --git a/content/requests/dol-file-plans-and-eis-listings.md b/content/requests/dol-file-plans-and-eis-listings.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1e67410 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/requests/dol-file-plans-and-eis-listings.md @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +--- +title: DOL File Plans and EIS Listings +agency: Department of Labor (DOL) ▹ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management (OASAM) +date: 2023-03-27T00:00:00-04:00 +status: Liberated +status_link: "/documents/dol-file-plans-and-eis-listings" +request_id: 2023-F-08834 +last_updated: 2023-07-05 +summary: We're requesting all Department of Labor "file plans" and electronic information system listings. +request_letter: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23726918-2023-03-27-dol-records-management-foia-request-singer-vinedacosta +updates: +- date: 2023-07-05T08:00:00-04:00 + title: Records Published + body: >- + On July 5, 2023, the Data Liberation Project [published the records received](https://www.data-liberation-project.org/documents/dol-file-plans-and-eis-listings/), along with a spreadsheet cataloging those documents. +- date: 2023-06-16T08:56:00-04:00 + title: Records Provided + body: >- + On June 16, 2023, DOL provided records responsive to this request. +- date: 2023-05-09T11:14:00-04:00 + title: Request Acknowledged + body: >- + On May 9, 2023, DOL acknowledged this request via email, and assigned it tracking number 2023-F-08834. + +--- + +*This request is a collaboration with [Marc DaCosta](https://marcdacosta.com/about/index.html).* + +[Our FOIA request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23726918-2023-03-27-dol-records-management-foia-request-singer-vinedacosta) to the Department of Labor (DOL) seeks all department "file plans" and "electronic information system listings," as well as the copies of those types of records already centralized in a [particular internal Sharepoint site](https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/agency-records-management-records). + +[Per the National Archives](https://www.archives.gov/files/records-mgmt/training/material/l1-008/index.html#/lessons/MdHIahEUzvo9gH9BpfVYtucnIwlP9AFc), “A file plan describes the records held in a single office, department, or file station (paper or electronic).” Specifically: + +> It combines information from the records inventory and the records schedule to create a simple tool the office uses to organize, retrieve, and maintain its records. File plans can be used to manage records in all formats, including electronic records. A file plan lists each series held by the unit, including its series title, description, and official retention and disposition as specified in the organization’s records schedule. Most file plans also include information about how the records are to be organized (e.g., file by project number) and where the records are to be stored. A file plan can also include other helpful information by identifying records with special storage requirements for security or privacy and by noting which records are backed up off-site as essential records. File plans make it easy for employees to determine where, how, and for how long they should store the types of records specific to their organization. + +"Electronic information system listing," meanwhile, [appears](https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/agency-records-management-records) to be the agency terminology for the “inventory of major information systems” that [44 U.S. Code § 3505(c)](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/44/3505) requires “[t]he head of each agency [to] develop and maintain[.]” diff --git a/content/requests/dot-political-candidate-airline-credit.md b/content/requests/dot-political-candidate-airline-credit.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fe6f67b --- /dev/null +++ b/content/requests/dot-political-candidate-airline-credit.md @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +--- +title: Political Candidates’ Airline Credit +agency: Department of Transportation (DOT) ▹ Office of the Secretary of Transportation (OST) ▹ Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) +date: 2024-04-02T00:00:00-04:00 +status: Acknowledged +request_id: OST-2024-0388 +last_updated: 2024-04-25 +summary: We’re requesting records submitted by airlines regarding credit they've extended to political candidates for federal office. +request_letter: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24529150-2024-04-02-political-candidate-airline-credit-foia-request-uberoysinger-vine +updates: +- date: 2024-04-25T11:56:00-04:00 + title: Request Acknowledged + body: >- + On April 25, 2024, the Department of Transportation emailed a [letter 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24608725-2024-04-25-ost-acknowledgement-template) acknowledging this request and assigning it tracking number OST-2024-0388. + +--- + +*This request is a collaboration with journalist [Urvashi Uberoy](https://www.nytimes.com/by/urvashi-uberoy).* + +The Department of Transportation [requires](https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAViewDocument?ref_nbr=202106-2138-003) airlines to “submit monthly reports to the Department when the indebtedness for transportation furnished to a candidate, running for Federal office, or to persons acting on behalf of such candidate, exceeds $5,000 on the last day of a month during the 6 months before an election or nomination.” These reports are collected via [DOT Form 183](https://esubmit.rita.dot.gov/QaA/Form183.pdf), which since mid-2010 are supposed to have been submitted electronically as CSVs or PDFs. + +[Our FOIA request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24529150-2024-04-02-political-candidate-airline-credit-foia-request-uberoysinger-vine) seeks all such records submitted since July 16, 2010. + +Although the Federal Election Commission publishes records on candidates’ debts to airlines (see, e.g., [here](https://www.fec.gov/data/debts/?creditor_debtor_name=united+airlines)), the Department of Transportation is the direct collector of the airlines’ version of these records. Access to those filings will allow the public to corroborate the FEC’s records and to identify potential incongruities. + +The records requested also [provide additional details](https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-II/subchapter-D/part-374a#p-374a.6\(b\)\(2\)) on the credit extension not available via the FEC’s public records: “name of account; credit limit for account; the balance, if any, of the amount payable for transportation not paid for in advance; any unpaid balance of the charges for such transportation as of the last day of the month covered by the report, and the length of time that such balance has remained unpaid; a description of the type and value of any bond, collateral, or other security securing such unpaid balance.” diff --git a/content/requests/eeoc-ims-documentation.md b/content/requests/eeoc-ims-documentation.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3e4e92b --- /dev/null +++ b/content/requests/eeoc-ims-documentation.md @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +--- +title: EEOC Integrated Mission System Documentation +agency: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) +date: 2022-11-29T00:00:00-05:00 +status: Records in rolling production +request_id: 820-2023-002324 +last_updated: 2023-10-31 +summary: We're requesting documentation of the main database that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission uses to track discrimination complaints and investigations. +request_letter: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23329270-2022-11-29-eeoc-ims-documentation-foia-request-singer-vine +updates: +- date: 2022-12-12T16:55:00-05:00 + title: Request Acknowledged, Placed on "Complex Track" + body: >- + On December 12, 2022, the EEOC provided an [acknowledgment letter 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23451151-2022-12-12-20221212-ackltr-820-2023-002324) regarding this request, which has been assigned to the "complex" processing track. +- date: 2023-02-03T09:42:00-05:00 + title: Responsive Records Under FOIA Review + body: >- + On February 3, 2023, an EEOC attorney emailed the Data Liberation Project with an update: "The documents have been provided to the FOIA office and we have begun our review. Due to the number of pages provided, and the busy schedule in the department, we will likely need a couple of months to process the documents and have them ready to provide to you." The Data Liberation Project has responded to request that the records be provided on a rolling basis. +- date: 2023-02-23T11:35:00-05:00 + title: First Set of Records Provided + body: >- + On February 23, 2023, the EEOC provided the "[first interim production](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23689387-2023-02-23-20230223_firstinterimlod-820-2023-002324)" of records responsive to this request. It consists of [one PDF](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23689388-2023-02-23-820-2023-002324-interim-1-responsive-documents), which appears to be an entity relationship diagram listing database tables, column names, and the relationships between them. +- date: 2023-06-04T18:34:00-04:00 + title: Estimated Date of Completion Provided + body: >- + On June 4, 2023, in response to an inquiry by the Data Liberation Project, the EEOC provided an estimated completion date of August 31, 2023, and noted that "Draft redactions have been prepared by our office and those redactions are under review by OIT and OFP at this time." +- date: 2023-10-31T19:51:00-04:00 + title: Second Set of Records Provided + body: >- + On October 31, 2023, the EEOC provided a "[second interim production](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24116559-2023-10-31-20231030_interim2lod-820-2023-002324)" of records responsive to this request. It consists of [one 650-page PDF](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24116560-2023-10-31-820-2023-002324-interim-2-responsive-documents) that appears be an Oracle database schema for EEOC's IMS database; it lists the names, columns, and column constraints of 600+ tables. Based on the table names referenced, it seems to describe a different database system than the records provided in the first interim production. + +--- + +The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission uses its [Integrated Mission System](https://www.eeoc.gov/privacy-act/integrated-mission-system-ims-privacy-impact-assessment) (`IMS`) to track employment discrimination complaints and investigations. As a 2020 report commissioned by the EEOC Office of Inspector General explains: + +> IMS is the key database used to track, assign and document key actions taken during a case’s full lifecycle. Accordingly, IMS maintains information on federal complaint hearings records. Information stored includes the complainant’s name, address and demographics; the agency’s name and address; and particular details of the complaint (such as number of days in certain stages, if IMS action code is available); and activities related to the complaint, such as the number of days at each stage of the appeals process as confirmed by Appeals Action codes. + +The agency's [Privacy Impact Assessment for `IMS`](https://www.eeoc.gov/privacy-act/integrated-mission-system-ims-privacy-impact-assessment) generally describes the system's various components and types of data collected, but lacks specific information about how the data are recorded, the structure of the database, and many other essential details. + +[Our FOIA request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23329270-2022-11-29-eeoc-ims-documentation-foia-request-singer-vine) seeks all records that *document* `IMS`, such as database diagrams and user guides, for the purpose of better understanding the system and also to aid in the construction of efficient FOIA requests for particular slices of non-exempt database material in the future. diff --git a/content/requests/epa-risk-management-program.md b/content/requests/epa-risk-management-program.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8631ce9 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/requests/epa-risk-management-program.md @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@ +--- +title: EPA Risk Management Program Database +agency: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ▹ Office of Land and Emergency Management (OLEM) +date: 2022-10-27T00:00:00-04:00 +status: Liberated and updated +status_link: "/datasets/epa-risk-management-program-database" +request_id: EPA-2023-000538 +last_updated: 2023-07-24 +summary: We're requesting the EPA's Risk Management Program (RMP) database, which contains risk management plans and accident histories submitted by "facilities that use extremely hazardous substances." +request_letter: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23257934-2022-10-27-epaolem-rmp-foia-request +updates: +- date: 2022-11-01T14:33:00-04:00 + title: 'Fee Waiver Denied, Appealing' + body: >- + On November 1, 2022, the EPA [emailed a letter 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23258159-2022-11-01-epa-2023-000538-fee-waiver-denial-lette) denying the Data Liberation Project's request for a fee waiver, on the grounds that "[y]our justification did not detail the informative value of the requested records and what would be shared for an increased public understanding." The Data Liberation Project [submitted an appeal of this decision 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23258160-2022-11-01-appeal-of-fee-waiver-denial), supplying additional detail on those questions, later the same day via email. +- date: 2022-11-07T10:17:00-05:00 + title: Fee Waiver Appeal Acknowledged + body: >- + On November 7, 2022, the EPA sent an email acknowledging the Data Liberation Project's appeal of the agency's fee waiver denial and assigning EPA-2023-000670 as the appeal tracking number. "Your appeal is being assigned to an attorney in the Office of General Counsel for processing," according to the email. +- date: 2022-11-30T16:00:00-05:00 + title: 'Fee Waiver Denial Overturned, Complete Fee Waiver Granted' + body: >- + On November 30, 2022, the EPA's Office of General Counsel [emailed a letter 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23322757-2022-11-30-appeal-determination-singer-vine-epa-2023-000538-fee-waiver-signed) overturning the agency's initial denial of a fee waiver for this request. "For the reasons set forth below, I have concluded that your appeal of your request for a complete waiver of fees should be and is granted," the letter states. +- date: 2022-12-01T16:34:00-05:00 + title: Records Provided, DLP Processing + body: >- + On December 1, 2022, the EPA, noting the DLP's successful fee waiver appeal, offered to mail a set of responsive records on a compact disc for free. The DLP agreed and has since received the CD, which it is examining, documenting, and processing for publication. For more details and opportunities to get involved, please see the DLP's [December 6, 2022 newsletter dispatch](https://buttondown.email/data-liberation-project/archive/dlp-dispatch-3/). +- date: 2023-02-21T09:00:00-05:00 + title: Records Made Publicly Available + body: >- + On February 21, 2023, the DLP made the records obtained through this FOIA request, as well as documentation and other resources, [available to the public](/datasets/epa-risk-management-program-database). +- date: 2023-06-09T18:46:00-04:00 + title: Updated Records Requested + body: >- + On June 9, 2023, the EPA informed the Data Liberation Project that an updated version of the RMP database was available for request via FOIA. The DLP submitted a [📄 request for the new records](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23840360-2023-06-09-epaolem-rmp-update-foia-request-singer-vine) later that day. The EPA has assigned it the tracking number EPA-2023-004730. +- date: 2023-07-24T10:00:00-04:00 + title: Updated Records Published + body: >- + On July 5, 2023, the EPA provided access to the latest RMP data, in response to the DLP's June 2023 FOIA. On July 24, 2023, after processing the records and updating the documentation, the Data Liberation Project [published the updated records](/datasets/epa-risk-management-program-database). + +--- + +EPA’s [Risk Management Program (RMP) rule](https://www.epa.gov/rmp/risk-management-program-rmp-rule-overview) “requires facilities that use extremely hazardous substances to develop a Risk Management Plan which: identifies the potential effects of a chemical accident, identifies steps the facility is taking to prevent an accident, and spells out emergency response procedures should an accident occur.” + +These facilities must submit their Risk Management Plans and accident histories to the EPA’s Office of Land and Emergency Management (OLEM) on a regular basis. + +The agency stores the RMP records in what it [has referred to](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/08/31/2022-18249/accidental-release-prevention-requirements-risk-management-programs-under-the-clean-air-act-safer) as the “RMP National Database.” + +The EPA has previously released versions of that database via FOIA and provides some access [via physical reading rooms](https://www.epa.gov/rmp/federal-reading-rooms-risk-management-plans-rmp) but, to the best of our knowledge, there is no current source of direct public access to the records. + +Indeed, the agency itself has [publicly lamented this situation](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/08/31/2022-18249/accidental-release-prevention-requirements-risk-management-programs-under-the-clean-air-act-safer), writing that the current "barriers [to accessing the RMP data] do not appropriately facilitate community right-to-know or equitable distribution of knowledge on fenceline community risks to those most affected by potential releases," and that "current, publicly available information on the risk management plan national database is insufficient for informing communities about RMP-regulated facilities." + +For many years, information drawn from the database was available via the Center for Effective Government's [Right to Know Network](https://web.archive.org/web/20150323052221/http://www.rtknet.org/db/rmp), [later adopted by the Houston Chronicle and Reynolds Journalism Institute](https://rjionline.org/news/houston-chronicle-rji-partner-to-keep-chemical-company-data-site-available-for-journalists/), but those resources are no longer operational. + +[Our FOIA request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23257934-2022-10-27-epaolem-rmp-foia-request) to the EPA seeks all records in the RMP National Database (with the exception of the "Off-Site Consequence Analysis" records deemed non-disclosable by [40 CFR Part 1400](https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-40/chapter-IV/subchapter-A/part-1400)), plus all relevant database documentation. diff --git a/content/requests/federal-inmate-complaints.md b/content/requests/federal-inmate-complaints.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d2f26d1 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/requests/federal-inmate-complaints.md @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +--- +title: Federal Inmate Complaints +agency: Department of Justice (DOJ) ▹ Bureau of Prisons (BOP) +date: 2022-10-27T00:00:00-04:00 +status: Liberated +status_link: "/datasets/federal-inmate-complaints" +request_id: 2023-00373 +last_updated: 2024-07-09 +summary: We're requesting data stored in one particular component of the Bureau of Prison's SENTRY database — records that track inmates' formal complaints and the agency's responses. +request_letter: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23258047-2022-10-27-dojbop-sentry-administrative-remedy-foia-request +updates: +- date: 2024-07-09T10:00:00-04:00 + title: Records Published + body: >- + On July 9, 2024, the Data Liberation Project [published the responsive records](/datasets/federal-inmate-complaints) and [documentation](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vTuyUFNqS9tex4_s4PgmhF8RTvTb-uFMN5ElDjjVHTM/edit) describing the data and providing guidance for using it. +- date: 2024-06-10T09:57:00-04:00 + title: Records Provided + body: >- + On June 10, 2024, BOP [provided](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24796144-2024-06-10-foia-request-2023-00373) a set of responsive records, which the Data Liberation Project began reviewing. +- date: 2022-10-28T08:34:00-04:00 + title: Request Acknowledged, Placed on "Complex Track" + body: >- + On October 28, 2022, BOP [emailed an acknowledgment letter 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23258158-2022-10-28-2023-00373-dd) regarding this request, which has been assigned to the "complex" processing track. The agency has not made a determination on the request for a fee waiver. + +--- + +*This request was inspired by a conversation with [Nausheen Husain](https://nausheenhusain.github.io/), a journalist and Syracuse professor who has reported on conditions in federal prisons.* + +The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP)’s [Administrative Remedy Program](https://www.bop.gov/policy/progstat/1330_018.pdf) “allow[s] an inmate to seek formal review of an issue relating to any aspect of his/her own confinement.” + +BOP tracks those complaints through `SENTRY`, the agency's “[primary mission support database](https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/legacy/reports/BOP/a0325/final.pdf)” — specifically, `SENTRY`’s “Administrative Remedy System module,” a component of the system dedicated to tracking such complaints and their follow-up. + +Information tracked through the module, also known as “Inmate Administrative Remedy Record System, JUSTICE/BOP-004,” [includes](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2002/09/09/02-22792/privacy-act-of-1974-system-of-records): + +> (1) Inmate information including (a) name; (b) register number; (c) institution location; (d) current offense and sentence; (e) prior criminal record; (f) social background; (g) institution adjustment; (h) institution program data; (i) medical information; and (j) personal property data; (2) complaint information including copies of BOP-9's (institution level complaints), BOP-10's (Region appeals) and BOP-11's (Central Office appeals); and (3) processing information, including dates of filing and responses. + +[Our FOIA request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23258047-2022-10-27-dojbop-sentry-administrative-remedy-foia-request) to BOP seeks all database records stored within this module, with the exception of data fields that contain personally-identifiable information, plus all relevant database documentation. diff --git a/content/requests/fema-disaster-housing.md b/content/requests/fema-disaster-housing.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..78a88f0 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/requests/fema-disaster-housing.md @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@ +--- +title: FEMA Disaster Housing +agency: Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ▹ Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) +date: 2022-09-23T00:00:02-04:00 +status: Interim Response Provided +status_link: "/documents/fema-disaster-housing" +request_id: 2022-FEFO-00865 +last_updated: 2024-04-03 +summary: We're requesting the database that FEMA uses to track the "direct housing" assistance it provides to people affected by major disasters. +request_letter: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22925200-2022-09-23-dhsfema-homes-foia-request +updates: +- date: 2024-04-03T17:12:00-04:00 + title: Documents Provided via Interim Response + body: >- + On April 3, 2024, FEMA provided an “interim response” [containing seven documents](/documents/fema-disaster-housing/). Five of the documents, spanning 139 pages, were not redacted; the two other documents, spanning 100 pages, were entirely redacted. +- date: 2022-09-27T09:28:00-04:00 + title: Request Acknowledged, Fee Waiver Conditionally Granted + body: >- + On September 27, 2022, FEMA [emailed an acknowledgment letter 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23070506-2022-09-27-fema-foia-2022-fefo-00865-acknowledgement-letter) regarding this request. The agency "has determined that it will conditionally grant your request for a fee waiver." It also notes, "Due to current working conditions in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, please expect a delay in our response." + +--- + +The Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) provides two main types of assistance to people affected by major disasters: financial assistance and "direct housing" assistance. + +Receiving direct housing assistance means that FEMA acquires and provides a temporary place for you to live. The main options for direct housing are: + +- Recreational Vehicles +- Manufactured Housing Units +- Multi-Family Lease and Repair +- Direct Lease +- Permanent Housing Construction + +For more details about each option, see Table 1 of [FEMA's Direct Housing Guide](https://www.fema.gov/sites/default/files/2020-07/Direct_Housing_Guide_Feb2020.pdf) (February 2020). For further context, see the Congressional Research Service's [overview of FEMA's individual assistance programs](https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R46014/8). + +FEMA tracks its direct housing operations through its __Housing Operations Management +Enterprise System (`HOMES`)__, which the [Direct Housing Guide](https://www.fema.gov/sites/default/files/2020-07/Direct_Housing_Guide_Feb2020.pdf) calls "the Direct Housing system of record." `HOMES` is a component of of FEMA's National Emergency Management Information System (`NEMIS`), and specifically `NEMIS`'s "Individual Assistance" subsystem, `NEMIS-IA`. + +The Data Liberation Project has been unable to locate public documentation concerning the specific structure of `HOMES` or a comprehensive accounting of the fields it contains. But the [Direct Housing Guide](https://www.fema.gov/sites/default/files/2020-07/Direct_Housing_Guide_Feb2020.pdf) describes some aspects of it. For instance, `HOMES` appears to track: + +- Information about __applicants__ eligible for direct housing assistance, including a large amount of information that is personally-identifiable and potentially sensitive. +- The selection, inspection, and development of potential __sites__ for direct housing. +- The __progress__ installing temporary housing units, and preparing them for occupancy. +- Occupant __move-in and move-out__ dates. + +To our knowledge, vanishingly little data from `HOMES` is available to the public. + +[Our FOIA request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22925200-2022-09-23-dhsfema-homes-foia-request) to FEMA seeks all database records stored in `HOMES` (excluding data fields containing personally identifying information), plus all relevant database documentation. + +The release of this data would shed invaluable light on a core component of FEMA's response to major disasters, which journalists and watchdogs have criticized. (See, for instance, recent coverage in [The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/23/climate/climate-disaster-relief-fema.html) and [The Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/10/17/disaster-survivors-fema-housing-trailer/).) + +The records could also clarify how well the system itself is working, another issue of potential concern. As a [2020 report by the Government Accountability Office](https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-20-503.pdf) noted: + +> [...] program officials said this system—which is FEMA’s system of record for tracking direct temporary housing assistance—lacks controls; is inconsistently used by field staff; and has incomplete information, contributing to information-sharing challenges. + +Even if inconsistencies and incompleteness ultimately prevent certain types of analysis, the public deserves to understand the specific nature of those problems. diff --git a/content/requests/fmcs-f-7-notices.md b/content/requests/fmcs-f-7-notices.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6dccf80 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/requests/fmcs-f-7-notices.md @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +--- +title: Collective Bargaining Notices (FMCS F-7) +agency: Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) +date: 2023-08-25T00:00:00-04:00 +status: Appeal Denied +request_id: FOIA-2024-00009 +last_updated: 2024-03-07 +summary: We're requesting detailed data on notices of "upcoming collective bargaining" submitted to federal labor mediators. +request_letter: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23927252-2023-08-25-fmcs-f-7-data-tables-foia-request-greggsinger-vine +updates: + - date: 2024-03-07T16:16:00-05:00 + title: Appeal Denied + body: >- + On March 7, 2024, [FMCS denied our appeal 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24554494-2024-03-07-2024-app-00033), determining that the redactions applied to the records were justified and that "identifiers were not withheld, rather they did not exist." + - date: 2024-02-09T19:00:00-05:00 + title: Appeal Filed + body: >- + On February 9, 2024, we [submitted an appeal 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24415944-2024-02-09-appeal-of-fmcs-foia-2024-00009) to FMCS regarding this case. + - date: 2024-01-10T15:56:00-05:00 + title: Initial Response Received, Records Largely Withheld + body: >- + On January 10, 2024, FMCS emailed its [response to our request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24401529-2024-01-10-foia-partial-grant). The agency provided a large CSV file, with most of its content redacted, arguing that (1) “some of the records are exempt” via a “mediation privilege”, and (2) “some responsive records constitute confidential commercial or financial information”. The remaining, non-withheld records appear to be those already available through the [F-7 spreadsheets FMCS already publishes online](https://www.fmcs.gov/resources/documents-and-data/). + - date: 2023-10-27T13:12:00-04:00 + title: Second Request Acknowledgment + body: >- + On October 27, 2023, FMCS emailed [a letter 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24089899-2023-10-27-foia-acknowledgment-letter) acknowledging this request and assigning it tracking number FOIA-2024-00009. + - date: 2023-09-11T09:08:00-04:00 + title: Request Acknowledged + body: >- + On September 11, 2023, FMCS sent an email acknowledging this request and assigning it tracking number FOIA-2023-00045. + +--- + +*Note: This request is a collaboration with [Forest Gregg](https://mastodon.social/@fgregg), who maintains a [free, open-source database of data relevant to the labor movement](https://labordata.bunkum.us/).* + +The [Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service](https://www.fmcs.gov/) (FMCS) is an independent federal agency that helps to mediate labor-management disputes. As part of those efforts, it requires employers entering collective bargaining negotiations to submit an “[F-7 notice](https://www.fmcs.gov/resources/forms-applications/notice-of-bargaining-f-7/),” providing information about the upcoming bargaining. + +Although FMCS publishes [spreadsheets containing some data from those submissions](https://www.fmcs.gov/resources/documents-and-data/#tab-d3d7f5344cef9bab4d3), its internal database includes helpful additional details (such as the database’s unique identifiers associated with each employer and union), as evidenced by the [schema provided](https://www.data-liberation-project.org/documents/fmcs-case-management-system-schema/) to the Data Liberation Project in response to [FOIA-2023-00009](https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/fmcs-work-stoppages/). + +[Our FOIA request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23927252-2023-08-25-fmcs-f-7-data-tables-foia-request-greggsinger-vine) to FMCS seeks those full details. Specifically, it seeks all entries in the FMCS case management database's `pt_fmcscase` table, with the exception of FOIA-exempt columns, where the case originates with a FMCS F-7 notice as indicated in the `pt_f7noticesubmissionformat` or `pt_f7noticesubmissionformatname` columns (or better means as determined by FMCS staff), plus related database-lookup tables. diff --git a/content/requests/fmcs-work-stoppages.md b/content/requests/fmcs-work-stoppages.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..922f49e --- /dev/null +++ b/content/requests/fmcs-work-stoppages.md @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +--- +title: Work Stoppages +agency: Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) +date: 2022-12-26T00:00:00-05:00 +status: Partial Grant +request_id: FOIA-2023-00009 +last_updated: 2023-02-09 +summary: We're requesting data collected by federal mediators on the characteristics of work stoppages (strikes and lockouts). +request_letter: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23557284-2022-12-26-fmcs-work-stoppages-fmcs-0004-documentation-foia-request-singer-vine +updates: +- date: 2023-02-09T10:02:00-05:00 + title: Partial Grant + body: >- + On February 9, 2023, FMCS’s FOIA office [responded](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23622117-2023-02-09-foia-partial-grant) with a “partial grant,” providing the Data Liberation Project with just one documentation file, and withholding all other records. “There are 733 pages of records fully redacted under FOIA Exemption 4 and 6,” according the agency’s letter. In the meantime, we’ve [uploaded the one file](https://github.com/data-liberation-project/fmcs-work-stoppage-records) the agency did provide: An Excel spreadsheet named “Prod Schema.xlsx”. (The Data Liberation Project intended to appeal the decision, but ultimately missed the deadline to do so.) +- date: 2023-01-25T14:12:00-05:00 + title: Extension Letter + body: >- + On January 25, 2023, FMCS emailed [a letter 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23586874-2023-01-25-foia-extension-letter) "notifying you of an extension of our time to respond by 10 business days due to the following reason as provided by 5 U.S.C. § 552(a)(6)(B)(i): The need to search for and collect the requested records from field facilities or other establishments that are separate from the office processing the request." + +--- + +*Note: This request was inspired by a [similar request by Forest Gregg](https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/work-stoppage-date-from-january-2021-through-august-2021-119149/), which FMCS denied for reasons that the Data Liberation Project believes were weakly supported.* + +The [Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service](https://www.fmcs.gov/) (FMCS) is an independent federal agency that helps to mediate labor-management disputes. As part of those efforts, it tracks work stoppages (strikes and lockouts) through its case management system. + +For many years, FMCS proactively [published data](https://web.archive.org/web/20210105232710/https://www.fmcs.gov/resources/documents-and-data/#fusion-tab-workstoppagedata) on the general characteristics of individual work stoppages. Those records included the following information for each ongoing and recently ended stoppage: + +- Employer +- Union +- Union Local +- Case Number +- BU (“number of workers in the Bargaining Unit”) +- NAICS +- Industry +- City, State +- \# Idled +- Start Date +- End Date +- Duration + +FMCS, however, appears to have ended this practice of proactive disclosure in late 2020. The section of the FMCS’s website that originally hosted the data has been removed, and the files do not appear to be available elsewhere, other than through archiving websites. + +FMCS is unlikely to have stopped collecting this information. It is central to FMCS’s core mission and, moreover, FMCS appears to have continued supplying such information to the Bureau of Labor Statics, which republishes a subset of it online through the BLS’s [Work Stoppages Program](https://www.bls.gov/wsp/). + +That program, however, publishes data only on the largest work stoppages, those involving 1,000 or more workers. To members of the public that ask, “Where do I find data on work stoppages with less than 1,000 workers?” [BLS responds](https://www.bls.gov/wsp/questions-and-answers.htm), “The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) issues a monthly report showing all private industry work stoppages.” + +[Our FOIA request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23557284-2022-12-26-fmcs-work-stoppages-fmcs-0004-documentation-foia-request-singer-vine) to FMCS seeks database records describing the general characteristics of all FMCS-tracked work stoppages, plus all documentation of [FMCS-0004](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/03/16/2022-05544/privacy-act-of-1974-system-of-records), the system of records that appears to contain the records. diff --git a/content/requests/hud-elevated-blood-lead-level-tracker.md b/content/requests/hud-elevated-blood-lead-level-tracker.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..acefae8 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/requests/hud-elevated-blood-lead-level-tracker.md @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +--- +title: Elevated Blood Lead Levels In Public Housing +agency: Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) ▹ Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH) +date: 2023-01-26T00:00:00-05:00 +status: Acknowledged +request_id: 23-FI-HQ-00983 +last_updated: 2023-03-31 +summary: We're requesting the database HUD uses to track elevated blood lead levels in children living in public and voucher-based housing. +request_letter: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23587395-2023-01-26-hud-elevated-blood-lead-level-tracker-foia-request-singer-vine +updates: +- date: 2023-01-26T14:50:00-05:00 + title: Request Acknowledged, Placed on "Complex" Track + body: >- + On January 26, 2023, HUD [emailed a letter 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23587613-2023-01-26-acknowledgement-of-foia-23-fi-hq-00593) acknowledging this request and placing it on the agency's "complex" processing track. + +- date: 2023-02-13T15:00:00-05:00 + title: Tracking Number Changed + body: >- + On February 13, 2023, HUD emailed a notice that they have changed the tracking number for this request from 23-FI-HQ-00593 to 23-FI-RO2-00688. + +- date: 2023-03-13T10:59:00-04:00 + title: Tracking Number Changed (Again) + body: >- + On March 13, 2023, HUD emailed a notice that they have changed the tracking number for this request from 23-FI-RO2-00688 to 23-FI-HQ-00846. + +- date: 2023-03-14T12:11:00-04:00 + title: Tracking Number Changed (Again-Again) + body: >- + On March 14, 2023, HUD emailed a notice that they have changed the tracking number for this request from 23-FI-HQ-00846 to 23-FI-RO2-00859. + +- date: 2023-03-31T10:38:00-04:00 + title: Tracking Number Changed (Again-Again-Again) + body: >- + On March 31, 2023, HUD emailed a notice that they have changed the tracking number for this request from 23-FI-RO2-00859 to 23-FI-HQ-00983. + +--- + +[Lead-based paint](https://www.epa.gov/lead/protect-your-family-sources-lead) poses [substantial health risks](https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/healthy_homes/healthyhomes/lead) to residents of homes these hazards have not been remediated. The federal government banned the residential use of lead-based paint, but more than 100,000 of today's public housing buildings were constructed before that year, according to a [recent Development of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Office of Inspector General report](https://www.hudoig.gov/reports-publications/report/risk-indicators-lead-based-paint-hazards-public-housing-agencies). + +A [June 2018 report by the Government Accountability Office](https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-18-394) identified two key internal databases that HUD has used to track lead-related risks and remediation. In November 2022, the Data Liberation Project [filed a FOIA request]({{< ref lead-based-paint-response-tracker.md >}}) for the first component, a database it calls the Lead-Based Paint Response Tracker. + +Now we're seeking the second component, the Elevated Blood Lead Level Tracker, which the GAO report says HUD "uses to collect and monitor information reported by PHAs on cases of elevated blood levels in children living in voucher and public housing units." + +[Our FOIA request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23587395-2023-01-26-hud-elevated-blood-lead-level-tracker-foia-request-singer-vine) asks for a full copy of the Elevated Blood Lead Level Tracker and all relevant database documentation. diff --git a/content/requests/hud-fair-housing-complaints-and-cases.md b/content/requests/hud-fair-housing-complaints-and-cases.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..875e347 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/requests/hud-fair-housing-complaints-and-cases.md @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +--- +title: Housing Discrimination Complaints and Cases +agency: Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) ▹ Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity (FHEO) +date: 2024-05-08T00:00:00-04:00 +status: Acknowledged +request_id: 24-FI-HQ-01712 +last_updated: 2024-05-13 +summary: We’re requesting records from HUD databases that track complaints by people alleging housing discrimination and the agency's inquiries into those cases. +request_letter: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24655569-2024-05-08-hems-and-form-903-admin-data-records-foia-request-uberoysinger-vine +updates: +- date: 2024-05-13T08:18:00-04:00 + title: Request Acknowledged, Placed on "Complex" Track + body: >- + On May 13, 2024, HUD [emailed a letter 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24661461-2024-05-13-24-fi-hq-01712-fee-waiver-and-expedited-processing-response) acknowledging this request and denying our request for expedited processing. + +--- + +*This request is a collaboration with journalist [Urvashi Uberoy](https://www.nytimes.com/by/urvashi-uberoy).* + +The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) maintains two key databases related to fair housing complaints: + +- The Form 903 Admin tool, named after the agency's [main fair housing complaint form](https://www.hud.gov/sites/documents/DOC_12150.PDF), which can be submitted [online](https://portalapps.hud.gov/FHEO903/Form903/Form903Start.action) and through other means. + +- The [HUD Enforcement Management System](https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/fair_housing_equal_opp/system/hems) (`HEMS`), "the system where case data on housing discrimination complaint inquiries and case files are documented during the investigation process." + +[Our FOIA request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24655569-2024-05-08-hems-and-form-903-admin-data-records-foia-request-uberoysinger-vine) seeks complaint- and case-level records (minus personally-identifying information) maintained in these databases since 2010. diff --git a/content/requests/hud-tenant-terminations.md b/content/requests/hud-tenant-terminations.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2ccb2d4 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/requests/hud-tenant-terminations.md @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +--- +title: Public Housing Tenant Terminations +agency: Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) ▹ Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH) +date: 2023-04-27T00:00:00-04:00 +status: Appeal Partly Granted +request_id: 23-FI-HQ-01148 +last_updated: 2024-08-08 +summary: We're requesting data on public housing authorities' removals of tenants from public and subsidized housing. +request_letter: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23790332-2023-04-27-hud-terminations-data-foia-request-kiesermansinger-vine +updates: +- date: 2024-08-08T15:15:00-04:00 + title: Appeal Partly Granted + body: >- + On August 8, 2024, HUD [responded to our appeal 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25047855-2024-08-08-foia-appeal-24-a-hq-00043-singer-vine-882024), partly granting it and partly denying it. HUD takes the stance that the aggregated summary data are the only segregable portions of the records, and that providing any additional details would impinge on tenants' personal privacy. HUD has agreed, however, to check whether the records can be provided in a spreadsheet format rather than as a PDF. +- date: 2024-07-12T12:12:00-04:00 + title: Appeal Filed + body: >- + On July 12, 2024, after several months of seeking clarification from HUD and improvement of the records provided, the Data Liberation Project [filed an appeal 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24805246-2024-06-12-foia-appeal-of-hud-23-fi-hq-01148) of the agency's response. The appeal has been assigned tracking number 24-A-HQ-00043. +- date: 2024-04-15T08:00:00-04:00 + title: Initial Determination Provided + body: >- + On April 19, 2024, HUD provided a [determination letter 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24805012-2024-04-12-23-fi-hq-01148-jeremy-singer-vine-granted-in-partpdf-signed) (dated April 12, 2024) and [19 pages of records 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24805107-2024-04-15-23-fi-hq-01148-records-initially-provided) it considered responsive to the request; unfortunately, those records provided only aggregate summary information, rather than the actual records requested. +- date: 2023-04-27T15:32:00-04:00 + title: Request Acknowledged, Placed on "Complex" Track + body: >- + On April 27, 2023, HUD [emailed a letter 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23791122-2023-04-27-acknowledgement-of-foia-23-fi-hq-01148) acknowledging this request and placing it on the agency's "complex" processing track. + +--- + +*This request is a collaboration with independent researcher Julia Kieserman.* + +Public housing authorities have the ability to remove tenants from public housing and voucher programs, and have broad discretion in their policies for taking such actions. Little is known, however, about how often this happens, for what reasons, and how those frequencies or reasons vary by public housing authority. + +The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) maintains a database system called the Enterprise Income Verification (`EIV`) system, whose stated purpose is “to support up-front income verification by providing income information to be used by [public housing authorities] during tenant recertification as well as related tools to be used in identifying possible dual entitlement situations and whether applicants already are receiving HUD rental housing assistance.” + +The system *also* contains a “Debts Owed to PHA's and Terminations” module, which "allows users to access information concerning former tenants who left owing a debt to a PHA or who had their voucher terminated for cause.” Among the records available for each termination are the following fields: + +- Date of Initial Entry +- Date of Update +- PHA Code +- Program Type +- PHA Name +- End of Participation Date +- End of Participation Status [also phrased as “Reason for Termination”] +- Repayment Agreement +- Default on Repayment Agreement +- Bankruptcy + +[Our FOIA request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23790332-2023-04-27-hud-terminations-data-foia-request-kiesermansinger-vine) to HUD seeks database records matching the fields listed above, for all entries in the module. (We explicitly are not requesting personally-identifiable information regarding any former tenant recorded in the module, such as the name, former address, or Social Security Number.) diff --git a/content/requests/lead-based-paint-response-tracker.md b/content/requests/lead-based-paint-response-tracker.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8fa4b78 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/requests/lead-based-paint-response-tracker.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +--- +title: Lead Paint Remediation In Public Housing +agency: Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) ▹ Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH) +date: 2022-11-29T00:00:00-05:00 +status: Acknowledged +request_id: 23-FI-HQ-00345 +last_updated: 2022-11-29 +summary: We're requesting the database HUD uses to track progress abating lead-based paint hazards in public housing. +request_letter: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23329267-2022-11-29-hud-lead-based-paint-response-tracker-foia-request-singer-vine + +--- + +[Lead-based paint](https://www.epa.gov/lead/protect-your-family-sources-lead) poses [substantial health risks](https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/healthy_homes/healthyhomes/lead) to residents of homes these hazards have not been remediated. The federal government banned the residential use of lead-based paint, but more than 100,000 of today's public housing buildings were constructed before that year, according to a [recent Development of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Office of Inspector General report](https://www.hudoig.gov/reports-publications/report/risk-indicators-lead-based-paint-hazards-public-housing-agencies). + +In 2016, HUD launched an internal database it calls the Lead-Based Paint Response Tracker, which [another Office of Inspector General report](https://www.hudoig.gov/reports-publications/report/hud-lacked-adequate-oversight-public-housing-agencies-compliance-lead), the agency uses the database to “to track and monitor public housing agencies’ compliance with the Lead Safe Housing Rule”: + +> staff inputs potentially noncompliant developments identified by [the Real Estate Assessment Center] into the response tracking system and then the regional or field office program staff would obtain, evaluate, and input supporting documentation such as, evidence of a lead-based paint inspection or support showing that the development was exempt, and comments into the response tracker. + +[Our FOIA request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23329267-2022-11-29-hud-lead-based-paint-response-tracker-foia-request-singer-vine) to HUD seeks a full copy of the Lead-Based Paint Response Tracker, the documents it tracks, and all relevant database documentation. diff --git a/content/requests/long-covid-questionnaire-responses.md b/content/requests/long-covid-questionnaire-responses.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3f680ba --- /dev/null +++ b/content/requests/long-covid-questionnaire-responses.md @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +--- +title: Long COVID Questionnaire Responses +agency: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ▹ National Institutes of Health (NIH) ▹ National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) +date: 2022-11-28T00:00:00-05:00 +status: Denied, Appealed +request_id: 59334 +last_updated: 2023-11-13 +summary: We're requesting questionnaire responses collected through the government's flagship study of adults with Long COVID, part the billion-dollar RECOVER Initiative. +request_letter: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23329269-2022-11-28-nih-recover-adult-survey-foia-request-singer-vineladyzhets +updates: + - date: 2023-11-13T18:13:00-05:00 + title: Appeal Filed + body: >- + On November 13, 2023, we [submitted an appeal 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24168642-2023-11-13-appeal-of-nih-foia-59334) to HHS regarding this case. The appeal has been assigned tracking number 2024-00037-A-PHS. + - date: 2023-09-08T17:17:00-04:00 + title: Request Denied + body: >- + On September 8, 2023, the NIH emailed a [letter denying access to the requested records 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23962424-2023-09-08-nih-foia-59334-singer-vine-complete-response-letter), “pursuant to Exemptions 3 and 6 of the FOIA, 5 U.S.C. § 552(b)(3) and (b)(6) and sections 5.65 and 5.67 of the HHS FOIA Regulations, 45 C.F.R. Part 5.” The Exemption 3 argument cites “42 USC 241(f), which exempts certain biomedical information from disclosure if it is ‘about an individual and that is gathered or used during the course of biomedical research if, (A) an individual is identified; or (B) there is at least a very small risk, as determined by current scientific practices or statistical methods, that some combination of the information, the request, and other available data sources could be used to deduce the identity of an individual.’“ The NIH did not indicate which aspects of the records would pose this risk, or how. Regarding our request for documentation, the NIH pointed to a [data dictionary available online](https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=https://recovercovid.org/sites/default/files/docs/RECOVERAdultSurveyQuestions.508c.xlsx&wdOrigin=BROWSELINK). + - date: 2022-12-01T08:42:00-05:00 + title: Request Acknowledged, Fee Waiver Not Yet Determined + body: >- + On December 1, 2022, NHLBI [emailed a letter 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23329272-2022-12-01-59334-interim-letter) acknowledging our request and noting, "Because we are uncertain that any applicable fees will exceed our minimum charge ($25.00), we are not addressing your request for a fee waiver at this time." + +--- + +*This request is a collaboration with [Betsy Ladyzhets](https://betsyladyzhets.com/) of [MuckRock](https://www.muckrock.com/)’s [Documenting COVID-19 project](https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2021/sep/22/documenting-covid-19-project-and-muckrock-join-tog/).* + +National Institutes of Health’s [RECOVER Initiative](https://recovercovid.org/) is a congressionally-funded research project “to understand how people recover from a COVID infection, and why some people do not fully recover and develop Long COVID or PASC (post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2).” + +One of the initiative's core components is its “[Adult Study Protocol](https://recovercovid.org/protocols),” which aims to enroll more than 17,000 people over the course of four years and which involves the use of an extensive “Adult Survey Question Library.” [This spreadsheet](https://recovercovid.org/docs/RECOVERAdultSurveyQuestions.508c.xlsx) contains a list of those questions, which cover Long COVID symptoms, COVID treatment history, vaccine status, comorbidities, demographic information, and more. + +[Our FOIA request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23329269-2022-11-28-nih-recover-adult-survey-foia-request-singer-vineladyzhets) seeks all database records collected through that questionnaire, plus all relevant database documentation. Disclosing these records to the public, rather than only to a select group of researchers, could greatly improve public understanding about Long COVID / PASC. It could also help shed light on the progress of the RECOVER Initiative, for which Congress has allocated [$1.15 billion](https://recovercovid.org/funding) in funding. diff --git a/content/requests/niosh-commercial-fishing-incident-database.md b/content/requests/niosh-commercial-fishing-incident-database.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fa328dd --- /dev/null +++ b/content/requests/niosh-commercial-fishing-incident-database.md @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +--- +title: Commercial Fishing Incident Database +agency: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ▹ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ▹ National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) +date: 2023-01-30T00:00:00-05:00 +status: Liberated +status_link: "/datasets/niosh-commercial-fishing-incident-database" +request_id: 23-00625-FOIA +last_updated: 2024-07-08 +summary: We’re requesting a national database of “fatalities and vessel disasters that occur in the US fishing industry.” +request_letter: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23590155-2023-01-30-hhscdcniosh-commercial-fishing-incident-database-foia-request-singer-vine +updates: +- date: 2024-07-08T18:00:00-04:00 + title: Records Published + body: >- + On July 8, 2024, the Data Liberation Project [published the records received](/datasets/niosh-commercial-fishing-incident-database/). +- date: 2024-05-17T16:12:00-04:00 + title: Records Provided + body: >- + On May 17, 2024, the CDC [provided](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24795731-2024-05-17-final-response-with-redactions) records in response to this request — three spreadsheets and 80 pages of documentation, which the Data Liberation Project has begun reviewing for publication. +- date: 2023-01-30T15:55:00-05:00 + title: Request Acknowledged, Placed On "Complex" Track, Fees Waived, Estimated Date Of Completion Provided + body: >- + On January 30, 2023, HUD [emailed a letter 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23590441-2023-01-30-acknowledgement-complex-30-days) acknowledging this request, placing it on the agency's "complex" processing track, agreeing to waive fees, and stating that "[w]e reasonably anticipate that you should receive documents by April 24, 2023." + +--- + +The [Commercial Fishing Incident Database](https://web.archive.org/web/20220122120301/https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/fishing/projects.html) (CFID) “is a surveillance system managed by [the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)] to collect information on fatalities and vessel disasters that occur in the US fishing industry.” The database “contains over 100 variables for each fatality” and [goes back](https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/surveillance/pdfs/surveillance-briefing-document_8.6.19_508.pdf) at least to the year 2000. + +The database enables the government to [ask questions](https://homeport.uscg.mil/Lists/Content/Attachments/938/NIOSH%202010%20high-risk.pdf) such as, “Where are the most hazardous fisheries?” “What are the worst problems?” “What causes fatalities in hazardous fisheries?” and “Where will prevention efforts be most effective?” + +[Our FOIA request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23590155-2023-01-30-hhscdcniosh-commercial-fishing-incident-database-foia-request-singer-vine) seeks full copy of the database, minus fields containing personally-identifiable information. It also seeks all relevant database documentation. diff --git a/content/requests/oil-spill-response-costs.md b/content/requests/oil-spill-response-costs.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..73f8613 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/requests/oil-spill-response-costs.md @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +--- +title: Oil Spill Response Costs +agency: Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ▹ US Coast Guard (USCG) +date: 2022-11-30T00:00:00-05:00 +status: Records in Rolling Release +status_link: "/documents/uscg-oil-spill-response-costs/" +request_id: 2023-CGFO-00339 +last_updated: 2024-08-12 +summary: We're requesting data related to the costs of oil spill responses, collected through several Coast Guard forms. +request_letter: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23329271-2022-11-30-dhsuscgnpfc-spill-response-form-submissions-foia-request-singer-vine +updates: +- date: 2024-08-12T16:00:00-04:00 + title: Initial Records Published + body: >- + On August 12, 2024, the Data Liberation Project [published](/documents/uscg-oil-spill-response-costs/) the initial records it received from USCG, along with descriptions of the documents contained within them. +- date: 2024-07-30T14:07:00-04:00 + title: Initial Records Provided + body: >- + On July 30, 2024, USCG provided an initial 150 pages of responsive records and an indication that additional records would be provided on a rolling basis. + +--- + +When oil spills occur in the US and its waters, he US Coast Guard’s [National Pollution Funds Center](https://www.uscg.mil/Mariners/National-Pollution-Funds-Center/About-NPFC/) (NPFC) "provides funding for quick response, compensates claimants for cleanup costs and damages, and takes action to recover costs from responsible parties." + +[Our FOIA request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23329271-2022-11-30-dhsuscgnpfc-spill-response-form-submissions-foia-request-singer-vine) to the Coast Guard seeks all records collected through three key sets of NPFC forms and workbooks: + +- [Pollution Incident Report and Transmittal Forms](https://www.uscg.mil/Mariners/National-Pollution-Funds-Center/Response/Pollution-IRAT/) (IRAT), which [Federal On-Scene Coordinators](https://www.epa.gov/emergency-response/epas-scene-coordinators-oscs) (FOSCs) submit "as the cover to the project's Final Financial Report, due within 120 days of completion of final removal actions." +- [Pollution Incident Daily Resource Reports](https://www.uscg.mil/Mariners/National-Pollution-Funds-Center/Documentation-Cost/CG5136/) (CG 5136), which contractors must submit for costs incurred each day of the removal activity. +- [Pollution Removal Funding Authorization](https://www.uscg.mil/Mariners/National-Pollution-Funds-Center/Documentation-Cost/PRFAs/) (PRFA) Forms, "a tool available to FOSCs to quickly obtain needed services and assistance from other government agencies." + +Our request also seeks documentation of the database systems holding these records. diff --git a/content/requests/peace-corps-resignations.md b/content/requests/peace-corps-resignations.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..74b387d --- /dev/null +++ b/content/requests/peace-corps-resignations.md @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +--- +title: Peace Corps Resignations +agency: Peace Corps (PC) ▹ Office of Strategic Information, Research, and Planning (OSIRP) +date: 2023-03-31T00:00:00-04:00 +status: Partially Liberated +status_link: "/datasets/peace-corps-resignations" +request_id: 23-0102 +last_updated: 2023-10-10 +summary: We're requesting database records from the Peace Corps indicating volunteers' reasons for resignation. +request_letter: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23736388-2023-03-31-peace-corps-resignations-data-foia-request-faifesinger-vine +updates: +- date: 2023-10-10T10:10:00-05:00 + title: Records Published + body: >- + On October 10, 2023, the Data Liberation Project [published the records received](https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/peace-corps-resignations/) through the appeal. +- date: 2023-08-11T15:13:00-05:00 + title: Appeal Granted + body: >- + On August 11, 2023, the Peace Corps [granted the Data Liberation Project's appeal](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24024460-2023-08-11-23-0186-appeal-response-letter), "reversing our decision to withhold the information under FOIA exemption (b)(5)." Additionally, the agency wrote, "After reviewing your initial FOIA request and appeal, the Peace Corps conducted a second search of the Office of Strategic Information, Research, and Planning (OSIRP). As a result of this new search, we are providing you with a new, comprehensive Excel spreadsheet that contains the data elements for all resignations from the Peace Corps through July 31, 2023." +- date: 2023-07-14T08:07:00-04:00 + title: Appeal Acknowledged + body: >- + On July 14, 2023, the Peace Corps acknowledged our appeal, which has been assigned case number 23-0186. +- date: 2023-07-10T13:13:00-04:00 + title: Appeal Filed + body: >- + On July 10, 2023, co-requestor Faife and the Data Liberation Project filed a [letter appealing this request's determination 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23870105-2023-07-10-appeal-of-foia-23-0102), arguing that responsive records exist and were improperly withheld. +- date: 2023-05-02T15:58:00-04:00 + title: Non-responsive Records Provided + body: >- + On May 2, 2023, the Peace Corps sent [records 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23870103-2023-05-02-resignation-reasons_redacted) it said were responsive to the first part of this request, along with a [final response letter 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23870104-2023-05-02-23-0102-peace-corps-final-response-letter) for that part. The records, however, were a spreadsheet of aggregated, redacted statistics, rather than the records requested. +- date: 2023-04-04T13:01:00-04:00 + title: Request Acknowledged, Placed In "Simple" Category, Fee Waiver Granted + body: >- + On April 4, 2023, the Peace Corps sent an email acknowledging this request. The email indicates that the request has been placed in the "simple" category and that our fee waiver request has been granted. +- date: 2023-03-31T17:01:00-04:00 + title: Request Elaborated + body: >- + On March 31, 2023, in response to our request submission, a Peace Corps information specialist asked if we'd like to modify the request to also cover system of records PC-17's Volunteer Information Database Application (`VIDA`) and Peace Corps Volunteer Database Management System (`PCVDBMS`), which might contain the relevant records. We agreed; per the specialist, our confirmation via email was sufficient and there is no need to file a new request. + + +--- + +*This request is a collaboration with journalist [Corin Faife](https://corinfaife.co/).* + +If a Peace Corps volunteer chooses to resign from their position (as opposed to ending their service due to a medical condition or regional political situation), an assessment of the reason for this resignation is made by a supervising staff officer and collected via [Form MS-284 Attachment D](https://files.peacecorps.gov/documents/MS-284-Attachment-D.pdf) (“Resignation Form”). + +According to a [Federal Register notice](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2000/09/05/00-22559/privacy-act-of-1974-systems-of-records), information collected through this form is stored in the system of records known as “Peace Corps Volunteers: Reasons for Resignation, PEACE CORPS/PC-7,” or "PC-7" for short. + +[Our FOIA request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23736388-2023-03-31-peace-corps-resignations-data-foia-request-faifesinger-vine) seeks all database records stored within the PC-7 system (as well as all analogous resignation form records stored in systems that may have preceded or succeeded PC-7), with the exception of data fields that contain personally-identifiable information. diff --git a/content/requests/public-housing-inspections.md b/content/requests/public-housing-inspections.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..050d924 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/requests/public-housing-inspections.md @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +--- +title: Public Housing Inspections +agency: Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) ▹ Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH) +date: 2022-09-23T00:00:04-04:00 +status: Appealing Constructive Denial +request_id: 22-FI-HQ-01969 +last_updated: 2023-03-20 +summary: We're requesting a HUD database that contains all the inspections of public housing properties in the US, including each property's detailed scores and deficiencies. +request_letter: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22925204-2022-09-23-hud-phaspass-foia-request +updates: +- date: 2023-03-20T15:12:00-04:00 + title: Appeal Filed Re. Constructive Denial + body: >- + On March 20, 2023, the Cornell Law School First Amendment Clinic [sent HUD a letter appealing the "constructive denial" of this request](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23718313-2023-03-20-appeal-re-foia-22-fi-hq-01969), based on the agency's undue delays. "This appeal is necessary because HUD has not issued a determination within either 20 working days of receipt of the Request or the 10-working-day maximum extension provided for under 5 U.S.C. § 552(a)(6)(B)(i). [...] HUD has not yet issued any determination of whether it will grant the Request. Neither has HUD plausibly set forth any 'unusual circumstances' that would have justified a ten-working-day extension under 5 U.S.C. § 552(a)(6)(B)(i), much less any 'exceptional circumstances' under which a court may allow HUD additional time to complete its review under 5 U.S.C. § 552(a)(6)(C)(i)." HUD has assigned the appeal tracking number 23-A-HQ-00026. +- date: 2022-09-29T17:17:00-04:00 + title: Request Acknowledged + body: >- + On September 29, 2022, HUD [emailed an acknowledgment letter 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23114626-2022-09-29-22-01969-acknowledgment-and-initial-fee-letter) regarding this request. The letter notes: "The Department is in the process of making a determination on fees. Once we receive a search back from the program area, we will inform you of the fee waiver decision." + +--- + +Among its many responsibilities, the Department of Housing and Urban Development oversees public housing in the United States. Although most logistics are handled by the nation's thousands of local [public housing authorities](https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/public_indian_housing/pha/contacts), HUD's [Real Estate Assessment Center](https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/public_indian_housing/reac) coordinates the [physical inspections of all public housing properties](https://www.hud.gov/topics/REAC_Inspections/). + +These inspections [aim to assess](https://www.hud.gov/topics/REAC_Inspections/residents) whether the properties are "decent, safe, and sanitary." They are supposed to be conducted by professional, independent inspectors every 1-3 years (with lower-performing properties inspected more often than higher-scoring properties) and are distinct from the routine inspections a building manager or local government might conduct. Inspectors [examine](https://www.hud.gov/sites/documents/appendix2-finaldictionary.pdf) the property site, building exteriors, building systems (e.g., heating system, elevators), common areas, and a selection of housing units. A list of the most common deficiencies can be found [here](https://apps.hud.gov/offices/reac/products/pass/top20.pdf). + +The results of every inspection are collected via a tool called RAPID and fed into the agency's Physical Assessment Subsystem Server. [Per HUD](https://www.hud.gov/sites/documents/rapid4.0userguide.pdf): + +> RAPID is a tool utilized by inspectors to record & process inspection data. The software downloads Inspection Data from the server, record/update Inspection Profile, Property Profile, Participants Profile, Certificates, Building Profile and records observations in the Building System, Building Exteriors, Common Areas and Units. Once all inspectable areas are completed, users can upload the completed inspection to the Physical Assessment Subsystem Server to be process[ed], reviewed, scored and released to Multifamily or PHAS. + +Unfortunately, HUD releases very limited information about the results of the inspections — [only top-level scores](https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/pis.html), as far as we can tell. But public housing residents and other members of the public deserve to know much more. + +[Our FOIA request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22925204-2022-09-23-hud-phaspass-foia-request) to HUD seeks all database records in the Physical Assessment Subsystem (excluding data fields containing personally identifying information), plus all relevant database documentation. diff --git a/content/requests/radiation-exposure-compensation.md b/content/requests/radiation-exposure-compensation.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..855b1b3 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/requests/radiation-exposure-compensation.md @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +--- +title: Radiation Exposure Compensation Claims +agency: Department of Justice (DOJ) ▹ Civil Division +date: 2022-09-23T00:00:02-04:00 +request_id: 145-FOI-18864 +status: Acknowledged +last_updated: 2024-09-12 +summary: We're requesting data on all Radiation Exposure Compensation Act claims filed, as well as the government's handling of those claims. +request_letter: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22925201-2022-09-23-dojciv-reca-foia-request +updates: +- date: 2024-09-12T12:24:00-04:00 + title: Estimated Completion Date Updated (Late 2025) + body: >- + On September 12, 2024, in response to a Data Liberation Project request for an updated timeline, the Civil Division emailed: "[…] We are working diligently through our backlog. We are currently tackling requests from mid-2021. It could still take an additional year on your request. A few months ago, we brought on additional staff in an effort to tackle our backlog." +- date: 2023-03-09T15:15:00-05:00 + title: Estimated Completion Date Provided (March 2024) + body: >- + On March 9, 2023, in response to the DLP's emailed request for a estimated completion date, the Civil Division wrote, "Due to our current backlog, we anticipate completion of your request by March 2024. Although we have provided a timeframe for completing your request, it is possible that your request can be completed prior to that date." +- date: 2022-09-30T10:43:00-04:00 + title: Request Informally Acknowledged + body: >- + On September 30, 2022, in response to a status inquiry, the Civil Division confirmed via email that it has received this request, and that "[a]n acknowledgment letter will follow shortly." +- date: 2022-10-05T16:02:00-04:00 + title: Request Acknowledged, Placed on "Complex Track" + body: >- + On October 5, 2022, the DOJ's Civil Division [emailed an acknowledgment letter 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23126616-2022-10-05-145-foi-18864-acknowledgment-letter) regarding this request, which has been assigned to the "complex" processing track. "The records you seek require a search in another Office in the Division; therefore, your request presents 'unusual circumstances' under the FOIA," according to the letter. The agency has agreed to classify the Data Liberation Project as a "representative of the news media," which means the request will not incur search fees. It has not, however, "yet made a decision on your request for a [full] fee waiver." + +--- + +The [Radiation Exposure Compensation Act](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_Exposure_Compensation_Act), passed by Congress in 1990 and amended several times since, "provides one-time benefit payments to persons who may have developed cancer or other specified diseases after being exposed to radiation from atomic weapons testing or uranium mining, milling, or transporting," according to a [helpful explainer from the Congressional Research Service](https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R43956/14). + +The Department of Justice's Civil Division [administers the claims process](https://www.justice.gov/civil/common/reca). As of September 2022, the agency [has received](https://www.justice.gov/civil/awards-date-09192022) more than 53,000 claims. It has approved more than more than 39,000 of them, awarding more than $2.5 billion in compensation. More than 13,000 claims have been denied. But very little information is publicly available on claimants’ specific illnesses and/or injuries, counties of exposure, employers, reasons for claim denial, or many other aspects of the information collected. Such information is essential to understanding the enduring effects of radiation on the US population and the functioning of this government program. + +[Our FOIA request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22925201-2022-09-23-dojciv-reca-foia-request) seeks all database records collected through the program's five claim forms (excluding personally-identifiable information), as well as case-adjudication records from the Civil Division's case-tracking system. The latter is referenced in several Government Accountability Office reports, including in a [2007 report on the compensation program's status](https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-07-1037r): + +> To provide updated information on the claims adjudication process, we interviewed RECP officials, obtained responses to our written inquiries, and obtained RECA-related case information for fiscal years 1992 through 2007 (as of June 30) from DOJ’s Civil Division’s case histories database. [...] We also interviewed officials in the Civil Division’s Office of Management Information (OMI), the office that maintains the database, and [Radiation Exposure Compensation Program], the office that uses information contained in the database, to obtain updated information about the database. + +Our request also seeks all relevant database documentation, to aid with the proper interpretation of the records. diff --git a/content/requests/ssvf-satisfaction-surveys.md b/content/requests/ssvf-satisfaction-surveys.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5731dc3 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/requests/ssvf-satisfaction-surveys.md @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +--- +title: SSVF Satisfaction Surveys +agency: Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) +date: 2022-10-27T00:00:00-04:00 +status: Liberated +status_link: "/datasets/va-ssvf-survey-data" +request_id: 23-00617-F +last_updated: 2023-08-17 +summary: We're requesting data from the satisfaction surveys that providers in the VA's Supportive Services for Veteran Families program must send to recently-exited participants. +request_letter: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23257794-2022-10-27-va-ssvf-satisfaction-survey-data-foia-request +updates: +- date: 2022-11-08T08:42:00-05:00 + title: 'Request Acknowledged, Placed on "Complex Track," Fee Waiver Denied; Appealing' + body: >- + On November 8, 2022, the VA [emailed an acknowledgment letter 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23288889-2022-11-08-23-00617-f-acknowledgment-letter). It noted that the request has been assigned to the Veterans Health Administration’s Central Office and placed on the “complex” processing track. It also denied the Data Liberation Project’s request for a fee waiver, on the grounds that “it does not contain sufficient detail to meet the public interest requirement, as you do not specify how the requested information is likely to contribute significantly to the public’s understanding of VHA’s operations or activities given the amount of information publicly available as referenced by you as well as other publicly available Supportive Services for Veterans Families (SSVF) documents such as their annual reports which does include a section on the satisfaction of Veterans with their SSVF provider.” The Data Liberation Project submitted an appeal of this decision later the same day via email. +- date: 2022-11-09T08:34:00-05:00 + title: Fee Waiver Appeal Acknowledged + body: >- + On November 9, 2022, the VA's Office of General Counsel [emailed a letter 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23291329-2022-11-09-acknowledgment-of-fee-waiver-denial-appeal-singer-vine-162878) acknowledging the Data Liberation Project's appeal of the VA's initial denial of a fee waiver for this request. The appeal has been assigned case number 162878. +- date: 2022-12-27T08:28:00-05:00 + title: Fee Waiver Appeal Granted + body: >- + On December 27, 2022, the VA's Office of General Counsel [emailed a letter 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23557285-2022-12-27-singer-vine-162878-remand-letter) granting the Data Liberation Project's fee waiver appeal, on the basis that "This office did not process your appeal of the fees within the statutory time requirements." +- date: 2023-07-21T17:01:00-04:00 + title: Records Provided + body: >- + On July 13–17, 2023, the VA [provided records to the Data Liberation Project 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23914787-2023-07-21-vha-co-full-grant-revised), consisting of three Excel documents containing survey response data, an Excel document containing a data dictionary, and various PDF reports. The Data Liberation Project began preparing the records for release. +- date: 2023-08-17T11:00:00-04:00 + title: Records Made Publicly Available + body: >- + On August 17, 2023, the DLP made the records obtained through this FOIA request [available to the public](/datasets/va-ssvf-survey-data), along with DLP-written [documentation](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1unanFEUnBDVBMK9pmpb0EVvRlpB-jtRC6gwlXSN-If4/edit). + +--- + +The Department of Veterans Affairs' [Supportive Services for Veteran Families](https://www.va.gov/homeless/ssvf/index.html) (SSVF) program [awards grants](https://www.va.gov/HOMELESS/ssvf/docs/SSVF_Program_Guide.pdf) “to selected private non-profit organizations and consumer cooperatives that will assist very low-income Veteran families residing in or transitioning to permanent housing.” + +In order “[t]o ensure that Veteran families receiving supportive services under the SSVF Program are receiving quality services, the grantee must give a VA-designated satisfaction survey to each participant within 30 days of the participant’s pending exit from the grantee’s program.” + +Those satisfaction surveys are considered part of an official "information collection," approved by the [Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs](https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/information-regulatory-affairs/) under [OMB Control Number 2900-0757](https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAViewICR?ref_nbr=202107-2900-001). [According to the VA](https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAViewDocument?ref_nbr=202107-2900-001), a contractor collects the survey data “will provide an analysis of data by grantee, along with a collated national report.” The contractor's website [also notes](https://www.mdavisco.com/practice-areas/veteran-affairs/case-study-veteran-affairs_01/) that its responsibilities include “[p]rovid[ing] data in an exportable format that allows the VA to share data with grantees and other stakeholders.” + +[Our FOIA request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23257794-2022-10-27-va-ssvf-satisfaction-survey-data-foia-request) to the VA seeks all SSVF survey data records the contractor has provided to the agency, plus all relevant database documentation. diff --git a/content/requests/student-loan-cancer-treatment-deferments.md b/content/requests/student-loan-cancer-treatment-deferments.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b722398 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/requests/student-loan-cancer-treatment-deferments.md @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +--- +title: Student Loan Cancer Treatment Deferments +agency: Department of Education ▹ Federal Student Aid (FSA) +date: 2023-04-27T00:00:00-04:00 +status: “No Records” Response +request_id: 23-01639-F +last_updated: 2023-10-11 +summary: We're requesting data on cancer treatment deferment requests by borrowers of student loans. +request_letter: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23790363-2023-04-27-edfsa-cancer-treatment-deferment-data-foia-request-singer-vinewilder +updates: +- date: 2023-10-11T11:38:00-05:00 + title: “No Records” Response + body: >- + On October 11, 2023, the Department of Education emailed its [initial response 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24026643-2023-10-11-2-23-01639-f-final-no-records). “After a thorough search, no responsive records were located,” according to the letter. “Cancer treatment deferment applications are not received by FSA systems. While FSA typically receives data from the servicers about those borrowers who are in an approved cancer related deferment, no borrowers have been in a cancer related deferment since March 2020, because all borrowers are placed into the COVID forbearance.” +- date: 2023-05-15T16:11:00-04:00 + title: Fee Waiver Appeal Successful, Waiver Granted + body: >- + On May 15, 2023, the Department of Education emailed [a letter 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23813706-2023-05-15-23-00029-a-singer-vine_final_dom-signed) granting the Data Liberation Project a fee waiver for this request, agreeing with the DLP's May 11 appeal and overturning the agency's initial fee waiver denial. +- date: 2023-05-11T16:45:00-04:00 + title: Fee Waiver Denial Appealed, Appeal Acknowledged + body: >- + On May 11, 2023, the Data Liberation Project wrote an email appealing the April 28 fee waiver denial. On the same day, the Department of Education emailed [a letter 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23810900-2023-05-11-appeal-acknowledgement-letter) acknowledging the appeal. +- date: 2023-04-28T10:08:00-04:00 + title: Request Acknowledged, Fee Waiver Denied + body: >- + On April 28, 2023, the Department of Education acknowledged this request and emailed [a letter 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23810902-2023-04-28-fee-waiver-denied-template) denying the Data Liberation Project's request for a fee waiver, on the grounds that "you have failed to provide sufficient information to demonstrate your entitlement to a waiver of processing fees. More specifically, justification has not been provided to explain how the requested records would contribute significant information to the public’s understanding of the Department’s operations. You have also not provided any evidence demonstrating public interest in the documents." + +--- + +Department of Education’s [Cancer Treatment Deferment Request form](https://fsapartners.ed.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/2019-09/CancerTreatmentDefermentRequest.pdf) (OMB No. 1845-0154) allows student loan borrowers to request “deferment on [their] eligible loans and forbearance on [their] ineligible loans during cancer treatment and for 6 months after.” + +[Spreadsheets published by the Department of Education](https://studentaid.gov/data-center/student/portfolio) suggest that its Direct Loan and Federal Family Education Loan portfolios each have loans under cancer treatment deferment for fewer than 5,000 borrowers. The precise numbers are not possible to discern, however, due to the spreadsheets appearing to round to the nearest 10,000; the true values could be anywhere between 0 and 4,999. + +Even if those spreadsheets did contain precise numbers, they would lack many details of public interest, such as the number of borrowers/loans denied the deferrals, the amounts and types of loans for denied and approved deferrals, and the geographic distribution of deferral requestors. + +[Our FOIA request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23790363-2023-04-27-edfsa-cancer-treatment-deferment-data-foia-request-singer-vinewilder) to the Department of Education seeks database records referring to submissions of the deferment request form, excluding personally-identifiable information but including the Department's actions in response to the requests. diff --git a/content/requests/student-loan-data-documentation.md b/content/requests/student-loan-data-documentation.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6c1d63e --- /dev/null +++ b/content/requests/student-loan-data-documentation.md @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +--- +title: Student Loan Data Documentation +agency: Department of Education ▹ Federal Student Aid (FSA) +date: 2022-09-23T00:00:01-04:00 +request_id: 22-03723-F +status: Acknowledged +last_updated: 2022-10-31 +summary: We're requesting database documentation for several major Department of Education systems that track student loans. +request_letter: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22925203-2022-09-23-edfsa-nsldsedmapscsbcod-documentation-foia-request +updates: +- date: 2022-09-29T13:44:00-04:00 + title: Request Acknowledged, Fee Waiver Granted + body: >- + On September 29, 2022, the Department of Education [emailed an acknowledgment letter 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23110090-2022-09-29-22-03723-f-acknowledgment-and-fee-waiver-letter) regarding this request and has granted the Data Liberation Project a fee waiver: "You have asked for a waiver of all fees, including duplication fees, associated with processing your request based on your requester category as News Media requester. Based on the information you submitted for a fee waiver, that request is granted." +- date: 2022-10-31T08:21:00-04:00 + title: 20-Day Notification + body: >- + On October 31, 2022, the Department of Education [emailed a 20-day-notification letter 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23245709-2022-10-31-20-day-notification) regarding this request, noting that “we are unable to provide an estimated completion date, but intend to provide records on a rolling basis as they become available.” + +--- + +The Department of Education recently published "[system of records notices](https://www2.ed.gov/notices/ed-pia.html)" relating to four key databases that track information about student loans: + +- [National Student Loan Data System (`NSLDS`)](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/09/22/2022-20682/privacy-act-of-1974-system-of-records) +- [Common Origination and Disbursement (`COD`) System](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/09/13/2022-19888/privacy-act-of-1974-system-of-records) +- [Common Services for Borrowers (`CSB`)](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/09/13/2022-19887/privacy-act-of-1974-system-of-records) +- [Enterprise Data Management and Analytics Platform Services (`EDMAPS`)](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/09/13/2022-19886/privacy-act-of-1974-system-of-records) + +[Our FOIA request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22925203-2022-09-23-edfsa-nsldsedmapscsbcod-documentation-foia-request) seeks all records that *document* these systems, such as database diagrams and user guides. This differs from the other requests in our initial batch of FOIAs, which also seek the database contents themselves. Ultimately, we'd like to file requests for specific student loan data, but these systems are so sprawling that at first we're just seeking to better understand what's possible. + +We also hope that these documents will shed light on important technical aspects of how the government undertakes its student loan operations and oversight. diff --git a/content/requests/unaccompanied-children-oversight-records.md b/content/requests/unaccompanied-children-oversight-records.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..aaecb7d --- /dev/null +++ b/content/requests/unaccompanied-children-oversight-records.md @@ -0,0 +1,54 @@ +--- +title: "Unaccompanied Children: Oversight Records" +agency: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ▹ Administration for Children and Families (ACF) +date: 2022-10-28T00:00:00-04:00 +status: Liberated, with caveats +status_link: "/datasets/unaccompanied-children-oversight-records" +request_id: 23-F-0028 +last_updated: 2023-10-12 +summary: We're requesting Office of Refugee Resettlement records relating to the care of unaccompanied children. +request_letter: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23258062-2022-10-28-hhsacforr-uc-incident-and-site-compliance-foia-request +updates: +- date: 2023-10-12T09:15:00-04:00 + title: Records Published + body: >- + On October 12, 2023, the Data Liberation Project [published the records received](https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/unaccompanied-children-oversight-records) through this request, along with [documentation](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ch1_yS5bD5F7iyJakLFX7UAZMj0U9X1Dh4mNDMA9-UE/edit) and a note about the DLP's concerns about the records' completeness. +- date: 2023-09-07T13:15:00-04:00 + title: Records Provided, DLP Processing + body: >- + On September 7, 2023, ACF completed its provision of the records requested (per the narrowed scope), in the form of a series of spreadsheets, each representing a table in the UC Portal. The Data Liberation Project is examining, documenting, and processing the records for public release. +- date: 2023-03-29T08:46:00-04:00 + title: Scope of Request Narrowed + body: >- + Over a series of emails with ACF in early 2023, the Data Liberation Project agreed in mid-March to a narrowing of the scope of the request, focusing just on forms entered via the "UC Portal" since the portal's creation in 2014. This should include forms corresponding to [OMB 0970-0547](https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAViewICR?ref_nbr=202109-0970-014) (A-9, A-10A, A-10B, A-10C, and A-10D), but exclude forms corresponding to [OMB 0970-0564](https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAViewICR?ref_nbr=202112-0970-003) (M-1, M-3A, M-3B, M-5A, and M-5B). According to the agency, requesting the latter would "[add] a significant amount of work/burden for our entire team to pull/extract, as all these forms are not in the UC Portal or any other database, and are saved/located several places electronically, including [Office of Refugee Resettlement] resource email accounts." +- date: 2023-04-03T12:36:00-04:00 + title: Estimated Date of Completion Provided + body: >- + On April 3, 2023, ACF provided an estimated completion date of April 26, 2023. “However, as stated in the acknowledgement letter sent to you on November 11, 2022, ‘the actual processing time will depend on the complexity of your request and whether sensitive records, voluminous records, extensive search, and/or consultation with other HHS components or other executive branch agencies are involved.’“ + +--- + +The [Office of Refugee Resettlement](https://www.acf.hhs.gov/orr) (ORR), part of the [Administration for Children & Families](https://www.acf.hhs.gov/) (ACF), is [officially responsible](https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/uac-program-fact-sheet.pdf) for the care of every unaccompanied child, "defined as a child who has no lawful immigration status in the United States; has not attained 18 years of age; and, with respect to whom, there is no parent or legal guardian in the United States, or no parent or legal guardian in the United States available to provide care and physical custody." + +ORR monitors the care facilities it funds, and also requires those facilities to submit paperwork when certain types of incidents occur. + +[Our FOIA request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23258062-2022-10-28-hhsacforr-uc-incident-and-site-compliance-foia-request) to ACF seeks all records collected through ten particular forms, from two [OMB-approved](https://www.reginfo.gov/public/jsp/PRA/praDashboard.myjsp) "information collection" packages, with the exception of personally-identifiable information: + +From [OMB 0970-0547](https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAViewICR?ref_nbr=202109-0970-014): + +- __Event (Form A-9)__: "This instrument is used by ORR care provider programs to document high-level information about situations that must be reported to ORR." +- __Emergency Significant Incident Report (SIR) and Addendum (Form A-10A)__: "This instrument is used by ORR care provider programs to inform ORR of urgent situations in which there is an immediate threat to a child’s safety and well-being that require instantaneous action." +- __Significant Incident Report (SIR) and Addendum (Form A-10B)__: "This instrument is used by ORR care provider programs to inform ORR of situations that affect, but do not immediately threaten, the safety and well-being of a child." +- __Sexual Abuse Significant Incident Report (SA/SIR) and Addendum (Form A-10C)__: "This instrument is used by ORR care provider programs to inform ORR of allegations of sexual harassment, sexual abuse, and inappropriate sexual behavior that occurred while the UC was in ORR custody." +- __Program-Level Event (PLE) Report and Addendum (Form A-10D)__: "This instrument is used by ORR care provider programs to inform ORR of events that may affect the entire care provider facility, such as an active shooter or natural disaster." + + +From [OMB 0970-0564](https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAViewICR?ref_nbr=202112-0970-003) (*Please see update below re. the narrowing of this request's scope*): + +- __Corrective Action Report (Form M-1)__: "This instrument is used by ORR Monitoring Team staff (includes Federal and contractor staff), ORR Federal Field Specialists, and ORR Project Officers to document care provider non-compliance with minimum standards for the care and timely release of UC; Federal and State Laws and regulations; licensing standards; ORR policies and procedures; and child welfare standards." +- __FFS Compliance and Safety Site Visit Report (Form M-3A)__: "This instrument is used by ORR Federal Field Specialists to document site visit observations and interview responses." +- __Out-of-Network Site Visit Report (Form M-3B)__: "This instrument is used by ORR Federal Field Specialists to document site visit observations and interview responses for out-of-network providers." +- __UC Incident Review (Form M-5A)__: "This instrument is completed for allegations of sexual abuse or sexual harassment that occurred in ORR care between two children." +- __Adult Incident Review (Form M-5B)__: "This instrument is completed for allegations of sexual abuse or sexual harassment that occurred in ORR care between a child and an adult." + +The request also seeks documentation relevant to the database systems holding these records. diff --git a/content/requests/uscg-boating-accident-report-database.md b/content/requests/uscg-boating-accident-report-database.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f0fda0e --- /dev/null +++ b/content/requests/uscg-boating-accident-report-database.md @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +--- +title: Boating Accident Report Database +agency: Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ▹ US Coast Guard (USCG) +date: 2023-01-27T00:00:00-05:00 +status: Liberated +status_link: "/datasets/uscg-boating-accident-report-database/" +request_id: 2023-CGFO-00725 +last_updated: 2024-08-12 +summary: We're requesting the Coast Guard's national database of recreational boating accidents. +request_letter: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23588840-2023-01-27-dhsuscg-boating-accident-report-database-foia-request-singer-vine +updates: +- date: 2024-08-12T18:45:00-04:00 + title: Records Published + body: >- + On August 12, 2024, the Data Liberation Project [published the responsive records](/datasets/uscg-boating-accident-report-database/) and [documentation](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lk0dnACzcj3Yo6DAjZbGKf_zFYkymor5IDwNxypnZpc/edit) describing the data and providing guidance for using it. +- date: 2024-07-12T14:50:00-04:00 + title: Records Provided + body: >- + On July 12, 2024, USCG provided a set of responsive records, which the Data Liberation Project has begun reviewing. + +--- + +The US Coast Guard (USCG) maintains the Boating Accident Report Database (BARD), which serves as a central, national database of recreational boating accidents. The data come from submissions of [CG-3865](https://www.dcms.uscg.mil/forms/smdsearch4081/3865/), a form that boat operators [must file when](https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/33/173.55): + +> as a result of an occurrence that involves the vessel or its equipment: (1) A person dies; (2) A person is injured and requires medical treatment beyond first aid; (3) Damage to vessels and other property totals $2,000 or more or there is a complete loss of any vessel; (4) A person disappears from the vessel under circumstances that indicate death or injury. + +The reports (and database) include details about each accident, death, injury, and vessel involved. To learn more, see the agency's [Privacy Impact Assessment for the database](https://www.dhs.gov/publication/dhsuscgpia-011-boating-accident-report-database-bard), which provides helpful information about the data collection and contents. + +[Our FOIA request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23588840-2023-01-27-dhsuscg-boating-accident-report-database-foia-request-singer-vine) seeks full copy of the database, minus fields containing personally-identifiable information. It also seeks all relevant database documentation. + +Similar copies of the database have been previously been released via FOIA (e.g., to [NICAR](https://web.archive.org/web/20161006165257/https://www.ire.org/nicar/database-library/databases/boating-accidents/) and [MuckRock's Michael Morisy](https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/1995-2012-us-recreational-boat-accident-database-6354/)), but the Data Liberation Project is not aware of any publicly-accessible copies containing data from recent years. + +If you'd like to get a head-start understanding the data and working with it, you can [explore the data from 1995–2012](https://github.com/data-liberation-project/boating-accident-reports-1995-2012-muckrock), obtained by MuckRock and converted to CSVs by the Data Liberation Project. diff --git a/content/requests/usda-aphis-investigations-and-enforcement.md b/content/requests/usda-aphis-investigations-and-enforcement.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..00ace10 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/requests/usda-aphis-investigations-and-enforcement.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +--- +title: Animal Welfare Investigations (APHIS ITEMS) +agency: Department of Agriculture (USDA) ▹ Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) +date: 2023-11-09T00:00:00-05:00 +status: Acknowledged +request_id: 2024-APHIS-00849-F +last_updated: 2023-11-09 +summary: We’re requesting records from Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service’s Investigation Tracking and Enforcement Management System (ITEMS). +request_letter: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24149657-2023-11-09-aphis-items-database-foia-request-singer-vine + +--- + +*This request is a collaboration with Data Liberation Project volunteer Sayli Benadikar.* + +The [Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service](https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/home/) (`APHIS`) is an agency of the US Department of Agriculture. Its [Investigation Tracking and Enforcement Management System](https://www.usda.gov/sites/default/files/documents/aphis-items-pia.pdf) (`ITEMS`) “is a Web Based information system, hosted at [the National Information Technology Center], for tracking analyzing and monitoring investigation information of alleged APHIS violations from discovery through final judgment.” + +The system supports the work of APHIS’s [Investigative and Enforcement Services](https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ourfocus/business-services/ies/IES) branch, which enforces a range of laws, including the Animal Welfare Act, the Animal Health Protection Act, and Horse Protection Act. + +[Our FOIA request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24149657-2023-11-09-aphis-items-database-foia-request-singer-vine) seeks database records from `ITEMS` on closed cases, including the subjects of investigation, actions taken, dollar amounts of penalties, and other key details. The request also seeks documentation of the database. diff --git a/content/requests/usda-data-inventories.md b/content/requests/usda-data-inventories.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7883955 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/requests/usda-data-inventories.md @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +--- +title: USDA Data Inventories +agency: Department of Agriculture (USDA) +date: 2023-01-30T00:00:00-05:00 +status: Liberated +status_link: "/documents/usda-data-inventories" +request_id: 2023-DA-01942-F +last_updated: 2023-08-04 +summary: We're requesting Department of Agriculture records describing its inventories of data and "major information systems." +request_letter: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23590224-2023-01-30-usda-data-inventories-foia-request-singer-vine +updates: +- date: 2023-02-08T07:46:00-05:00 + title: Request Acknowledged + body: >- + On February 8, 2023, the USDA sent an [email 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23601706-2023-02-08-2023-osec-01942-f-foia-request-acknowledgement) acknowledging the request, and categorizing the Data Liberation Project as a “news media” requester. +- date: 2023-07-26T16:25:00-04:00 + title: Records Provided + body: >- + On July 26, 2023, the USDA emailed a [final response letter 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23894814-2023-07-26-2023-da-01942-f-final-response_x). "The [Office of the Chief Information Officer] searched for records responsive to your request between January 1, 2013 and the present. The search identified one excel spreadsheet responsive to your request. The spreadsheet is being released to you in full, with no exemptions applied." The letter also noted that the request tracking number had been changed from 2023-OSEC-01942-F to 2023-DA-01942-F "to accurately reflect the correct USDA action office." +- date: 2023-08-04T08:30:00-04:00 + title: Records Published + body: >- + On August 4, 2023, the Data Liberation Project [published the spreadsheet](https://www.data-liberation-project.org/documents/usda-data-inventories) received via this request. + +--- + +[44 U.S. Code § 3511(a)](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/44/3511) mandates that “the head of each agency shall, to the maximum extent practicable, develop and maintain a __comprehensive data inventory__ that accounts for all data assets created by, collected by, under the control or direction of, or maintained by the agency.” These comprehensive data inventories have specific requirements, are distinct from “data catalogs,” and are not restricted to public datasets. + +Another portion of federal law, [44 U.S. Code § 3505(c)](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/44/3505), requires that “[t]he head of each agency shall develop and maintain an __inventory of major information systems__ (including major national security systems) operated by or under the control of such agency.” + +[Our FOIA request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23590224-2023-01-30-usda-data-inventories-foia-request-singer-vine) to the Department of Agriculture (USDA) seeks all records that contribute to the agency's fulfillment of those two requirements. + +Notably, the USDA is listed as ones of the "contributing agencies" to an [April 2022 report underscoring the importance of agency data inventories](https://resources.data.gov/assets/documents/CDOC_Data_Inventory_Report_Final.pdf). + +Although agency does publish a listing of datasets via [https://www.usda.gov/data.json](https://web.archive.org/web/20230120022723/https://www.usda.gov/data.json), that file appears to be substantially incomplete. As evidence: Only three agencies of the USDA (Natural Resources Conservation Service, the Farm Service Agency, and Rural Development) appear to have listed more than one non-public dataset; several agencies (such as the Rural Utilities Service and Rural Housing Service) appear not to be represented even in the public datasets; and some agencies are represented by far fewer datasets than seem to be realistic (for example, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, which appears to have contributed only 3 entries to the file). + +*Note: The Data Liberation Project's initial attempt to submit this request through the USDA's FOIA portal appears to have failed; we resubmitted it February 7, 2023.* diff --git a/content/requests/usda-food-purchases.md b/content/requests/usda-food-purchases.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a9ea273 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/requests/usda-food-purchases.md @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +--- +title: USDA Food Purchases +agency: Department of Agriculture (USDA) ▹ Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) +date: 2022-11-30T00:00:00-05:00 +status: Documentation Partially Liberated +status_link: "/documents/usda-food-purchases/" +request_id: 2023-AMS-00030-F +last_updated: 2024-06-28 +summary: We're requesting the database that USDA uses to track food purchased for the National School Lunch Program and other major initiatives. +request_letter: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23329268-2022-11-30-usdaams-wbscm-foia-request-singer-vine +updates: + - date: 2024-06-28T18:14:00-04:00 + title: Second Set of Records Provided + body: >- + On June 28, 2024, the USDA [provided 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24795028-2023-ams-00030-f-second-supplemental-response) a "second supplemental response" of [757 pages of records](/datasets/usda-food-purchases/). The agency says it is reviewing additional records for disclosure. + - date: 2024-04-19T13:48:00-04:00 + title: Initial Records Provided + body: >- + On April 19, 2024, the USDA [provided 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24563484-2023-ams-00030-f-first-supplemental-response-letter) a "first supplemental response" of [356 pages of records](/datasets/usda-food-purchases/). The agency says it is reviewing additional records for disclosure. + - date: 2023-11-28T18:32:00-05:00 + title: Denial Appealed + body: >- + On November 28, 2023, the Cornell Law School First Amendment Clinic sent the USDA a [letter appealing the denial 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24178295-2023-11-28-appeal-re-ams-foia-request-2023-ams-00030-f), focusing on the withholding of the documentation records sought in the second part of the request. The appeal was acknowledged by the agency on November 29, 2023, and assigned the tracking number 2024-AMS-00001-A. + - date: 2023-09-01T13:45:00-04:00 + title: Request Denied + body: >- + On September 1, 2023, the USDA emailed a [letter fully denying access to the requested records 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23941261-2023-09-01-2023-ams-00030-f-final-response-letter). The agency argues that the first part of the request "lacks specificity", and is withholding all records sought by the second part of the request under FOIA exemptions (b)(3) and (b)(7)(E). + - date: 2022-12-20T15:48:00-05:00 + title: Request Acknowledged, Fee Waiver Granted + body: >- + On December 20, 2022, an AMS FOIA officer sent an [email acknowledging our request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23487620-2022-12-20-foia-2023-ams-00030-f-acknowledgement) and noting, "we have determined that your fee waiver request does sufficiently meet all of the criteria under the FOIA and the applicable regulations; therefore, your request for a fee waiver is approved." + +--- + +As part of its work supporting the [National School Lunch Program](https://www.fns.usda.gov/nslp), [Commodity Supplemental Food Program](https://www.fns.usda.gov/csfp/commodity-supplemental-food-program), and other major nutrition food programs, the Department of Agriculture (USDA) purchases large amounts of food and food commodities. It tracks these purchases through its [Web Based Supply Chain Management](https://www.usda.gov/topics/food-and-nutrition/web-based-supply-chain-management) system (`WBSCM`). + +"On a yearly basis, `WBSCM` directly supports the order, procurement, and delivery of over 6.5 billion pounds of American farm food commodities with a value in excess of $4 billion," according to the agency. + +A [recent Government Accountability Office report](https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-23-105179) demonstrates the public interest of `WBSCM` data, which the authors analyzed to assess USDA's efficacy providing seafood to students through the National School Lunch Program. + +[Our FOIA request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23329268-2022-11-30-usdaams-wbscm-foia-request-singer-vine) to USDA seeks all database records stored within `WBSCM`, plus all relevant database documentation. diff --git a/content/requests/usda-organic-program-enforcement.md b/content/requests/usda-organic-program-enforcement.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..be59519 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/requests/usda-organic-program-enforcement.md @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +--- +title: USDA Organic Program Enforcement +agency: Department of Agriculture (USDA) ▹ Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) +date: 2023-12-18T00:00:00-05:00 +status: Liberated +status_link: "/datasets/usda-organic-program-enforcement" +request_id: 2024-AMS-00070-F +last_updated: 2024-04-09 +summary: We’re requesting records from the National Organic Program’s enforcement database. +request_letter: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24229172-2023-12-18-ams-nop-compliance-database-foia-request-singer-vinelongman +updates: +- date: 2024-04-09T10:00:00-04:00 + title: Records Published + body: >- + On April 9, 2024, the Data Liberation Project [published the records received](/datasets/usda-organic-program-enforcement/) so far. +- date: 2024-03-12T12:38:00-04:00 + title: Interim Response Received + body: >- + On March 12, 2024, the USDA sent its [first interim response 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24536945-2024-03-12-2024-ams-00070-f-first-interim-response-letter), providing a spreadsheet that appears to list all *closed* investigations in the database. + +--- + +*This request is a collaboration with journalist [Molly Longman](https://www.molly-longman.com/).* + + +The USDA's [National Organics Program](https://www.ams.usda.gov/about-ams/programs-offices/national-organic-program) “launched the COMPLIANCE Database in March 2019," according to the department's [*Organic Oversight and Enforcement Update Summary of Activities*](https://www.ams.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media/NOPEnforcementUpdateMay2019.pdf) a couple of months later. "This new tool allows the team to better track case progress and more quickly identify patterns and relationships across complaints.” + +According to a [subsequent report](https://www.ams.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media/NOPEnforcementReport2022.pdf), the system received 850 "complaints and the inquiries" in fiscal year 2021; of those, the agency deemed it necessary to investigate 58%. (The other 42% were "actually simple questions about an operation or the organic regulations, which can be resolved quickly with educational information.") + +[Our FOIA request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24229172-2023-12-18-ams-nop-compliance-database-foia-request-singer-vinelongman) seeks a comprehensive set of complaint, investigation, and outcome records from this database, as well as documentation concerning the database's structure and interpretation. diff --git a/content/requests/usps-rural-route-evaluations.md b/content/requests/usps-rural-route-evaluations.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a1f68d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/requests/usps-rural-route-evaluations.md @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +--- +title: USPS Rural Route Evaluations +agency: United States Postal Service (USPS) +date: 2023-05-22T00:00:00-04:00 +status: Records Denied, Appeal Filed, Partly Granted +request_id: 2023-FPRO-01656 +last_updated: 2024-03-01 +summary: We're requesting data the Postal Service uses in determining compensation for rural mail carriers. +request_letter: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23820664-2023-05-22-usps-forms-4241-a-4003-data-foia-request-singer-vinegordon +updates: +- date: 2024-03-01T09:38:00-05:00 + title: Appeal Partly Granted + body: >- + On March 1, 2024, the USPS provided an [appeal determination 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24537862-2024-03-01-singer-vine-jeremy-foia-appeal-decision-2024-app-00034), upholding the agency's decision not to provide the data records requested but requiring the agency to conduct a search for records responsive to the documentation portion of the request, which "appears […] was not conducted". +- date: 2024-02-02T12:40:00-05:00 + title: Appeal Filed + body: >- + On February 2, 2024, the Data Liberation Project [submitted an appeal 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24401419-2024-02-02-appeal-of-usps-foia-case-no-2023-fpro-01656) to USPS regarding this case. The appeal has been assigned tracking number 2024-APP-00034. +- date: 2023-11-14T08:02:00-05:00 + title: Request Denied + body: >- + On November 14, 2023, USPS emailed a [letter fully denying access to the requested records 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24401418-2023-11-14-jsingervine-foia-2023-fpro-01656). The agency argues that the records are exempt under regulations permitting USPS to withhold "information of a commercial nature". +- date: 2023-05-23T09:40:00-04:00 + title: Request Acknowledged + body: >- + On May 23, 2023, USPS emailed [a letter 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23821572-2023-05-23-ro-acknowledgement-letter) acknowledging this request. + + +--- + +*This request is a collaboration with [Aaron Gordon](https://aaronwgordon.com/) of [Motherboard](https://www.vice.com/en/contributor/aaron-gordon).* + +[Our FOIA request 📄](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23820664-2023-05-22-usps-forms-4241-a-4003-data-foia-request-singer-vinegordon) to USPS seeks two related sets of database records: + +- Database records corresponding to all __PS Form 4241-A__ (“Rural Route Evaluation”) outputs generated, excluding employee names and employee IDs. Per a [2012 guide](https://knowledgebase.ruralinfo.net/shared-files/120/?Guide-for-the-PS-Form-4241A.pdf) compiled by the National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association (NRLCA), “The USPS Integrated Business Solutions Services Center (IBSSC) prints and issues PS Form 4241-A to carriers on rural routes as a result of national counts, special counts, or a change in route data initiated by the submission of PS Form 4003, Official Rural Route Description.” + +- Database records corresponding to all __PS Form 4003__ ("Official Rural Route Description") submissions. Per the [same guide cited above](https://knowledgebase.ruralinfo.net/shared-files/120/?Guide-for-the-PS-Form-4241A.pdf), this form "is utilized to submit changes to route data for reasons other than changes resulting from a mail count.” It “is submitted to adjust a route evaluation based upon changes to active boxes (centralized and regular), stops, weekly dismounts, weekly dismount distance, lock pouch allowances, extension (temporary route deviations for more than 30 days), official route re-measurements, amended counts, new routes created, adjustments for seasonal routes, the assignment of a government vehicle, etc.” + +Our request also seeks all relevant database documentation. + +We've submitted this request in the context of USPS [rolling out the Rural Route Evaluated Compensation System](https://www.vice.com/en/article/88xnbb/two-thirds-of-rural-mail-carriers-are-being-hit-with-a-massive-pay-cut-calculated-by-an-algorithm) (RRECS), which the NRLCA says would result in pay cuts for two-thirds of rural mail routes reevaluated by the system. + +Rural mail carriers [have reported](https://federalnewsnetwork.com/pay/2023/04/usps-delays-rollout-of-new-pay-system-after-data-shows-pay-cuts-for-rural-carriers/) confusion and frustration with the changes, and allege it contains substantial errors, yet USPS has shared little information publicly that would allow independent observers to evaluate the changes introduced by the system, or to compare them to historical, pre-RRECS route compensation changes. diff --git a/content/singleton/404.md b/content/singleton/404.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a166051 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/singleton/404.md @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +--- +title: Whoops! 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These datasets are inaccessible because they’ve never been made public, because they’re published in obscure formats, or because they’re published without the documentation necessary to properly interpret them. + +## How + +__Identify__: Through its own research, as well as through consultations with journalists, community groups, scholars, government-data experts, and others, the Data Liberation Project aims to identify a large number of datasets worth pursuing. + +__Obtain__: The Data Liberation Project plans to use a wide range of methods to obtain the datasets, including via [Freedom of Information Act](https://www.foia.gov/faq.html) requests, intervening in lawsuits, web-scraping, and advanced document parsing. To improve public knowledge about government data systems, the Data Liberation Project also files FOIA requests for essential metadata, such as database schemas, record layouts, data dictionaries, user guides, and glossaries. + +__Reformat__: Many datasets are delivered to journalists and the public in difficult-to-use formats. Some may follow arcane conventions or require proprietary software to access, for instance. The Data Liberation Project will convert these datasets into open formats, and restructure them so that they can be more easily examined. + +__Clean__: The Data Liberation Project will not alter the raw records it receives. But when the messiness of datasets inhibits their usefulness, the project will create secondary, “clean” versions of datasets that fix these problems. + +__Document__: Datasets are meaningless without context, and practically useless without documentation. The Data Liberation Project will gather official documentation for each dataset into a central location. It will also fill observed gaps in the documentation through its own research, interviews, and analysis. + +__Disseminate__: The Data Liberation Project will not expect reporters and other members of the public simply to stumble upon these datasets. Instead, it will reach out to the newsrooms and communities that stand to benefit most from the data. The project will host hands-on workshops, webinars, and other events to help others to understand and use the data. + + +## When + +The Data Liberation Project launched in September 2022. + +## Where + +The Data Liberation Project is based on the internet, but with a focus on the United States. If you'd like to bring the project's model to other countries or to a specific US state, [get in touch]({{< ref "/contact" >}}). + +## Who + +[As of September 2024](https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2024/sep/18/data-liberation-project-volunteer-data-science/), the Data Liberation Project is run by [MuckRock](https://www.muckrock.com/) and [Big Local News](https://biglocalnews.org/). + + +### Past staff + +- __[Jeremy Singer-Vine](https://www.jsvine.com)__, founder and former director. Jeremy launched the Data Liberation Project in September 2022 and ran it until September 2024, when he handed it over to the current leadership. Before that, from 2014 until early 2022, Jeremy served as the founding data editor for BuzzFeed News, where he [championed](https://source.opennews.org/articles/what-weve-learned-about-sharing-our-data-analysis/) the publication of [open, reproducible data analyses](https://github.com/BuzzFeedNews/everything), and contributed to a [range](https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/buzzfeed-news-and-international-consortium-investigative-journalists-washington-dc) of [award-winning](https://web.archive.org/web/20181119215446/https://magazine.org/asme/2016-national-magazine-awards) [investigations](https://www.deadlineclub.org/2020-awards/). Previously, he worked at The Wall Street Journal, where he was named a [Pulitzer Prize co-finalist for National Reporting](https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/john-emshwiller-and-jeremy-singer-vine). He also publishes [Data Is Plural](https://www.data-is-plural.com/), a weekly newsletter of useful/curious datasets. He builds and maintains [open-source software](https://github.com/jsvine/), including [`pdfplumber`](https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber), a tool for liberating data from PDFs. +- __[Mackenzie Peluso](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mackenzie-peluso/)__, from The New School, interned with the Data Liberation Project for the fall of 2023. +- __[Jake Zucker](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacob-zucker/)__, from the University of Chicago, interned with the Data Liberation Project for the summer of 2023. +- __[Anna Wilder](https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-wilder19/)__, from the University of Florida, interned with the Data Liberation Project through the [Brechner Center for Freedom of Information](https://brechner.org/) from January 2023 – April 2023. + +### Volunteers + +The Data Liberation Project is grateful for the contributions of the following volunteers and FOIA-collaborators (in alphabetical order): Sayli Benadikar, Coline Bodenreider, Arianna Brisco, Kevin Bryson, Gustav Cappaert, Kat Chua, Marc DaCosta, Marco Dalla Stella, Adrienne Damicis, Madeline Everett, Corin Faife, Todd Feathers, Rebecka Flynn, Mike Gartner, Alec Gitelman, Aaron Gordon, Forest Gregg, Rohan Jinturkar, Emily Keller-O’Donnell, Julia Kieserman, Betsy Ladyzhets, Molly Longman, David Mamaril Horowitz, Evelyn Martin, Asako Mikami, Kate Miller, Kim Nguyen, Saul Pwanson, Rob Reid, Joerg Rings, Joseph Andrew Risi, Jake J. 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    The Data Liberation Project is an initiative to identify, obtain, reformat, clean, document, publish, and disseminate government datasets of public interest.

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    Vast troves of government data are inaccessible to the people and communities who need them most. These datasets are inaccessible because they’ve never been made public, because they’re published in obscure formats, or because they’re published without the documentation necessary to properly interpret them.

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    Identify: Through its own research, as well as through consultations with journalists, community groups, scholars, government-data experts, and others, the Data Liberation Project aims to identify a large number of datasets worth pursuing.

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    Obtain: The Data Liberation Project plans to use a wide range of methods to obtain the datasets, including via Freedom of Information Act requests, intervening in lawsuits, web-scraping, and advanced document parsing. To improve public knowledge about government data systems, the Data Liberation Project also files FOIA requests for essential metadata, such as database schemas, record layouts, data dictionaries, user guides, and glossaries.

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    Reformat: Many datasets are delivered to journalists and the public in difficult-to-use formats. Some may follow arcane conventions or require proprietary software to access, for instance. The Data Liberation Project will convert these datasets into open formats, and restructure them so that they can be more easily examined.

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    Clean: The Data Liberation Project will not alter the raw records it receives. But when the messiness of datasets inhibits their usefulness, the project will create secondary, “clean” versions of datasets that fix these problems.

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    Document: Datasets are meaningless without context, and practically useless without documentation. The Data Liberation Project will gather official documentation for each dataset into a central location. It will also fill observed gaps in the documentation through its own research, interviews, and analysis.

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    Disseminate: The Data Liberation Project will not expect reporters and other members of the public simply to stumble upon these datasets. Instead, it will reach out to the newsrooms and communities that stand to benefit most from the data. The project will host hands-on workshops, webinars, and other events to help others to understand and use the data.

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    The Data Liberation Project launched in September 2022.

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    The Data Liberation Project is based on the internet, but with a focus on the United States. If you’d like to bring the project’s model to other countries or to a specific US state, get in touch.

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    Who

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    As of September 2024, the Data Liberation Project is run by MuckRock and Big Local News.

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    The Data Liberation Project is grateful for the contributions of the following volunteers and FOIA-collaborators (in alphabetical order): Sayli Benadikar, Coline Bodenreider, Arianna Brisco, Kevin Bryson, Gustav Cappaert, Kat Chua, Marc DaCosta, Marco Dalla Stella, Adrienne Damicis, Madeline Everett, Corin Faife, Todd Feathers, Rebecka Flynn, Mike Gartner, Alec Gitelman, Aaron Gordon, Forest Gregg, Rohan Jinturkar, Emily Keller-O’Donnell, Julia Kieserman, Betsy Ladyzhets, Molly Longman, David Mamaril Horowitz, Evelyn Martin, Asako Mikami, Kate Miller, Kim Nguyen, Saul Pwanson, Rob Reid, Joerg Rings, Joseph Andrew Risi, Jake J. Smith, Molly Taylor, Victoria Tran, Urvashi Uberoy, Maddy Varner, and Iris Zhong.

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    The Animal Welfare Act sets minimum standards of animal care by four main types of licensees: commercial animal dealers, exhibitors (such as zoos), research facilities, and transporters. The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) tries to make sure licensees meet those standards, and issues violation citations when they do not. 

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    The agency provides an online portal containing its inspections but, frustratingly, no option to download the full dataset. The portal’s structured data also lack important information, such as the type of inspection and the list of species inspected — information that is available only in the inspection report PDFs.

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    The Data Liberation Project collaborated with Big Local News’s Ben Welsh to fetch the 80,000+ published inspection reports, parse the PDFs, and make the records all-around more useful.

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    The deaths date from January 1, 2005 through August 9, 2024.

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    The data do not contain several of the fields we requested, as BOP’s response letter indicates (emphasis added):

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    On May 30, 2023, the Data Liberation Project filed a FOIA request for detailed tables from that system. On September 18, 2023, the agency provided a single spreadsheet in response, listing the amounts and dates of court-ordered relief and penalties in those enforcement matters.

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    Although the Data Liberation Project plans to appeal the agency’s response, we are providing the spreadsheet now, along with DLP-written documentation, so that the public can make use of it.

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    In November 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a new waiver program, called Acute Hospital Care At Home (AHCAH), aimed at “providing eligible hospitals with unprecedented regulatory flexibilities to treat eligible patients in their homes.”

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    Instead, for patients treated through the AHCAH program, “A registered nurse will evaluate each patient once daily either in person or remotely, and two in-person visits will occur daily by either registered nurses or mobile integrated health paramedics, based on the patient’s nursing plan and hospital policies,” according to November 2020 announcement.

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    This allowed hospitals to receive Medicare (and certain Medicaid) payments for such home care. Per a NEJM Catalyst article reviewing the program, “This represented the first example of payment for this level of care at home for beneficiaries with Medicare Fee-for-Service (FFS) and — in certain states — non–managed care Medicaid.” (According to CMS, “Medicare inpatient payments to a hospital will be the same as they would have been if the care was provided in a traditional inpatient setting.”)

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    The waiver program is split into two tiers: Tier 1 waivers, available to hospitals that “provided at home acute hospital services to at least 25 patients previously,” and Tier 2 waivers, provided to those that had not. The application for Tier 1 waivers is simpler, and those hospitals have to report their key AHCAH metrics only monthly, rather than weekly.

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    In order to continue participating in the program, hospitals with AHCAH waivers must submit weekly/monthly metrics (called “measures”) to CMS, indicating the number of AHCAH patients discharged from the hospital’s care, the number that died unexpectedly, and the number that required “escalation” back into a traditional hospital setting.

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    When first issued in 2020, waivers were only meant to last for the duration of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE). The PHE officially ended on May 11, 2023. The 2023 Consolidated Appropriations Act, however, extended the AHCAH program until December 31, 2024.

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    On January 27, 2023, the Data Liberation Project (DLP) — in collaboration with researcher Maddy Varner, then a journalist at The Markup — filed a FOIA request to CMS, seeking all database records representing AHCAH waiver requests received by CMS (and the agency’s processing of those requests), all AHCAH reporting measures submitted by hospitals (with the exception of patient-identifiable information), and all database documentation relevant to those records.

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    On June 26, 2023, CMS provided a response to the DLP’s FOIA request. It contained four CSV spreadsheets, corresponding to:

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    On October 2, 2023, CMS provided an updated set of records — all waiver requests and reporting measures submitted through September 14, 2023 — with several improvements:

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    To access these resources and learn essential context about them, visit our main documentation for the data.

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    The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) requires all entities it has authorized to manufacture or handle controlled substances and “listed chemicals” to inform the agency about any “theft or significant loss of any controlled substance, disposal receptacles or listed chemicals within one business day of discovery of such loss or theft.”

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    In September 2022, the Data Liberation Project (DLP) filed a Freedom of Information Act request for database records corresponding to those reports (excluding fields containing narratives or personal information), plus all relevant database documentation.

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    In May 2023, the DLP received the DEA’s response. It contained a determination letter 📄 and two spreadsheets. The two spreadsheets contain aggregate counts of theft/loss incidents, aggregated by state, business activity, type of loss, and year.

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    The agency did not provide any of the underlying report data requested, nor the documentation requested. The DLP intends to appeal this outcome but, in the meantime, still sees the spreadsheets as useful contribution to public knowledge.

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    To access the spreadsheets, reformatted versions, and additional documentation, visit this GitHub repository.

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    Since the late 1990s, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has required facilities handling “extremely hazardous substances” to submit “risk management plans” (RMPs) at least every five years, detailing the chemicals they use, the risks that usage poses, what the facility is doing to minimize accidents, and a five-year accident history. As the EPA summarizes:

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    Section 112(r) of the Clean Air Act Amendments requires EPA to publish regulations and guidance for chemical accident prevention at facilities that use certain hazardous substances. These regulations and guidance are contained in the Risk Management Program (RMP) rule. The RMP rule requires facilities that use extremely hazardous substances to develop a Risk Management Plan which:

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    These plans provide valuable information to local fire, police, and emergency response personnel to prepare for and respond to chemical emergencies in their community. Making RMPs available to the public also fosters communication and awareness to improve accident prevention and emergency response practices at the local level. 

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    The RMP rule was built upon existing industry codes and standards. It requires facilities that use listed regulated Toxic or Flammable Substances for Accidental Release Prevention to develop an RMP and submit that plan to EPA.

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    In October 2022, the Data Liberation Project (DLP) filed a Freedom of Information Act request for a copy of the EPA’s RMP database, excluding the “Off-Site Consequence Analysis” (OCA) part of the submissions, which 40 CFR Part 1400 deems non-disclosable. 

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    Since first receiving the records, the Data Liberation Project and volunteers undertook efforts to understand, document, and process the data. We are providing:

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    To learn essential context about these resources, visit our main documentation for the data.

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    The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP)’s Administrative Remedy Program “allow[s] an inmate to seek formal review of an issue relating to any aspect of his/her own confinement.” BOP tracks those complaints through SENTRY, the agency’s “primary mission support database”.

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    In October 2022, the Data Liberation Project filed a request to BOP, seeking a copy of all database records stored in SENTRY’s “Administrative Remedy System module.” Through a series of phone calls and emails, BOP indicated that the agency did not have the capacity to export the complete set of requested records, but was able to export a substantial subset of data-points for each case. On June 10, 2024, BOP provided those records to the Data Liberation Project.

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    The records provide data on 1.78 million complaint/appeal submissions filed by federal prison inmates between January 2000 and late May 2024, spanning nearly 1 million distinct cases.

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    The records indicate when each filing was received, the case number the filing pertains to, the general category of complaint, the facility where the issue occurred, case status, status update date, reasons for rejection/closure, and other details.

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    To the best of our knowledge, the Data Liberation Project’s publication of these records represents the first time that national, filing-level federal inmate complaint data have been made available to the general public.

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    To get started with the data, please consult the Data Liberation Project’s introductory documentation.

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    In February 2023, the Data Liberation Project filed a request to the Department of Health and Human Services’s Administration for Community Living (ACL), seeking a copy of all records in the agency’s  National Adult Maltreatment Reporting System (NAMRS), “the first comprehensive, national reporting system for adult protective services (APS) programs.”

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    (1) Descriptive data on state agency and practices from all states through the “Agency Component,” and

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    (2) Case-level, non-identifiable data on persons who receive an investigation by APS in response to an allegation of abuse, neglect, or exploitation through “Case Component”, or

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    (3) For states that are unable to submit a case-level file through the “Case Component,” a “Key Indicators Component” will be available for them to submit data on a smaller set of core items.

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    On April 10, 2024, ACL provided a data transfer that completed its provision of records in response to this request, including substantial portions of all components described above.

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    To get started with the records, please consult the Data Liberation Project’s introductory documentation.

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    The FBI publishes aggregated data from its National Instant Criminal Background Check System. Unfortunately, the agency only posts those records as PDFs, rather than structured data files.

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    The Data Liberation Project runs a open-source data pipeline that downloads the most detailed of these PDFs — containing monthly counts of firearm background checks run by month, state, and firearm type — and extracts their data.

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    The project was created by Jeremy Singer-Vine (now Data Liberation Project founder) while at BuzzFeed News in 2015. In 2023, BuzzFeed News shut down. In April 2024, the Data Liberation Project forked the original repository and resumed its operation.

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    The Commercial Fishing Incident Database (CFID) “is a surveillance system managed by [the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)] to collect information on fatalities and vessel disasters that occur in the US fishing industry.” The database enables the government to ask questions such as, “Where are the most hazardous fisheries?” “What are the worst problems?” “What causes fatalities in hazardous fisheries?” and “Where will prevention efforts be most effective?”

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    In January 2023, the Data Liberation Project filed a FOIA request to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) — NIOSH’s parent agency — seeking a copy of the database (minus fields containing personally-identifiable information) and all relevant database documentation.

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    In subsequent communications with the Data Liberation Project, the CDC indicated that it could not provide the database in its original structure (a series of interrelated tables) but rather as “a linked dataset (a single Excel sheet with all seven data tables already linked but without the linking identifier) that excludes PII and incorporates strategies for reducing disclosure risk, such as the removal, redaction, or modification of variables[.]” The Data Liberation Project agreed to modify the scope of its request to allow for that.

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    On May 17, 2024, the CDC provided several data and documentation files in response to the request:

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    Unfortunately, some characteristics are represented only very coarsely. For example, incident dates are not provided, only year ranges: 2000-2002, 2003-2007, 2008-2012, 2013-2017, or 2018-2022. Similarly, incident locations are provided only as Pacific/Atlantic and the number of miles from shore.

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    If a Peace Corps volunteer chooses to resign from their position (as opposed to ending their service due to a medical condition or regional political situation), an assessment of the reason for this resignation is made by a supervising staff officer and collected via Form MS-284 Attachment D (“Resignation Form”).

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    Our FOIA request sought all database records collected through that form. At first, the Peace Corps sent a document with few details and all of the numbers redacted. The Data Liberation Project and co-requestor Corin Faife successfully appealed that initial response; upon granting the appeal, the agency provided a spreadsheet listing the number of resigned Peace Corps volunteers by post and resignation reasons through July 2023.

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    Each row in the spreadsheet indicates:

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    ⚠️ Note: The Peace Corps says it cannot vouch for the accuracy of the data. Footnotes in the initial document provided by the agency say:

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    • Data on resignation reason is best guess from Peace Corps overseas staff.

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    • Data is not used for agency analysis, as it is deemed not trustworthy.

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    • Data is collected through “Attachment D” – which is currently being removed from Volunteer exit interview.

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    • Data collected from “Attachment D”(data that was requested) is currently in the process of being removed from database.

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    • Any analysis done on this data is not an accurate reflection of Volunteer resignation reasons.

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    And the appeal-granting letter notes, “I reiterate that Peace Corps has not confirmed the accuracy of the data in the database as described in the Footnotes of the original document.”

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    Federal law requires transportation-related spills, explosions, and other safety-endangering incidents involving hazardous materials to be reported to the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA).

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    Specifically, “each person in physical possession of a hazardous material at the time that any of [certain types of incidents] occurs during transportation (including loading, unloading, and temporary storage) must submit a Hazardous Materials Incident Report on DOT Form F 5800.1 […] within 30 days of discovery of the incident”.

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    These “5800.1” forms include details about the location of the incident, mode of transportation, parties involved, hazardous materials involved, causes of failure, fatalities, injuries, financial cost, and more.

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    PHSMA publishes the submitted reports through an online portal. That portal, however, is brittle and does not provide a straightforward mechanism to download the full set of submitted reports.

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    The Data Liberation Project has fetched, and is updating daily, all reports available through that portal, and making them available in bulk for further analysis.

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https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/bop-federal-inmate-deaths/ + Wed, 18 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/bop-federal-inmate-deaths/ + A spreadsheet of each federal inmate death since 2005, including demographic and cause-of-death information. + + + + Boating Accident Report Database + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/uscg-boating-accident-report-database/ + Mon, 12 Aug 2024 20:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/uscg-boating-accident-report-database/ + Data on 58,430 boating accidents that occurred in 2009–2023 and were reported to state authorities. + + + + Federal Inmate Complaints + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/federal-inmate-complaints/ + Tue, 09 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/federal-inmate-complaints/ + Data on 1.78 million complaint/appeal submissions filed by federal prison inmates between January 2000 and late May 2024, spanning nearly 1 million distinct cases. + + + + Commercial Fishing Incident Database + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/niosh-commercial-fishing-incident-database/ + Mon, 08 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/niosh-commercial-fishing-incident-database/ + A national database of “fatalities and vessel disasters that occur in the US fishing industry.” + + + + National Adult Maltreatment Reporting System + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/national-adult-maltreatment-reporting-system/ + Tue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/national-adult-maltreatment-reporting-system/ + Agency- and case-level data from “the first comprehensive, national reporting system for adult protective services programs.” + + + + Firearm Background Check Counts + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/nics-firearm-background-checks/ + Sun, 14 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/nics-firearm-background-checks/ + Monthly counts of firearm background checks run by the FBI by month, state, and firearm type. + + + + USDA Organic Program Enforcement + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/usda-organic-program-enforcement/ + Tue, 09 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/usda-organic-program-enforcement/ + Outcomes of investigations spurred by complaints submitted to the USDA&rsquo;s National Organic Program. + + + + Water Use Inventory Records + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/usgs-water-use-inventory/ + Mon, 08 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/usgs-water-use-inventory/ + Site-level records from the USGS&rsquo;s water use inventory, indicating volumes of and types of water conveyed in a given year. + + + + TSA Complaint Counts + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/tsa-complaint-counts/ + Wed, 21 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0500 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/tsa-complaint-counts/ + Monthly counts of Transportation Security Administration traveler complaints by airport, category, and subcategory. + + + + Unaccompanied Child Incident Reports + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/unaccompanied-children-oversight-records/ + Thu, 12 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/unaccompanied-children-oversight-records/ + Incident reports submitted by government-funded facilities caring for unaccompanied immigrant children. + + + + CFPB Enforcement Relief & Penalties + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/cfpb-enforcement-matters/ + Wed, 11 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/cfpb-enforcement-matters/ + Amounts and dates of court-ordered relief and penalties in Consumer Financial Protection Bureau enforcement matters. + + + + Peace Corps Resignation Counts + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/peace-corps-resignations/ + Tue, 10 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/peace-corps-resignations/ + Counts of resigned Peace Corps volunteers by post and resignation reasons. + + + + Veterans Affairs SSVF Survey Data + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/va-ssvf-survey-data/ + Thu, 17 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/va-ssvf-survey-data/ + Data and reports from satisfaction surveys evaluating VA Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) program providers. + + + + “Acute Hospital Care at Home” Data + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/cms-acute-hospital-care-at-home/ + Tue, 25 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/cms-acute-hospital-care-at-home/ + Waiver applications and weekly/monthly reporting metrics from hospitals participating in the Acute Hospital Care at Home program. + + + + Theft/Loss of Controlled Substances + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/dea-theft-and-loss-counts/ + Tue, 16 May 2023 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/dea-theft-and-loss-counts/ + Counts and quantities of controlled substance and regulated chemical thefts/losses reported to the DEA, by state, business activity, and loss type, and year. + + + + Hazmat Transportation Incident Reports + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/phmsa-hazmat-incident-reports/ + Tue, 28 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0500 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/phmsa-hazmat-incident-reports/ + Decades of hazardous material transportation incidents reported to the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration via Form <code>5800.1</code>. + + + + EPA Risk Management Program Database + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/epa-risk-management-program-database/ + Tue, 21 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0500 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/epa-risk-management-program-database/ + Data from the Risk Management Plans submitted by US facilities handling certain hazardous substances. + + + + APHIS Inspection Reports + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/aphis-inspection-reports/ + Mon, 20 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0500 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/aphis-inspection-reports/ + Data on Animal Welfare Act inspections of commercial animal dealers, exhibitors (such as zoos), research facilities, and transporters. + + + + diff --git a/public/datasets/tsa-complaint-counts/index.html b/public/datasets/tsa-complaint-counts/index.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..010d715 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/datasets/tsa-complaint-counts/index.html @@ -0,0 +1,123 @@ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + The Data Liberation Project — TSA Complaint Counts + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
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    In its FOIA Electronic Reading Room, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) publishes semi-regular reports on the monthly numbers of traveler complaints by airport, category, and subcategory.

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    Unfortunately, they post these data only as PDFs (e.g.), rather than as machine-readable data files, posing substantial barriers to further analysis.

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    It’s an approach to “transparency” that leaves much to be desired. So the Data Liberation Project has built a data pipeline that converts those PDFs into CSV files. Now you can access the complaint counts as tidy, standardized, machine-readable data.

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    The records cover complaints at 440+ airports going back to January 2015; the Data Liberation Project aims to keep the pipeline and dataset updated.

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    The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), part of the Administration for Children & Families (ACF), is officially responsible for the care of every unaccompanied child, “defined as a child who has no lawful immigration status in the United States; has not attained 18 years of age; and, with respect to whom, there is no parent or legal guardian in the United States, or no parent or legal guardian in the United States available to provide care and physical custody.”

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    ORR-funded facilities provide “care and custody for [unaccompanied children] until they can be safely released to a sponsor, repatriated to their home country, or obtain legal status. […] Services provided at care provider facilities include, but are not limited to, education, recreation, vocational training, acculturation, nutrition, medical, mental health, legal, and case management.”

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    ORR monitors the care facilities it funds, and it imposes a range of requirements, including that facilities submit reports when certain types of incidents occur.

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    Through a FOIA request to ACF, the Data Liberation Project has received 20 database tables with information about these incidents and reports. Unfortunately, the Data Liberation Project has some concerns about the completeness of the records — most notably, a core table seems to be missing.

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    In communications with ACF, the agency appears to be aware of the situation and willing to rectify it. But because the Data Liberation Project doesn’t know how long it will take to receive the missing records, and because some portions of the records may still be useful to the public in the meantime, we are releasing what we have so far. To familiarize yourself with the records and their caveats, please consult the Data Liberation Project’s introductory documentation for this data.

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    The US Coast Guard (USCG) maintains the Boating Accident Report Database (BARD), which serves as a central, national database of recreational boating accidents. The data come from submissions of CG-3865, a form that boat operators must file to state authorities when, “as a result of an occurrence that involves the vessel or its equipment”:

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    (3) Damage to vessels and other property totals $2,000 or more or there is a complete loss of any vessel;

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    (4) A person disappears from the vessel under circumstances that indicate death or injury.

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    (Note: The $2,000 threshold was $500 prior to July 2, 2001.)

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    The reports (and database) include details about each accident, vessel, death, and injury involved.

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    In January 2023, the Data Liberation Project (DLP) filed a Freedom of Information Act request 📄 seeking a full copy of the database, minus fields containing personally-identifiable information. The request also sought all relevant database documentation.

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    In April 2024, a representative of USCG contacted the DLP to ask whether we would consider narrowing our request so that it began with the year 2009: “Releasable data for years 2009-2022 is available for release, meaning records have been reviewed extensively to eliminate personally identifiable information and have been cleared for release by the State agencies that submitted them. However, years prior to 2009 would need to be reviewed for releasability, which would take a considerable amount of time.” The DLP agreed, and also agreed to wait for the release until the 2023 records were available.

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    On July 12, 2024, the USCG provided the requested records, which the Data Liberation Project is making fully available to the public:

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    In total, the records describe:

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    To get started with the data, please consult the Data Liberation Project’s introductory documentation.

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    The US Department of Agriculture’s National Organic Program “launched the COMPLIANCE Database in March 2019," according to an agency report. The tool allows the organization “to better track case progress and more quickly identify patterns and relationships across complaints.”

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    In December 2023, we filed a FOIA request seeking a comprehensive set of complaint, investigation, and outcome records from this database, as well as documentation concerning the database’s structure and interpretation.

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    On March 12, 2024, the agency sent its first interim response 📄, providing a spreadsheet that appears to list all closed investigations in the database.

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    The spreadsheet contains 1,501 entries. Its twelve columns indicate the following information for each case:

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    “[The USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service] will continue to process the remainder of your request and will forward any responsive records promptly upon completion of review,” according to the agency’s interim response letter.

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    The Department of the Interior’s US Geological Survey (USGS) is in charge of maintaining a “comprehensive national water use inventory.” In March 2023, the Data Liberation Project co-filed a FOIA request to USGS, seeking its most detailed data records from that inventory.

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    In conversations with the FOIA team at USGS, the Data Liberation Project agreed to narrow the request’s focus to records that existed as structured data — forgoing records that the agency only had in PDF, Word, or other non-structured formats.

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    On March 6, 2024, USGS provided a set of responsive records:

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    The conveyance spreadsheets contain 823,552 rows in total, each representing a measured or estimated volume of water conveyed between two “sites” in a given year.

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    Unfortunately, USGS has redacted the majority of site identifiers (as well as many other details) under FOIA exemption 7. The Data Liberation Project’s research also has also identified issues with incompleteness and duplication in the records.

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    Even so, we believe that the records are of substantial public value, and appear to be the first time national, site-level conveyance data has been publicly available.

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    To get started with the records, please consult the Data Liberation Project’s introductory documentation.

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    The US Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) program awards grants to “selected private non-profit organizations and consumer cooperatives that will assist very low-income Veteran families residing in or transitioning to permanent housing.” 

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    According to the SSVF’s fiscal year 2021 annual report, the program “has served a cumulative total of 732,042 Veterans” and distributes hundreds of millions of dollars per year.

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    As part of the regulations governing the program, rule 38 CFR 62.36(c)(2) mandates that SSVF grantees “must provide each participant with a satisfaction survey […] within 30 days of such participant’s pending exit from the grantee’s program.” Those surveys, which (at least in recent years) have been conducted by a contractor, can be completed online or over the phone. They include a series of questions about the services the participant received, and their degree of satisfaction with those services.

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    In October 2022, the Data Liberation Project filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the VA for data records corresponding to those satisfaction surveys. In July 2023, the department provided a set of Excel files with anonymized response-level data for surveys conducted March 2016 through September 2022 (with the exception of October 2020 – September 2021, i.e., fiscal year 20211), corresponding to nearly 40,000 survey responses. The VA also provided a series of PDF reports containing analyses of the survey responses. The reports go back to 2015, although the content and formatting vary by year.

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    The Data Liberation Project is sharing all of those records with the public. You can access them via Google Drive and/or via GitHub.

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    To learn more, visit our main documentation for the data.

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    One of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s key roles is to investigate and enforce potential violations of federal consumer finance laws. To track and organize those efforts, the CFPB uses an “enforcement matter management system” called ENForce.

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    In response to our FOIA request for documentation of such systems, the CFPB sent the Data Liberation Project a six-page document that describes some of ENForce’s structure.

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    On March 27, 2023, the Data Liberation Project (in collaboration with Marc DaCosta) sent the Department of Labor a request for two categories of records:

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    On June 15, 2023, the DOL sent us a set of files, accompanied by a determination letter regarding the request.

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    In all, after un-zipping the files, there appear to be 425 documents. By format: 236 Microsoft Word files, 99 Excel files, 70 PDF files, 13 .msg files, and 7 .rtf files. (Note: Some of the files are duplicates or near-duplicates of one another.)

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    The Data Liberation Project is making the files available to all. You can access them in two ways:

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    To help organize the files, the Data Liberation Project has also created a spreadsheet listing them, indicating their:

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    The most recent files appear to have been created in late 2019 / early 2020. “DOL has not created any new files plans or EIS listings since those dates,” according to the Department of Labor’s FOIA coordinator for this request, in follow-up correspondence with the Data Liberation Project.

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    Most of the files are specific to a subagency (such as the Wage and Hour Division), sub-subagency, or field office. A few files, however, appear to be DOL-wide. The two most notable are these:

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    On February 23, 2023, the EEOC provided the “first interim production” of records responsive to this request. It consists of one PDF, which appears to be an entity relationship diagram listing database tables, column names, and the relationships between them.

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    On October 31, 2023, the EEOC provided a “second interim production” of records responsive to this request. It consists of one 650-page PDF that appears be an Oracle database schema for EEOC’s IMS database; it lists the names, columns, and column constraints of 600+ tables. Based on the table names referenced, it seems to describe a different database system than the records provided in the first interim production.

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    In September 2022, the Data Liberation Project sent the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) a request for data from — and documentation of — the systems used to track the “direct housing” assistance the agency provides people affected by major disasters.

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    On April 3, 2024, FEMA provided an “interim response” containing seven documents. Five of the documents, spanning 139 pages, were not redacted:

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    The Data Liberation Project has uploaded that file, which is an Excel spreadsheet named “Prod Schema.xlsx”. Although FMCS did not provide any context for the file, it appears to be the database schema for the agency’s case management system, or at least a portion of it. It’s fairly detailed, with 5,900+ columns across 100+ tables.

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    When oil spills occur in the US and its waters, he US Coast Guard’s National Pollution Funds Center (NPFC) “provides funding for quick response, compensates claimants for cleanup costs and damages, and takes action to recover costs from responsible parties.”

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    In November 2022, the Data Liberation Project filed a FOIA request 📄 to the Coast Guard sought all records collected through several types of NPFC forms and workbooks since January 2000. Through conversations with the Coast Guard, the Data Liberation Project agreed to narrow the request to more recent years — those for which the records are primarily digital.

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    The Coast Guard has begun providing the responsive records in 150-page increments. The first tranche of records was provided on July 30, 2024. To access the documents and the Data Liberation Project’s descriptions of them, click here.

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    On January 30, 2023, the Data Liberation Project sent the Department of Agriculture a request for two categories of records:

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    On July 26, 2023, the USDA emailed its response 📄: “The [Office of the Chief Information Officer] searched for records responsive to your request between January 1, 2013 and the present. The search identified one excel spreadsheet responsive to your request. The spreadsheet is being released to you in full, with no exemptions applied.”

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    NameElectronic Disqualified Recipient System Application (EDRS)
    AliasesE-DRS
    Lifecycle statusActive
    Owning AgencyFNS
    Sub-Agency(None)
    Workflow Contact[email address]
    DescriptionThe eDRS application provides authorized users with a single, user friendly and web based interface for accessing the most up to date and comprehensive data on disqualified Food Stamp recipients. This system centralizes and improves upon the earlier DRS
    Application TypeServer-based Application
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    Business Point of Contact Name[name]
    Business POC Email Address[email address]
    Internal: Actual decommission date(None)
    Internal: Expected decommission date2030-10-09 00:00:00
    Internal: Live date2018-08-09 00:00:00
    Internal: Expected decommission reasonExpected replacement/obsolescence
    Internal: In Development From(None)
    Internal: Phase Out From2030-09-11 00:00:00
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    Authority to Operate (ATO) effective date2020-08-11 00:00:00
    Authority to Operate (ATO) expiration date2023-08-11 00:00:00
    Authority to Operate (ATO) statusApproved
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    In November 2022, the Data Liberation Project sent the Department of Agriculture a request for data from — and documentation of — the agency’s Web Based Supply Chain Management System (WBSCM), which it uses for coordinating the purchase and distribution of federal food and commodity orders.

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    In conversations with the Data Liberation Project, the agency said it was unable to export the data records requested; the Data Liberation Project agreed to re-focus the request on the documentation records. The agency initially refused to provide those records, citing FOIA exemptions 3 and 7(E). After the Data Liberation Project appealed this decision (with the assistance of the Cornell Law School First Amendment Clinic), the USDA has begun to provide the records.

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    On April 19, 2024, the USDA provided a “first supplemental response” of 356 pages of records:

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    • Part 2_Redacted.pdf (110 pages): Materials from various WBSCM user trainings dated November 2019, October 2020, November 2021, July 2022, March 2023, June 2023, September 2023, and February 2024. Topics include recent upgrades, user accessibility, user management, e-invoices, and claim letters. Includes a glossary (pp. 30–34) and definitions of various status codes (pp. 82–88).
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    • Part 3_Redacted.pdf (52 pages): Materials from various WBSCM user trainings dated May 2019, September 2023, and February 2024. Topics include user management, agency management, and multi-food orders.
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    • Part 4_Redacted.pdf (59 pages): Materials from various WBSCM user trainings dated March 2021, December 2022, July 2023, and September 2023. Topics include user management, delivery documents, requisition display, entitlement balances, and complaint display.
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    • Part 6_Redacted.pdf (60 pages): Materials from various WBSCM user trainings dated June 2020, March 2021, June 2023, December 2023, and February 2024. Topics include transaction reports, multi-food order data exports, organization management, multi-destination deliveries, and national warehouse delivery calendars.
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    • Part 7_Redacted.pdf (52 pages): Materials from various WBSCM user trainings dated March 2021, April 2021, March 2023, and February 2024. Topics include delivery scheduling, entitlement maintenance, recall notification management, and organization management.
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    • Part 8_Redacted.pdf (61 pages): Materials from various WBSCM user trainings dated April 2021, July 2022, January 2023, and February 2024. Topics include delivery scheduling, user profiles, catalog management, discussion forums, and address management.
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    The Administration for Community Living (ACL) maintains the National Adult Maltreatment Reporting System (NAMRS), “the first comprehensive, national reporting system for adult protective services (APS) programs.” It “collects quantitative and qualitative data on APS practices and policies, and the outcomes of investigations into the maltreatment of older adults and adults with disabilities."

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    (1) Descriptive data on state agency and practices from all states through the “Agency Component,” and

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    (2) Case-level, non-identifiable data on persons who receive an investigation by APS in response to an allegation of abuse, neglect, or exploitation through “Case Component”, or

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    Per ACL, the system collects “no personally identifiable information”. States submit their data to NAMRS annually, and on a voluntary basis. According to ACL’s most recent Adult Maltreatment Report, all states and territories submit at least some data to NAMRS: 62% submit the case and agency components, 29% submit the key indicator and agency components, and 9% submit only the agency component.

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    Our FOIA request 📄 seeks all database records in NAMRS, excluding fields containing sensitive user information. It also seeks all relevant database documentation.

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    Note: Some database documentation can already be found in ACL’s information collection review package for NAMRS, as well as in a report by the contractor that built the system.

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    The Automated Targeting System is a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) “decision support tool that compares traveler, cargo, and conveyance information against law enforcement, intelligence, and other enforcement data using risk-based scenarios and assessments.” It stores a wide range of records on people and cargo, collected directly as well as copied from other government data systems. (For more details, see CBP’s 2017 Privacy Impact Assessment update.)

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    Among those records are data that CBP extracts from individuals’ electronic devices — the subject of a recent letter from Sen. Ron Wyden to the agency, as well as coverage in the Washington Post.

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    Our FOIA request 📄 seeks all records that document the ATS, such as database diagrams and user guides. Such records are essential to (a) providing the public with a clearer and more specific understanding of the types of information DHS/CBP may hold about them, and (b) enabling the public to construct productive, efficient FOIA requests for particular slices of non-exempt database material in the future.

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    This request is a collaboration with Data Liberation Project volunteer Jake J. Smith.

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    This FOIA request 📄 to the Bureau of Prisons seeks data records representing each federal inmate death from 2005 to the present. The request asks that the records include, for each death, the inmate’s:

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    We believe that such records are available and can be produced in a structured, machine-readable format for the following reasons:

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      In 2024, the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General released a report, “Evaluation of Issues Surrounding Inmate Deaths in Federal Bureau of Prisons Institutions,” which states: “We analyzed BOP-provided data as of October 27, 2023, on inmate deaths by suicide, homicide, accident, and unknown manner from FY 2014 through FY 2021. Specific data points included a deceased inmate’s registration number, name, sex, race, manner of death, specific cause of death, date of death, assigned institution, assigned housing location within the institution, security level designation, and Mental Health Care Level (MHCL) designation at the time of death.” 

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      In response to a previous FOIA request, BOP provided a subset of prisoner death data that included inmate name, registration number, date of death, institution ID, death category, and ICD-10 primary cause of death code and description. 

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      Although the records in that PDF provided via FOIA go back only to 2019, we believe that BOP possesses earlier records, as evidenced by a 2023 article published by National Public Radio describing “[r]ecords obtained from the Bureau of Prisons (BOP)” that date back to at least 2009. 

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    This request was inspired by conversations with Mike Schlauch, a data scientist at DrivenData.

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    Customs and Border Protection’s Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) “is the system through which the trade community reports imports and exports and the government determines admissibility.”

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    Of particular interest, ACE contains the “bills of lading” (also know as cargo manifests) describing each shipment into and out of the United States.

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    Per CBP’s privacy impact assessment for ACE, “as required by 19 U.S.C. § 1431, 46 U.S.C. § 60105, and 19 CFR § 103.31, certain inbound and outbound manifest data in ACE may be made available for publication.” The first and third of those cited statutes provide more detail about what aspects of those bills of lading are disclosable to the public.

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    Such import/export manifest data has a broad range of socially beneficial uses, including investigative journalism, supply chain monitoring, and economic research.

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    Our FOIA request 📄 to CBP seeks all disclosable data records, from all database tables in ACE, documenting inward and outward manifests received by CBP since January 1, 2013.

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    The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau maintains a “system of records” titled “CFPB.004—Enforcement Database,” which enables the agency:

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    to carry out its responsibilities with respect to enforcement of Title X of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and other Federal consumer financial laws. This includes investigating potential violations of federal consumer financial laws, pursuing administrative or civil enforcement actions, and making appropriate referrals to other federal or state agencies.

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    Our FOIA request 📄 seeks all records that document the Enforcement Database, such as database diagrams and user guides, for the purpose of better understanding the system and also to aid in the construction of efficient FOIA requests for particular slices of non-exempt database material in the future.

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    • + Additional Records Discovered And Withheld • On June 26, 2024, CFPB emailed a letter 📄 denying access to additional records uncovered via the appeal-remanded search. It reads, in part: “A search of our Office of Enforcement identified records responsive to your May 30, 2023 request that were omitted from our September 18, 2023 response. However, these omitted records are withheld in full pursuant to 5 U.S.C. § 552(b)(7)(E). Additionally, due to the way the requested information is stored, it would create an undue burden on the CFPB to determine the amount of reasonably segregable data beyond what was previously released.” +
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It reads, in part: &ldquo;A search of our Office of Enforcement identified records responsive to your May 30, 2023 request that were omitted from our September 18, 2023 response. However, these omitted records are withheld in full pursuant to 5 U.S.C. § 552(b)(7)(E). Additionally, due to the way the requested information is stored, it would create an undue burden on the CFPB to determine the amount of reasonably segregable data beyond what was previously released.&rdquo; + + + + Appeal Partly Granted + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/cfpb-enforcement-matters/#update-appeal-partly-granted + Mon, 18 Dec 2023 12:54:00 -0500 + The Data Liberation Project + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/cfpb-enforcement-matters/#update-appeal-partly-granted + On December 18, 2023, CFPB&rsquo;s legal department <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24229211-2023-12-18-final-appellate-determination-letter_2023-0365-a">provided a determination letter 📄</a> in response to the Data Liberation Project&rsquo;s November 16 appeal. The determination grants the appeal of CFPB&rsquo;s handling of the data portion of the request: &ldquo;Here, the FOIA Office appears to have determined it was releasing segregable portions of the requested records in response to the Request. Nonetheless, the FOIA Office did not indicate the amount of information deleted or explain the exemption under which the deletion was made. I therefore grant your appeal with respect to Part 1 of the Request and remand the Request to the FOIA Office to determine whether any additional reasonably segregable non-exempt records can be produced without the agency expending an unreasonable amount of time and resources, and to release any reasonably segregable non-exempt records that are not subject to any exemption.&rdquo; The letter, however, denied the appeal for the second portion of the request, which sought training materials related to the database. + + + + Appeal Filed + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/cfpb-enforcement-matters/#update-appeal-filed + Thu, 16 Nov 2023 16:10:00 -0500 + The Data Liberation Project + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/cfpb-enforcement-matters/#update-appeal-filed + On November 16, 2023, the Data Liberation Project <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24169701-2023-11-16-appeal-re-foia-request-cfpb-2023-0365-f-singer-vine">submitted an appeal 📄</a> to CFPB regarding this case, requesting that a more complete set of records be provided. + + + + Initial Response Received + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/cfpb-enforcement-matters/#update-initial-response-received + Mon, 18 Sep 2023 13:30:00 -0500 + The Data Liberation Project + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/cfpb-enforcement-matters/#update-initial-response-received + On September 18, 2023, CFPB emailed its <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24026548-2023-09-18-cfpb-2023-0365-f-determination-letter">response to our request 📄</a>; the agency <a href="https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/cfpb-enforcement-matters/">provided one spreadsheet</a> in response to the first part of the request, and fully withheld all 530 pages of documentation potentially responsive to the second part of the request. + + + + Request Acknowledged + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/cfpb-enforcement-matters/#update-request-acknowledged + Wed, 31 May 2023 13:24:00 -0400 + The Data Liberation Project + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/cfpb-enforcement-matters/#update-request-acknowledged + On May 31, 2023, CFPB emailed a <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23831885-2023-05-31-cfpb-2023-0365-f-ack-letter">letter acknowledging our request 📄</a>. + + + + + diff --git a/public/requests/cms-acute-hospital-care-at-home/index.html b/public/requests/cms-acute-hospital-care-at-home/index.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..73eb099 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/requests/cms-acute-hospital-care-at-home/index.html @@ -0,0 +1,159 @@ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + The Data Liberation Project — “Acute Hospital Care at Home” Data + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
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    This request is a collaboration with Maddy Varner of The Markup.

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    In November 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a new waiver program, called Acute Hospital Care At Home (AHCaH), aimed at “providing eligible hospitals with unprecedented regulatory flexibilities to treat eligible patients in their homes.”

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    The waiver, “which is granted at the individual hospital/CMS Certification Number (CCN) level, waives §482.23(b) and (b)(1) of the Hospital Conditions of Participation (CoPs) which require nursing services to be provided on premises 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and the immediate availability of a registered nurse for care of any patient.”

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    Hospitals approved for an AHCaH waiver must submit weekly or monthly “reporting measures,” monitoring information crucial to assessing the hospital’s performance with regards to the waiver — including patient volume, “unanticipated mortality” counts, “escalation” rates, a question relating the hospital’s safety committee, and a patient list.

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    Our FOIA request 📄 seeks all database records pertaining to AHCaH waiver requests, their processing by CMS, and the reporting measures submitted by participating hospitals, with the exception of personally-identifiable information. It also seeks all relevant database documentation.

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    This request is a collaboration with Mike Gartner of Persius, an organization that provides free digital tools and data to help US consumers navigate issues with health insurance.

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    Medicare uses a tiered appeals process by which beneficiaries can contest denials of coverage. The second level (“Level 2”) of the five level process is known as a Qualified Independent Contractor (QIC) Reconsideration.

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    CMS currently maintains a publicly accessible view of a structured dataset containing Level 2 appeal outcomes for Part C and Part D (but neither Part A nor Part B). It contains the following fields:

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    These fields, however, represent a small fraction of the records CMS collects for each Level 2 appeal through its Medicare Appeals System. Furthermore, the online database contains only appeals decided since 2020.

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    For these reasons, our FOIA request 📄 seeks all database records representing Level 2 appeals for Medicare Parts A, B, C, and D, and their outcomes, minus personally-identifying information.

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    This request is a collaboration with Mike Gartner of Persius, an organization that provides free digital tools and data to help US consumers navigate issues with health insurance.

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    In 2005, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented the Medicare Appeals System (MAS) to track and store data on patients’ appeals of Medicare insurance determinations.

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    Despite the central role that MAS plays in the oversight and administration of Medicare appeals, little public documentation is available describing how it works or how it is structured.

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    Our FOIA request 📄 seeks all records (such as user guides, data dictionaries, entity relationship diagrams, etc.) that document the functionality of the system.

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    The Drug Enforcement Administration requires all entities it has authorized to manufacture or handle controlled substances to inform the agency about any “theft or significant loss of any controlled substance, disposal receptacles or listed chemicals within one business day of discovery of such loss or theft.”

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    Those reports are collected via the DEA’s Theft Loss Reporting (TLR) system, which allows registrants to submit the following forms electronically:

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    According to the agency’s filings with Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, the DEA receives as many as 37,047 submissions of Form DEA-106 annually, and as many as 3,827 for Form DEA-107.

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    To our knowledge, the DEA proactively publishes only highly-aggregated information collected through the TLR system. In its 2020 National Drug Threat Assessment report, the DEA notes that more than 6 million dosage units of opioids were reported stolen or lost in 2019 and that two states (Missouri and Arizona) each accounted for more than 2,000 incidents of controlled prescription drugs being lost in transit that year. These figures suggest that the theft and loss of controlled substances and listed chemicals are widespread, and contain important local variations that the DEA’s published reports do not fully capture.

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    Our FOIA request 📄 to the DEA seeks all database records collected through the TLR system, Form DEA-106, and Form DEA-107 (excluding narrative data fields and data fields that contain personal information about individual persons), plus all relevant database documentation.

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    The disclosure of these records would allow the public to identify important trends in controlled substance theft/loss that could help identify problems in their communities, as well as to hold the DEA accountable regarding its responsibility “to prevent, detect, and investigate the diversion of controlled pharmaceuticals and listed chemicals from legitimate sources[.]”

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    • + Denial appealed • On May 17, 2024, the Data Liberation Project filed another appeal 📄, arguing that the exemptions cited in the February 27 denial do not apply to the entirety of the records requested.The appeal has been assigned tracking number A-2024-01699 📄. +
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    • + Appeal filed • On June 21, 2023, the Data Liberation Project filed an appeal 📄 of the initial outcome of this request, citing an inadequate search. The appeal has been assigned tracking number A-2023-01489 📄. +
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Regarding the data records, the agency upheld the DEA&rsquo;s original determination, arguing that &ldquo;it would require DEA to conduct an unreasonably burdensome search. Your request is not reasonably described because you did not characterize the records sought in such a way that they could be located without conducting thousands of hours of search.&rdquo; Regarding the documentation records, the appeal determination remanded that portion back to the DEA, asking them to conduct a search for responsive records. + + + + Appeal filed + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/controlled-substance-theft-and-loss/#update-appeal-filed + Wed, 21 Jun 2023 10:24:00 -0400 + The Data Liberation Project + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/controlled-substance-theft-and-loss/#update-appeal-filed + On June 21, 2023, the Data Liberation Project <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23854928-2023-06-21-appeal-of-dea-foia-22-01101-f-singer-vine">filed an appeal 📄</a> of the initial outcome of this request, citing an inadequate search. The appeal has been <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23855142-2023-06-21-a-23-01489">assigned tracking number A-2023-01489 📄</a>. + + + + Some records provided + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/controlled-substance-theft-and-loss/#update-some-records-provided + Fri, 12 May 2023 16:57:00 -0400 + The Data Liberation Project + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/controlled-substance-theft-and-loss/#update-some-records-provided + On May 12, 2023, the DEA sent a <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23813617-2023-05-12-signed-det-65">determination letter 📄</a> regarding this request, along with <a href="https://github.com/data-liberation-project/dea-theft-and-loss-counts">two spreadsheets</a> the letter says are responsive to the Data Liberation Project&rsquo;s request. The agency did not provide any of the underlying report data requested, nor the documentation requested. + + + + Request Acknowledged, Placed on "Complex Track" + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/controlled-substance-theft-and-loss/#update-request-acknowledged-placed-on-complex-track + Tue, 27 Sep 2022 19:03:00 -0400 + The Data Liberation Project + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/controlled-substance-theft-and-loss/#update-request-acknowledged-placed-on-complex-track + On September 27, 2022, the DEA <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23070510-2022-09-27-dea-foia_pa-case-number-22-01101-f-acknowledgment-letter">emailed an acknowledgment letter 📄</a> regarding this request, which has been assigned to the &ldquo;complex&rdquo; processing track. &ldquo;The records you seek require searches in another office or offices, and so your request falls within &lsquo;unusual circumstances.&rsquo; [&hellip;] Because of these unusual circumstances, we are extending the time limit to respond to your request beyond the ten additional days provided by the statute. We have not yet completed a search to determine whether there are records within the scope of your request.&rdquo; + + + + + diff --git a/public/requests/dod-army-slot-machines/index.html b/public/requests/dod-army-slot-machines/index.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..26d000b --- /dev/null +++ b/public/requests/dod-army-slot-machines/index.html @@ -0,0 +1,153 @@ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + The Data Liberation Project — Army Slot Machines + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
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    This request is a collaboration with journalist Molly Longman.

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    A 2017 report from the Government Accountability Office indicates that the Department of Defense and Army maintain records about the numbers, locations, and revenues of slot machines on overseas military installations. According to data the DOD provided to the GAO, “in fiscal years 2011 through 2015, DOD-run slot machines generated a total of $538.9 million in revenue.” The Army accounted for roughly half of that revenue.

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    Very few details, however, are publicly available regarding the operation of those slot machines.

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    Our FOIA request 📄 to the Army seeks all records — spreadsheets, databases, reports, presentations, and/or memoranda — indicating the number, location, sponsors of, and/or revenue of slot machines on DOD properties.

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    • + Rerouted Request Acknowledged • On August 16, 2024, the Installation Management Command (IMCOM) Headquarters FOIA office acknowledged the rerouted request and assigned it case number FP-24-025815. +
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    The Family Advocacy Program (FAP) Child Abuse and Domestic Abuse Incident Reporting System is a Department of Defense database “designed to address prevention, identification, evaluation, treatment, rehabilitation, follow-up, and reporting of child abuse and neglect, domestic abuse, and problematic sexual behavior in children and youth” in military communities. It contains information about each incident, victim, and alleged abuser.

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    This request is a collaboration with journalist Alec Gitelman.

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    The Department of Defense’s Excess Defense Articles (EDA) program offers free and discounted equipment to foreign governments. “Typically, EDA is transferred to support U. S. allies in their modernization efforts and to assist Latin American and Caribbean nations in their counter-narcotics programs,” according the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA), which oversees the program.

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    Our FOIA request 📄 seeks the latest version of the database, including any FOIA-disclosable data records not provided in the public spreadsheet. It also seeks a copy of all internal EDA database records pertaining to four specific transfers, as well as records documenting the internal EDA database.

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    The Department of Defense’s “enterprise Military Housing” (eMH) system has, since April 2014, been the US military’s “authoritative data source” on military’s housing assets.

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    As noted in a recent DOD Inspector General report, “according to an eMH program official, the DoD had an ongoing effort to develop an environmental health and safety module in the eMH to track health and safety hazards” in privatized military housing, which accounts for the vast majority of housing on military installations in the US. Per the Inspector General report:

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    The eMH program official added that another update, scheduled for February 2022, would include search and reporting capabilities, as well as refinement of risk rating logic, and lab data for asbestos, lead paint, and radon assessments. Finally, the eMH program official stated that the environmental health and safety module would eventually be able to provide visibility of data trends and dashboards for the risk ratings at the enterprise, region, and installation levels.

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    Our FOIA request 📄 seeks all database records in this “environmental health and safety module.” It also seeks all records in the eMH system corresponding to inspections, housing inventory, and basic (non-personally identifiable) resident information, so that the environmental health and safety records can be put into context.

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    The Defense Sexual Assault Incident Database (DSAID) is the Department of Defense’s “authoritative, centralized case-level database used to collect and maintain information on sexual assaults involving members of the Armed Forces, including tracking and reporting on sexual assault-related retaliation data.”

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    Although the Department of Defense publishes some aggregate statistics on the sexual assault reports it receives (for instance, in the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office’s annual reports), such statistics are of limited use to members of the public who seek to understand patterns in sexual assault reports and outcomes beyond those pre-designated by the Department’s metrics. The published statistics, for instance, do not compare case outcome/disposition by victim, alleged perpetrator, or incident characteristics.

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    The types of records collected in DSAID are described in a Federal Register notice published on October 9, 2019.

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    We limit our request to records relating to “unrestricted reports,” the reporting method that the Department’s Sexual Assault Prevention Response Office indicates “is recommended for victims of sexual assault who desire an official investigation and command notification in addition to healthcare, victim advocacy and legal services.”

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    44 U.S. Code § 3511(a) mandates that “the head of each agency shall, to the maximum extent practicable, develop and maintain a comprehensive data inventory that accounts for all data assets created by, collected by, under the control or direction of, or maintained by the agency.” These comprehensive data inventories have specific requirements, are distinct from “data catalogs,” and are not restricted to public datasets.

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    Another portion of federal law, 44 U.S. Code § 3505(c), requires that “[t]he head of each agency shall develop and maintain an inventory of major information systems (including major national security systems) operated by or under the control of such agency.”

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    Our FOIA request 📄 to the Department of the Interior (DOI) seeks all records that contribute to the agency’s fulfillment of those two requirements.

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    Notably, the DOI’s Chief Data Officer led a federal working group in the production of an April 2022 report underscoring the importance of agency data inventories.

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    The agency does publish a listing of datasets via https://data.doi.gov/data.json, that file appears to be substantially incomplete. For instance: Only 57 entries reference non-public datasets, all maintained by the National Park Service (and none by other subagencies); only five entries reference datasets maintained by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and only one by the Bureau of Reclamation, both numbers being far below the realistic number of datasets those subagencies maintain.

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    • + Request Fulfilled, No Responsive Records • On July 17, 2023, the Department of the Interior emailed a final response letter 📄. “After a thorough search, it has been determined that Office of the Secretary has no records responsive to you request. The Office of Chief Information Office informed our office that they did not discover any additional data inventories beyond those that are harvested by the current data inventory at data.doi.gov which are reported to data.gov. The program office then queried other bureaus within the Department of the Interior to check if their offices are using other data asset inventories.” According to a document provided alongside the determination 📄, those bureaus each attested that they held no further data inventories. +
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    This request is a collaboration with Maddy Varner of The Markup.

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    42 U.S. Code § 10368, introduced by the Secure Water Act of 2009, requires the Secretary of the Interior to establish a “national water availability and use assessment program.”

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    The law requires the program to include “the maintenance of a comprehensive national water use inventory to enhance the level of understanding with respect to the effects of spatial and temporal patterns of water use on the availability and sustainable use of water resources[,]” as well as “the integration of any dataset maintained by any other Federal or State agency into the dataset maintained by the Secretary[.]”

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    Our FOIA request 📄 to the Department of the Interior (DOI) seeks a full copy of all database records corresponding to that inventory and those dataset integrations. It also seeks all relevant database documentation.

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    Note: We sent our initial FOIA request 📄 (tracking number DOI-OS-2023-002629) to DOI’s Office of the Secretary, which said it had no responsive records but suggested we resubmit to the US Geological Survey (USGS). See the updates section below for details.

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    • + Appeal Filed • On May 23, 2024, the Data Liberation Project submitted an appeal of USGS’s withholding of site identifiers (names, IDs, locations) 📄, arguing that the cited exemptions do not apply. The appeal has been assigned tracking number 2024-120. +
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The appeal has been assigned tracking number 2024-120. + + + + Records Published + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/doi-water-use-inventory/#update-records-published + Mon, 08 Apr 2024 22:00:00 -0400 + The Data Liberation Project + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/doi-water-use-inventory/#update-records-published + On April 8, 2024, the Data Liberation Project <a href="../../datasets/usgs-water-use-inventory">published the responsive records</a>, <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fzj-0DEpM2o5s37R7ixI2khjAbYDbT655EvnKWyvVkg/edit">documentation</a> describing what it has learned about the data, as well as a <a href="https://github.com/data-liberation-project/usgs-water-use-inventory-processing">GitHub repository</a> combining and assessing the records. + + + + Records Provided + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/doi-water-use-inventory/#update-records-provided + Wed, 06 Mar 2024 16:15:00 -0500 + The Data Liberation Project + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/doi-water-use-inventory/#update-records-provided + On March 6, 2024, USGS provided a <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24536715-2024-03-06-23-3302-final-response">final response letter 📄</a>, accompanied by responsive records, which the Data Liberation Project began reviewing. + + + + Acknowledgement of Clarified Request + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/doi-water-use-inventory/#update-acknowledgement-of-clarified-request + Wed, 29 Mar 2023 17:50:00 -0400 + The Data Liberation Project + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/doi-water-use-inventory/#update-acknowledgement-of-clarified-request + On March 29, 2023, following a March 27 conference call regarding this request, USGS emailed a <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23736776-2023-03-29-23-3302-acknowledgement-of-clarification">&ldquo;Acknowledgement of Clarified Request&rdquo; letter</a>. The letter reflects the clarifications we made on the call — chiefly that we&rsquo;re seeking &ldquo;[a]ll high-resolution water use data which contributed to the aggregated water use inventory,&rdquo; rather than the aggregated statistics already available online. The letter also notes that USGS has not yet made a determination on our request for a fee waiver,&quot; that &ldquo;your request falls into the Extraordinary processing track, and that &ldquo;[t]here are 40 requests pending ahead of yours in our overall processing queue.&rdquo; + + + + Request Resubmitted + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/doi-water-use-inventory/#update-request-resubmitted + Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:30:00 -0400 + The Data Liberation Project + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/doi-water-use-inventory/#update-request-resubmitted + On March 13, 2023, following the suggestion in letter referenced in the prior update, we <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23706311-2023-03-13-usgs-water-use-inventory-foia-request-singer-vinevarner">resubmitted the FOIA request 📄</a>, with minor changes, this time sending it to the US Geological Survey (USGS). + + + + "No Responsive Records," Resubmission Suggested + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/doi-water-use-inventory/#update-no-responsive-records-resubmission-suggested + Wed, 01 Mar 2023 09:23:00 -0500 + The Data Liberation Project + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/doi-water-use-inventory/#update-no-responsive-records-resubmission-suggested + On March 1, 2023, DOI&rsquo;s Office of the Secretary emailed a <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23706213-2023-03-01-23-002629-final-disposition-letter">final disposition letter 📄</a> indicating that, &ldquo;After a thorough search of our files, it has been determined that the Office of the Secretary has no records responsive to your request.&rdquo; The letter, however, also suggested that, &ldquo;To the extent responsive records exist, the records you have requested may be maintained by the United States Geological Survey (USGS). As such, you may wish to submit your request(s) to that agency’s FOIA office[.]&rdquo; + + + + Request Acknowledged, Assigned to "Complex" Track + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/doi-water-use-inventory/#update-request-acknowledged-assigned-to-complex-track + Fri, 17 Feb 2023 09:40:00 -0500 + The Data Liberation Project + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/doi-water-use-inventory/#update-request-acknowledged-assigned-to-complex-track + On February 17, 2023, DOI emailed a <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23685229-2023-02-17-23-002629_ack">letter acknowledging our request 📄</a> and noting the request has been assigned to the &ldquo;Complex processing track.&rdquo; + + + + + diff --git a/public/requests/dol-file-plans-and-eis-listings/index.html b/public/requests/dol-file-plans-and-eis-listings/index.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b1ea664 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/requests/dol-file-plans-and-eis-listings/index.html @@ -0,0 +1,161 @@ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + The Data Liberation Project — DOL File Plans and EIS Listings + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
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    Our FOIA request 📄 to the Department of Labor (DOL) seeks all department “file plans” and “electronic information system listings,” as well as the copies of those types of records already centralized in a particular internal Sharepoint site.

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    Per the National Archives, “A file plan describes the records held in a single office, department, or file station (paper or electronic).” Specifically:

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    It combines information from the records inventory and the records schedule to create a simple tool the office uses to organize, retrieve, and maintain its records. File plans can be used to manage records in all formats, including electronic records. A file plan lists each series held by the unit, including its series title, description, and official retention and disposition as specified in the organization’s records schedule. Most file plans also include information about how the records are to be organized (e.g., file by project number) and where the records are to be stored. A file plan can also include other helpful information by identifying records with special storage requirements for security or privacy and by noting which records are backed up off-site as essential records. File plans make it easy for employees to determine where, how, and for how long they should store the types of records specific to their organization.

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    “Electronic information system listing,” meanwhile, appears to be the agency terminology for the “inventory of major information systems” that 44 U.S. Code § 3505(c) requires “[t]he head of each agency [to] develop and maintain[.]”

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    The Department of Transportation requires airlines to “submit monthly reports to the Department when the indebtedness for transportation furnished to a candidate, running for Federal office, or to persons acting on behalf of such candidate, exceeds $5,000 on the last day of a month during the 6 months before an election or nomination.” These reports are collected via DOT Form 183, which since mid-2010 are supposed to have been submitted electronically as CSVs or PDFs.

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    Our FOIA request 📄 seeks all such records submitted since July 16, 2010.

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    Although the Federal Election Commission publishes records on candidates’ debts to airlines (see, e.g., here), the Department of Transportation is the direct collector of the airlines’ version of these records. Access to those filings will allow the public to corroborate the FEC’s records and to identify potential incongruities.

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    The records requested also provide additional details on the credit extension not available via the FEC’s public records: “name of account; credit limit for account; the balance, if any, of the amount payable for transportation not paid for in advance; any unpaid balance of the charges for such transportation as of the last day of the month covered by the report, and the length of time that such balance has remained unpaid; a description of the type and value of any bond, collateral, or other security securing such unpaid balance.”

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    The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission uses its Integrated Mission System (IMS) to track employment discrimination complaints and investigations. As a 2020 report commissioned by the EEOC Office of Inspector General explains:

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    IMS is the key database used to track, assign and document key actions taken during a case’s full lifecycle. Accordingly, IMS maintains information on federal complaint hearings records. Information stored includes the complainant’s name, address and demographics; the agency’s name and address; and particular details of the complaint (such as number of days in certain stages, if IMS action code is available); and activities related to the complaint, such as the number of days at each stage of the appeals process as confirmed by Appeals Action codes.

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    The agency’s Privacy Impact Assessment for IMS generally describes the system’s various components and types of data collected, but lacks specific information about how the data are recorded, the structure of the database, and many other essential details.

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    Our FOIA request 📄 seeks all records that document IMS, such as database diagrams and user guides, for the purpose of better understanding the system and also to aid in the construction of efficient FOIA requests for particular slices of non-exempt database material in the future.

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    EPA’s Risk Management Program (RMP) rule “requires facilities that use extremely hazardous substances to develop a Risk Management Plan which: identifies the potential effects of a chemical accident, identifies steps the facility is taking to prevent an accident, and spells out emergency response procedures should an accident occur.”

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    These facilities must submit their Risk Management Plans and accident histories to the EPA’s Office of Land and Emergency Management (OLEM) on a regular basis.

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    The agency stores the RMP records in what it has referred to as the “RMP National Database.”

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    The EPA has previously released versions of that database via FOIA and provides some access via physical reading rooms but, to the best of our knowledge, there is no current source of direct public access to the records.

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    Indeed, the agency itself has publicly lamented this situation, writing that the current “barriers [to accessing the RMP data] do not appropriately facilitate community right-to-know or equitable distribution of knowledge on fenceline community risks to those most affected by potential releases,” and that “current, publicly available information on the risk management plan national database is insufficient for informing communities about RMP-regulated facilities.”

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    For many years, information drawn from the database was available via the Center for Effective Government’s Right to Know Network, later adopted by the Houston Chronicle and Reynolds Journalism Institute, but those resources are no longer operational.

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    Our FOIA request 📄 to the EPA seeks all records in the RMP National Database (with the exception of the “Off-Site Consequence Analysis” records deemed non-disclosable by 40 CFR Part 1400), plus all relevant database documentation.

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On July 24, 2023, after processing the records and updating the documentation, the Data Liberation Project <a href="../../datasets/epa-risk-management-program-database">published the updated records</a>. + + + + Updated Records Requested + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/epa-risk-management-program/#update-updated-records-requested + Fri, 09 Jun 2023 18:46:00 -0400 + The Data Liberation Project + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/epa-risk-management-program/#update-updated-records-requested + On June 9, 2023, the EPA informed the Data Liberation Project that an updated version of the RMP database was available for request via FOIA. The DLP submitted a <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23840360-2023-06-09-epaolem-rmp-update-foia-request-singer-vine">📄 request for the new records</a> later that day. The EPA has assigned it the tracking number EPA-2023-004730. + + + + Records Made Publicly Available + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/epa-risk-management-program/#update-records-made-publicly-available + Tue, 21 Feb 2023 09:00:00 -0500 + The Data Liberation Project + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/epa-risk-management-program/#update-records-made-publicly-available + On February 21, 2023, the DLP made the records obtained through this FOIA request, as well as documentation and other resources, <a href="../../datasets/epa-risk-management-program-database">available to the public</a>. + + + + Records Provided, DLP Processing + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/epa-risk-management-program/#update-records-provided-dlp-processing + Thu, 01 Dec 2022 16:34:00 -0500 + The Data Liberation Project + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/epa-risk-management-program/#update-records-provided-dlp-processing + On December 1, 2022, the EPA, noting the DLP&rsquo;s successful fee waiver appeal, offered to mail a set of responsive records on a compact disc for free. The DLP agreed and has since received the CD, which it is examining, documenting, and processing for publication. For more details and opportunities to get involved, please see the DLP&rsquo;s <a href="https://buttondown.email/data-liberation-project/archive/dlp-dispatch-3/">December 6, 2022 newsletter dispatch</a>. + + + + Fee Waiver Denial Overturned, Complete Fee Waiver Granted + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/epa-risk-management-program/#update-fee-waiver-denial-overturned-complete-fee-waiver-granted + Wed, 30 Nov 2022 16:00:00 -0500 + The Data Liberation Project + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/epa-risk-management-program/#update-fee-waiver-denial-overturned-complete-fee-waiver-granted + On November 30, 2022, the EPA&rsquo;s Office of General Counsel <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23322757-2022-11-30-appeal-determination-singer-vine-epa-2023-000538-fee-waiver-signed">emailed a letter 📄</a> overturning the agency&rsquo;s initial denial of a fee waiver for this request. &ldquo;For the reasons set forth below, I have concluded that your appeal of your request for a complete waiver of fees should be and is granted,&rdquo; the letter states. + + + + Fee Waiver Appeal Acknowledged + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/epa-risk-management-program/#update-fee-waiver-appeal-acknowledged + Mon, 07 Nov 2022 10:17:00 -0500 + The Data Liberation Project + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/epa-risk-management-program/#update-fee-waiver-appeal-acknowledged + On November 7, 2022, the EPA sent an email acknowledging the Data Liberation Project&rsquo;s appeal of the agency&rsquo;s fee waiver denial and assigning EPA-2023-000670 as the appeal tracking number. &ldquo;Your appeal is being assigned to an attorney in the Office of General Counsel for processing,&rdquo; according to the email. + + + + Fee Waiver Denied, Appealing + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/epa-risk-management-program/#update-fee-waiver-denied-appealing + Tue, 01 Nov 2022 14:33:00 -0400 + The Data Liberation Project + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/epa-risk-management-program/#update-fee-waiver-denied-appealing + On November 1, 2022, the EPA <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23258159-2022-11-01-epa-2023-000538-fee-waiver-denial-lette">emailed a letter 📄</a> denying the Data Liberation Project&rsquo;s request for a fee waiver, on the grounds that &ldquo;[y]our justification did not detail the informative value of the requested records and what would be shared for an increased public understanding.&rdquo; The Data Liberation Project <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23258160-2022-11-01-appeal-of-fee-waiver-denial">submitted an appeal of this decision 📄</a>, supplying additional detail on those questions, later the same day via email. + + + + + diff --git a/public/requests/federal-inmate-complaints/index.html b/public/requests/federal-inmate-complaints/index.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3169257 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/requests/federal-inmate-complaints/index.html @@ -0,0 +1,162 @@ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + The Data Liberation Project — Federal Inmate Complaints + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
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    This request was inspired by a conversation with Nausheen Husain, a journalist and Syracuse professor who has reported on conditions in federal prisons.

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    The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP)’s Administrative Remedy Program “allow[s] an inmate to seek formal review of an issue relating to any aspect of his/her own confinement.”

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    BOP tracks those complaints through SENTRY, the agency’s “primary mission support database” — specifically, SENTRY’s “Administrative Remedy System module,” a component of the system dedicated to tracking such complaints and their follow-up.

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    Information tracked through the module, also known as “Inmate Administrative Remedy Record System, JUSTICE/BOP-004,” includes:

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    (1) Inmate information including (a) name; (b) register number; (c) institution location; (d) current offense and sentence; (e) prior criminal record; (f) social background; (g) institution adjustment; (h) institution program data; (i) medical information; and (j) personal property data; (2) complaint information including copies of BOP-9’s (institution level complaints), BOP-10’s (Region appeals) and BOP-11’s (Central Office appeals); and (3) processing information, including dates of filing and responses.

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    Our FOIA request 📄 to BOP seeks all database records stored within this module, with the exception of data fields that contain personally-identifiable information, plus all relevant database documentation.

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    The Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) provides two main types of assistance to people affected by major disasters: financial assistance and “direct housing” assistance.

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    Receiving direct housing assistance means that FEMA acquires and provides a temporary place for you to live. The main options for direct housing are:

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    For more details about each option, see Table 1 of FEMA’s Direct Housing Guide (February 2020). For further context, see the Congressional Research Service’s overview of FEMA’s individual assistance programs.

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    FEMA tracks its direct housing operations through its Housing Operations Management +Enterprise System (HOMES), which the Direct Housing Guide calls “the Direct Housing system of record.” HOMES is a component of of FEMA’s National Emergency Management Information System (NEMIS), and specifically NEMIS’s “Individual Assistance” subsystem, NEMIS-IA.

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    The Data Liberation Project has been unable to locate public documentation concerning the specific structure of HOMES or a comprehensive accounting of the fields it contains. But the Direct Housing Guide describes some aspects of it. For instance, HOMES appears to track:

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    To our knowledge, vanishingly little data from HOMES is available to the public.

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    Our FOIA request 📄 to FEMA seeks all database records stored in HOMES (excluding data fields containing personally identifying information), plus all relevant database documentation.

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    The release of this data would shed invaluable light on a core component of FEMA’s response to major disasters, which journalists and watchdogs have criticized. (See, for instance, recent coverage in The New York Times and The Washington Post.)

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    The records could also clarify how well the system itself is working, another issue of potential concern. As a 2020 report by the Government Accountability Office noted:

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    […] program officials said this system—which is FEMA’s system of record for tracking direct temporary housing assistance—lacks controls; is inconsistently used by field staff; and has incomplete information, contributing to information-sharing challenges.

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    Even if inconsistencies and incompleteness ultimately prevent certain types of analysis, the public deserves to understand the specific nature of those problems.

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    Note: This request is a collaboration with Forest Gregg, who maintains a free, open-source database of data relevant to the labor movement.

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    The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) is an independent federal agency that helps to mediate labor-management disputes. As part of those efforts, it requires employers entering collective bargaining negotiations to submit an “F-7 notice,” providing information about the upcoming bargaining.

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    Although FMCS publishes spreadsheets containing some data from those submissions, its internal database includes helpful additional details (such as the database’s unique identifiers associated with each employer and union), as evidenced by the schema provided to the Data Liberation Project in response to FOIA-2023-00009.

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    Our FOIA request 📄 to FMCS seeks those full details. Specifically, it seeks all entries in the FMCS case management database’s pt_fmcscase table, with the exception of FOIA-exempt columns, where the case originates with a FMCS F-7 notice as indicated in the pt_f7noticesubmissionformat or pt_f7noticesubmissionformatname columns (or better means as determined by FMCS staff), plus related database-lookup tables.

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    • + Appeal Denied • On March 7, 2024, FMCS denied our appeal 📄, determining that the redactions applied to the records were justified and that “identifiers were not withheld, rather they did not exist.” +
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    Note: This request was inspired by a similar request by Forest Gregg, which FMCS denied for reasons that the Data Liberation Project believes were weakly supported.

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    The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) is an independent federal agency that helps to mediate labor-management disputes. As part of those efforts, it tracks work stoppages (strikes and lockouts) through its case management system.

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    That program, however, publishes data only on the largest work stoppages, those involving 1,000 or more workers. To members of the public that ask, “Where do I find data on work stoppages with less than 1,000 workers?” BLS responds, “The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) issues a monthly report showing all private industry work stoppages.”

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    Lead-based paint poses substantial health risks to residents of homes these hazards have not been remediated. The federal government banned the residential use of lead-based paint, but more than 100,000 of today’s public housing buildings were constructed before that year, according to a recent Development of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Office of Inspector General report.

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    A June 2018 report by the Government Accountability Office identified two key internal databases that HUD has used to track lead-related risks and remediation. In November 2022, the Data Liberation Project filed a FOIA request for the first component, a database it calls the Lead-Based Paint Response Tracker.

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    Now we’re seeking the second component, the Elevated Blood Lead Level Tracker, which the GAO report says HUD “uses to collect and monitor information reported by PHAs on cases of elevated blood levels in children living in voucher and public housing units.”

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    Our FOIA request 📄 asks for a full copy of the Elevated Blood Lead Level Tracker and all relevant database documentation.

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    The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) maintains two key databases related to fair housing complaints:

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    Our FOIA request 📄 seeks complaint- and case-level records (minus personally-identifying information) maintained in these databases since 2010.

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    This request is a collaboration with independent researcher Julia Kieserman.

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    Public housing authorities have the ability to remove tenants from public housing and voucher programs, and have broad discretion in their policies for taking such actions. Little is known, however, about how often this happens, for what reasons, and how those frequencies or reasons vary by public housing authority.

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    The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) maintains a database system called the Enterprise Income Verification (EIV) system, whose stated purpose is “to support up-front income verification by providing income information to be used by [public housing authorities] during tenant recertification as well as related tools to be used in identifying possible dual entitlement situations and whether applicants already are receiving HUD rental housing assistance.”

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    The system also contains a “Debts Owed to PHA’s and Terminations” module, which “allows users to access information concerning former tenants who left owing a debt to a PHA or who had their voucher terminated for cause.” Among the records available for each termination are the following fields:

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    Our FOIA request 📄 to HUD seeks database records matching the fields listed above, for all entries in the module. (We explicitly are not requesting personally-identifiable information regarding any former tenant recorded in the module, such as the name, former address, or Social Security Number.)

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    • + Appeal Partly Granted • On August 8, 2024, HUD responded to our appeal 📄, partly granting it and partly denying it. HUD takes the stance that the aggregated summary data are the only segregable portions of the records, and that providing any additional details would impinge on tenants’ personal privacy. HUD has agreed, however, to check whether the records can be provided in a spreadsheet format rather than as a PDF. +
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    • + Appeal Filed • On July 12, 2024, after several months of seeking clarification from HUD and improvement of the records provided, the Data Liberation Project filed an appeal 📄 of the agency’s response. The appeal has been assigned tracking number 24-A-HQ-00043. +
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    Lead-based paint poses substantial health risks to residents of homes these hazards have not been remediated. The federal government banned the residential use of lead-based paint, but more than 100,000 of today’s public housing buildings were constructed before that year, according to a recent Development of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Office of Inspector General report.

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    In 2016, HUD launched an internal database it calls the Lead-Based Paint Response Tracker, which another Office of Inspector General report, the agency uses the database to “to track and monitor public housing agencies’ compliance with the Lead Safe Housing Rule”:

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    staff inputs potentially noncompliant developments identified by [the Real Estate Assessment Center] into the response tracking system and then the regional or field office program staff would obtain, evaluate, and input supporting documentation such as, evidence of a lead-based paint inspection or support showing that the development was exempt, and comments into the response tracker.

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    Our FOIA request 📄 to HUD seeks a full copy of the Lead-Based Paint Response Tracker, the documents it tracks, and all relevant database documentation.

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    This request is a collaboration with Betsy Ladyzhets of MuckRock’s Documenting COVID-19 project.

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    National Institutes of Health’s RECOVER Initiative is a congressionally-funded research project “to understand how people recover from a COVID infection, and why some people do not fully recover and develop Long COVID or PASC (post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2).”

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    One of the initiative’s core components is its “Adult Study Protocol,” which aims to enroll more than 17,000 people over the course of four years and which involves the use of an extensive “Adult Survey Question Library.” This spreadsheet contains a list of those questions, which cover Long COVID symptoms, COVID treatment history, vaccine status, comorbidities, demographic information, and more.

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    Our FOIA request 📄 seeks all database records collected through that questionnaire, plus all relevant database documentation. Disclosing these records to the public, rather than only to a select group of researchers, could greatly improve public understanding about Long COVID / PASC. It could also help shed light on the progress of the RECOVER Initiative, for which Congress has allocated $1.15 billion in funding.

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    The Commercial Fishing Incident Database (CFID) “is a surveillance system managed by [the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)] to collect information on fatalities and vessel disasters that occur in the US fishing industry.” The database “contains over 100 variables for each fatality” and goes back at least to the year 2000.

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    The database enables the government to ask questions such as, “Where are the most hazardous fisheries?” “What are the worst problems?” “What causes fatalities in hazardous fisheries?” and “Where will prevention efforts be most effective?”

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    Our FOIA request 📄 seeks full copy of the database, minus fields containing personally-identifiable information. It also seeks all relevant database documentation.

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    • + Records Provided • On May 17, 2024, the CDC provided records in response to this request — three spreadsheets and 80 pages of documentation, which the Data Liberation Project has begun reviewing for publication. +
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    When oil spills occur in the US and its waters, he US Coast Guard’s National Pollution Funds Center (NPFC) “provides funding for quick response, compensates claimants for cleanup costs and damages, and takes action to recover costs from responsible parties.”

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    If a Peace Corps volunteer chooses to resign from their position (as opposed to ending their service due to a medical condition or regional political situation), an assessment of the reason for this resignation is made by a supervising staff officer and collected via Form MS-284 Attachment D (“Resignation Form”).

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    According to a Federal Register notice, information collected through this form is stored in the system of records known as “Peace Corps Volunteers: Reasons for Resignation, PEACE CORPS/PC-7,” or “PC-7” for short.

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    Our FOIA request 📄 seeks all database records stored within the PC-7 system (as well as all analogous resignation form records stored in systems that may have preceded or succeeded PC-7), with the exception of data fields that contain personally-identifiable information.

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    • + Records Published • On October 10, 2023, the Data Liberation Project published the records received through the appeal. +
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    • + Appeal Granted • On August 11, 2023, the Peace Corps granted the Data Liberation Project’s appeal, “reversing our decision to withhold the information under FOIA exemption (b)(5).” Additionally, the agency wrote, “After reviewing your initial FOIA request and appeal, the Peace Corps conducted a second search of the Office of Strategic Information, Research, and Planning (OSIRP). As a result of this new search, we are providing you with a new, comprehensive Excel spreadsheet that contains the data elements for all resignations from the Peace Corps through July 31, 2023.” +
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As a result of this new search, we are providing you with a new, comprehensive Excel spreadsheet that contains the data elements for all resignations from the Peace Corps through July 31, 2023.&rdquo; + + + + Appeal Acknowledged + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/peace-corps-resignations/#update-appeal-acknowledged + Fri, 14 Jul 2023 08:07:00 -0400 + The Data Liberation Project + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/peace-corps-resignations/#update-appeal-acknowledged + On July 14, 2023, the Peace Corps acknowledged our appeal, which has been assigned case number 23-0186. + + + + Appeal Filed + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/peace-corps-resignations/#update-appeal-filed + Mon, 10 Jul 2023 13:13:00 -0400 + The Data Liberation Project + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/peace-corps-resignations/#update-appeal-filed + On July 10, 2023, co-requestor Faife and the Data Liberation Project filed a <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23870105-2023-07-10-appeal-of-foia-23-0102">letter appealing this request&rsquo;s determination 📄</a>, arguing that responsive records exist and were improperly withheld. + + + + Non-responsive Records Provided + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/peace-corps-resignations/#update-non-responsive-records-provided + Tue, 02 May 2023 15:58:00 -0400 + The Data Liberation Project + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/peace-corps-resignations/#update-non-responsive-records-provided + On May 2, 2023, the Peace Corps sent <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23870103-2023-05-02-resignation-reasons_redacted">records 📄</a> it said were responsive to the first part of this request, along with a <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23870104-2023-05-02-23-0102-peace-corps-final-response-letter">final response letter 📄</a> for that part. The records, however, were a spreadsheet of aggregated, redacted statistics, rather than the records requested. + + + + Request Acknowledged, Placed In "Simple" Category, Fee Waiver Granted + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/peace-corps-resignations/#update-request-acknowledged-placed-in-simple-category-fee-waiver-granted + Tue, 04 Apr 2023 13:01:00 -0400 + The Data Liberation Project + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/peace-corps-resignations/#update-request-acknowledged-placed-in-simple-category-fee-waiver-granted + On April 4, 2023, the Peace Corps sent an email acknowledging this request. The email indicates that the request has been placed in the &ldquo;simple&rdquo; category and that our fee waiver request has been granted. + + + + Request Elaborated + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/peace-corps-resignations/#update-request-elaborated + Fri, 31 Mar 2023 17:01:00 -0400 + The Data Liberation Project + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/peace-corps-resignations/#update-request-elaborated + On March 31, 2023, in response to our request submission, a Peace Corps information specialist asked if we&rsquo;d like to modify the request to also cover system of records PC-17&rsquo;s Volunteer Information Database Application (<code>VIDA</code>) and Peace Corps Volunteer Database Management System (<code>PCVDBMS</code>), which might contain the relevant records. We agreed; per the specialist, our confirmation via email was sufficient and there is no need to file a new request. + + + + + diff --git a/public/requests/public-housing-inspections/index.html b/public/requests/public-housing-inspections/index.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..50ba3de --- /dev/null +++ b/public/requests/public-housing-inspections/index.html @@ -0,0 +1,157 @@ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + The Data Liberation Project — Public Housing Inspections + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
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    Among its many responsibilities, the Department of Housing and Urban Development oversees public housing in the United States. Although most logistics are handled by the nation’s thousands of local public housing authorities, HUD’s Real Estate Assessment Center coordinates the physical inspections of all public housing properties.

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    These inspections aim to assess whether the properties are “decent, safe, and sanitary.” They are supposed to be conducted by professional, independent inspectors every 1-3 years (with lower-performing properties inspected more often than higher-scoring properties) and are distinct from the routine inspections a building manager or local government might conduct. Inspectors examine the property site, building exteriors, building systems (e.g., heating system, elevators), common areas, and a selection of housing units. A list of the most common deficiencies can be found here.

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    The results of every inspection are collected via a tool called RAPID and fed into the agency’s Physical Assessment Subsystem Server. Per HUD:

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    RAPID is a tool utilized by inspectors to record & process inspection data. The software downloads Inspection Data from the server, record/update Inspection Profile, Property Profile, Participants Profile, Certificates, Building Profile and records observations in the Building System, Building Exteriors, Common Areas and Units. Once all inspectable areas are completed, users can upload the completed inspection to the Physical Assessment Subsystem Server to be process[ed], reviewed, scored and released to Multifamily or PHAS.

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    Unfortunately, HUD releases very limited information about the results of the inspections — only top-level scores, as far as we can tell. But public housing residents and other members of the public deserve to know much more.

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    Our FOIA request 📄 to HUD seeks all database records in the Physical Assessment Subsystem (excluding data fields containing personally identifying information), plus all relevant database documentation.

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    • + Appeal Filed Re. Constructive Denial • On March 20, 2023, the Cornell Law School First Amendment Clinic sent HUD a letter appealing the “constructive denial” of this request, based on the agency’s undue delays. “This appeal is necessary because HUD has not issued a determination within either 20 working days of receipt of the Request or the 10-working-day maximum extension provided for under 5 U.S.C. § 552(a)(6)(B)(i). […] HUD has not yet issued any determination of whether it will grant the Request. Neither has HUD plausibly set forth any ‘unusual circumstances’ that would have justified a ten-working-day extension under 5 U.S.C. § 552(a)(6)(B)(i), much less any ’exceptional circumstances’ under which a court may allow HUD additional time to complete its review under 5 U.S.C. § 552(a)(6)(C)(i).” HUD has assigned the appeal tracking number 23-A-HQ-00026. +
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    The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, passed by Congress in 1990 and amended several times since, “provides one-time benefit payments to persons who may have developed cancer or other specified diseases after being exposed to radiation from atomic weapons testing or uranium mining, milling, or transporting,” according to a helpful explainer from the Congressional Research Service.

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    The Department of Justice’s Civil Division administers the claims process. As of September 2022, the agency has received more than 53,000 claims. It has approved more than more than 39,000 of them, awarding more than $2.5 billion in compensation. More than 13,000 claims have been denied. But very little information is publicly available on claimants’ specific illnesses and/or injuries, counties of exposure, employers, reasons for claim denial, or many other aspects of the information collected. Such information is essential to understanding the enduring effects of radiation on the US population and the functioning of this government program.

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    Our FOIA request 📄 seeks all database records collected through the program’s five claim forms (excluding personally-identifiable information), as well as case-adjudication records from the Civil Division’s case-tracking system. The latter is referenced in several Government Accountability Office reports, including in a 2007 report on the compensation program’s status:

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    To provide updated information on the claims adjudication process, we interviewed RECP officials, obtained responses to our written inquiries, and obtained RECA-related case information for fiscal years 1992 through 2007 (as of June 30) from DOJ’s Civil Division’s case histories database. […] We also interviewed officials in the Civil Division’s Office of Management Information (OMI), the office that maintains the database, and [Radiation Exposure Compensation Program], the office that uses information contained in the database, to obtain updated information about the database.

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    • + Estimated Completion Date Updated (Late 2025) • On September 12, 2024, in response to a Data Liberation Project request for an updated timeline, the Civil Division emailed: “[…] We are working diligently through our backlog. We are currently tackling requests from mid-2021. It could still take an additional year on your request. A few months ago, we brought on additional staff in an effort to tackle our backlog.” +
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    • + Request Informally Acknowledged • On September 30, 2022, in response to a status inquiry, the Civil Division confirmed via email that it has received this request, and that “[a]n acknowledgment letter will follow shortly.” +
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    + + + + + + + + + + + + diff --git a/public/requests/radiation-exposure-compensation/rss.xml b/public/requests/radiation-exposure-compensation/rss.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..da7a5a6 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/requests/radiation-exposure-compensation/rss.xml @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ + + + + Updates: Radiation Exposure Compensation Claims [Records Request] + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/radiation-exposure-compensation/ + Updates on the Data Liberation Project's Radiation Exposure Compensation Claims request + Hugo + en-us + Thu, 12 Sep 2024 12:24:00 -0400 + + Estimated Completion Date Updated (Late 2025) + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/radiation-exposure-compensation/#update-estimated-completion-date-updated-late-2025 + Thu, 12 Sep 2024 12:24:00 -0400 + The Data Liberation Project + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/radiation-exposure-compensation/#update-estimated-completion-date-updated-late-2025 + On September 12, 2024, in response to a Data Liberation Project request for an updated timeline, the Civil Division emailed: &ldquo;[…] We are working diligently through our backlog. We are currently tackling requests from mid-2021. It could still take an additional year on your request. A few months ago, we brought on additional staff in an effort to tackle our backlog.&rdquo; + + + + Estimated Completion Date Provided (March 2024) + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/radiation-exposure-compensation/#update-estimated-completion-date-provided-march-2024 + Thu, 09 Mar 2023 15:15:00 -0500 + The Data Liberation Project + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/radiation-exposure-compensation/#update-estimated-completion-date-provided-march-2024 + On March 9, 2023, in response to the DLP&rsquo;s emailed request for a estimated completion date, the Civil Division wrote, &ldquo;Due to our current backlog, we anticipate completion of your request by March 2024. Although we have provided a timeframe for completing your request, it is possible that your request can be completed prior to that date.&rdquo; + + + + Request Acknowledged, Placed on "Complex Track" + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/radiation-exposure-compensation/#update-request-acknowledged-placed-on-complex-track + Wed, 05 Oct 2022 16:02:00 -0400 + The Data Liberation Project + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/radiation-exposure-compensation/#update-request-acknowledged-placed-on-complex-track + On October 5, 2022, the DOJ&rsquo;s Civil Division <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23126616-2022-10-05-145-foi-18864-acknowledgment-letter">emailed an acknowledgment letter 📄</a> regarding this request, which has been assigned to the &ldquo;complex&rdquo; processing track. &ldquo;The records you seek require a search in another Office in the Division; therefore, your request presents &lsquo;unusual circumstances&rsquo; under the FOIA,&rdquo; according to the letter. The agency has agreed to classify the Data Liberation Project as a &ldquo;representative of the news media,&rdquo; which means the request will not incur search fees. It has not, however, &ldquo;yet made a decision on your request for a [full] fee waiver.&rdquo; + + + + Request Informally Acknowledged + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/radiation-exposure-compensation/#update-request-informally-acknowledged + Fri, 30 Sep 2022 10:43:00 -0400 + The Data Liberation Project + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/radiation-exposure-compensation/#update-request-informally-acknowledged + On September 30, 2022, in response to a status inquiry, the Civil Division confirmed via email that it has received this request, and that &ldquo;[a]n acknowledgment letter will follow shortly.&rdquo; + + + + + diff --git a/public/requests/rss.xml b/public/requests/rss.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bac5736 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/requests/rss.xml @@ -0,0 +1,416 @@ + + + + Records Requests on The Data Liberation Project + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/ + Recent content in Records Requests on The Data Liberation Project + Hugo -- gohugo.io + en-us + Fri, 09 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0400 + + Federal Inmate Deaths + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/bop-federal-inmate-deaths/ + Fri, 09 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/bop-federal-inmate-deaths/ + We’re data records representing each federal inmate death from 2005 to the present. + + + + Excess Defense Article Transfers + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/dod-excess-defense-article-transfers/ + Mon, 22 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/dod-excess-defense-article-transfers/ + We’re requesting an updated copy of the Department of Defense&rsquo;s Excess Defense Articles transfer database. + + + + Army Slot Machines + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/dod-army-slot-machines/ + Tue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/dod-army-slot-machines/ + We&rsquo;re requesting detailing the presence, operation, and finances of slot machines on military property. + + + + Housing Discrimination Complaints and Cases + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/hud-fair-housing-complaints-and-cases/ + Wed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/hud-fair-housing-complaints-and-cases/ + We’re requesting records from HUD databases that track complaints by people alleging housing discrimination and the agency&rsquo;s inquiries into those cases. + + + + Political Candidates’ Airline Credit + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/dot-political-candidate-airline-credit/ + Tue, 02 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/dot-political-candidate-airline-credit/ + We’re requesting records submitted by airlines regarding credit they&rsquo;ve extended to political candidates for federal office. + + + + Medicare "Level 2" Appeals + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/cms-medicare-appeals-level-2/ + Thu, 28 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/cms-medicare-appeals-level-2/ + We’re requesting database records tracking the circumstances and outcomes of patients&rsquo; appeals of Medicare insurance decisions. + + + + Medicare Appeals System (MAS) Documentation + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/cms-medicare-appeals-system-documentation/ + Thu, 28 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/cms-medicare-appeals-system-documentation/ + We’re requesting records that document the functionality of CMS’s Medicare Appeals System. + + + + USDA Organic Program Enforcement + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/usda-organic-program-enforcement/ + Mon, 18 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0500 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/usda-organic-program-enforcement/ + We’re requesting records from the National Organic Program’s enforcement database. + + + + Animal Welfare Investigations (APHIS ITEMS) + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/usda-aphis-investigations-and-enforcement/ + Thu, 09 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0500 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/usda-aphis-investigations-and-enforcement/ + We’re requesting records from Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service’s Investigation Tracking and Enforcement Management System (ITEMS). + + + + DOD Child and Domestic Abuse Incidents + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/dod-child-and-domestic-abuse-incidents/ + Fri, 06 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/dod-child-and-domestic-abuse-incidents/ + We&rsquo;re requesting records from the Department of Defense&rsquo;s child and domestic abuse incident reporting system. + + + + Collective Bargaining Notices (FMCS F-7) + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/fmcs-f-7-notices/ + Fri, 25 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/fmcs-f-7-notices/ + We&rsquo;re requesting detailed data on notices of &ldquo;upcoming collective bargaining&rdquo; submitted to federal labor mediators. + + + + Defense Sexual Assault Incident Database (DSAID) + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/dod-sexual-assault-incident-database/ + Mon, 03 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/dod-sexual-assault-incident-database/ + We’re requesting data from the Department of Defense&rsquo;s &ldquo;authoritative, centralized case-level database used to collect and maintain information on sexual assaults involving members of the Armed Forces.&rdquo; + + + + CFPB Enforcement Matters + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/cfpb-enforcement-matters/ + Tue, 30 May 2023 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/cfpb-enforcement-matters/ + We&rsquo;re requesting database records representing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau&rsquo;s enforcement efforts. + + + + USPS Rural Route Evaluations + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/usps-rural-route-evaluations/ + Mon, 22 May 2023 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/usps-rural-route-evaluations/ + We&rsquo;re requesting data the Postal Service uses in determining compensation for rural mail carriers. + + + + Bills of Lading (Cargo Manifests) + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/cbp-bills-of-lading/ + Thu, 27 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/cbp-bills-of-lading/ + We&rsquo;re requesting comprehensive records on the cargo shipped into and out of the United States. + + + + Public Housing Tenant Terminations + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/hud-tenant-terminations/ + Thu, 27 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/hud-tenant-terminations/ + We&rsquo;re requesting data on public housing authorities&rsquo; removals of tenants from public and subsidized housing. + + + + Student Loan Cancer Treatment Deferments + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/student-loan-cancer-treatment-deferments/ + Thu, 27 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/student-loan-cancer-treatment-deferments/ + We&rsquo;re requesting data on cancer treatment deferment requests by borrowers of student loans. + + + + Peace Corps Resignations + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/peace-corps-resignations/ + Fri, 31 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/peace-corps-resignations/ + We&rsquo;re requesting database records from the Peace Corps indicating volunteers&rsquo; reasons for resignation. + + + + Military Housing: Environmental Health & Safety + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/dod-military-housing-environmental-health/ + Thu, 30 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/dod-military-housing-environmental-health/ + We’re requesting data from the &ldquo;environmental health and safety module&rdquo; of the database the Department of Defense uses to track its housing assets. + + + + DOL File Plans and EIS Listings + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/dol-file-plans-and-eis-listings/ + Mon, 27 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/dol-file-plans-and-eis-listings/ + We&rsquo;re requesting all Department of Labor &ldquo;file plans&rdquo; and electronic information system listings. + + + + National Adult Maltreatment Reporting System + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/acl-adult-maltreatment-reporting-system/ + Fri, 17 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0500 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/acl-adult-maltreatment-reporting-system/ + We’re requesting data from “the first comprehensive, national reporting system for adult protective services programs.” + + + + CFPB Enforcement Database Documentation + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/cfpb-enforcement-database-documentation/ + Thu, 16 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0500 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/cfpb-enforcement-database-documentation/ + We&rsquo;re requesting documentation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau&rsquo;s database tracking its enforcement efforts. + + + + National Water Use Inventory + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/doi-water-use-inventory/ + Thu, 16 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0500 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/doi-water-use-inventory/ + We&rsquo;re requesting a copy of the “comprehensive national water use inventory” mandated by Secure Water Act of 2009. + + + + Commercial Fishing Incident Database + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/niosh-commercial-fishing-incident-database/ + Mon, 30 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0500 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/niosh-commercial-fishing-incident-database/ + We’re requesting a national database of “fatalities and vessel disasters that occur in the US fishing industry.” + + + + USDA Data Inventories + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/usda-data-inventories/ + Mon, 30 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0500 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/usda-data-inventories/ + We&rsquo;re requesting Department of Agriculture records describing its inventories of data and &ldquo;major information systems.&rdquo; + + + + “Acute Hospital Care at Home” Data + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/cms-acute-hospital-care-at-home/ + Fri, 27 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0500 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/cms-acute-hospital-care-at-home/ + We&rsquo;re requesting data from a recent CMS program &ldquo;providing eligible hospitals with unprecedented regulatory flexibilities to treat eligible patients in their homes.” + + + + Boating Accident Report Database + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/uscg-boating-accident-report-database/ + Fri, 27 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0500 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/uscg-boating-accident-report-database/ + We&rsquo;re requesting the Coast Guard&rsquo;s national database of recreational boating accidents. + + + + Elevated Blood Lead Levels In Public Housing + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/hud-elevated-blood-lead-level-tracker/ + Thu, 26 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0500 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/hud-elevated-blood-lead-level-tracker/ + We&rsquo;re requesting the database HUD uses to track elevated blood lead levels in children living in public and voucher-based housing. + + + + DOI Data Inventories + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/doi-data-inventories/ + Thu, 29 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0500 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/doi-data-inventories/ + We&rsquo;re requesting Department of the Interior records describing its inventories of data and &ldquo;major information systems.&rdquo; + + + + Work Stoppages + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/fmcs-work-stoppages/ + Mon, 26 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0500 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/fmcs-work-stoppages/ + We&rsquo;re requesting data collected by federal mediators on the characteristics of work stoppages (strikes and lockouts). + + + + Oil Spill Response Costs + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/oil-spill-response-costs/ + Wed, 30 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0500 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/oil-spill-response-costs/ + We&rsquo;re requesting data related to the costs of oil spill responses, collected through several Coast Guard forms. + + + + USDA Food Purchases + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/usda-food-purchases/ + Wed, 30 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0500 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/usda-food-purchases/ + We&rsquo;re requesting the database that USDA uses to track food purchased for the National School Lunch Program and other major initiatives. + + + + EEOC Integrated Mission System Documentation + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/eeoc-ims-documentation/ + Tue, 29 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0500 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/eeoc-ims-documentation/ + We&rsquo;re requesting documentation of the main database that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission uses to track discrimination complaints and investigations. + + + + Lead Paint Remediation In Public Housing + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/lead-based-paint-response-tracker/ + Tue, 29 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0500 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/lead-based-paint-response-tracker/ + We&rsquo;re requesting the database HUD uses to track progress abating lead-based paint hazards in public housing. + + + + Long COVID Questionnaire Responses + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/long-covid-questionnaire-responses/ + Mon, 28 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0500 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/long-covid-questionnaire-responses/ + We&rsquo;re requesting questionnaire responses collected through the government&rsquo;s flagship study of adults with Long COVID, part the billion-dollar RECOVER Initiative. + + + + Automated Targeting System Documentation + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/automated-targeting-system-documentation/ + Mon, 31 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/automated-targeting-system-documentation/ + We&rsquo;re requesting documentation of a major Customs and Border Protection database. + + + + Unaccompanied Children: Oversight Records + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/unaccompanied-children-oversight-records/ + Fri, 28 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/unaccompanied-children-oversight-records/ + We&rsquo;re requesting Office of Refugee Resettlement records relating to the care of unaccompanied children. + + + + EPA Risk Management Program Database + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/epa-risk-management-program/ + Thu, 27 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/epa-risk-management-program/ + We&rsquo;re requesting the EPA&rsquo;s Risk Management Program (RMP) database, which contains risk management plans and accident histories submitted by &ldquo;facilities that use extremely hazardous substances.&rdquo; + + + + Federal Inmate Complaints + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/federal-inmate-complaints/ + Thu, 27 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/federal-inmate-complaints/ + We&rsquo;re requesting data stored in one particular component of the Bureau of Prison&rsquo;s SENTRY database — records that track inmates&rsquo; formal complaints and the agency&rsquo;s responses. + + + + SSVF Satisfaction Surveys + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/ssvf-satisfaction-surveys/ + Thu, 27 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/ssvf-satisfaction-surveys/ + We&rsquo;re requesting data from the satisfaction surveys that providers in the VA&rsquo;s Supportive Services for Veteran Families program must send to recently-exited participants. + + + + Public Housing Inspections + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/public-housing-inspections/ + Fri, 23 Sep 2022 00:00:04 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/public-housing-inspections/ + We&rsquo;re requesting a HUD database that contains all the inspections of public housing properties in the US, including each property&rsquo;s detailed scores and deficiencies. + + + + FEMA Disaster Housing + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/fema-disaster-housing/ + Fri, 23 Sep 2022 00:00:02 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/fema-disaster-housing/ + We&rsquo;re requesting the database that FEMA uses to track the &ldquo;direct housing&rdquo; assistance it provides to people affected by major disasters. + + + + Radiation Exposure Compensation Claims + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/radiation-exposure-compensation/ + Fri, 23 Sep 2022 00:00:02 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/radiation-exposure-compensation/ + We&rsquo;re requesting data on all Radiation Exposure Compensation Act claims filed, as well as the government&rsquo;s handling of those claims. + + + + Student Loan Data Documentation + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/student-loan-data-documentation/ + Fri, 23 Sep 2022 00:00:01 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/student-loan-data-documentation/ + We&rsquo;re requesting database documentation for several major Department of Education systems that track student loans. + + + + Theft and Loss of Controlled Substances + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/controlled-substance-theft-and-loss/ + Fri, 23 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/controlled-substance-theft-and-loss/ + We&rsquo;re requesting database records from the DEA&rsquo;s Theft Loss Reporting system, which collects information about controlled substances that have gone missing. + + + + diff --git a/public/requests/ssvf-satisfaction-surveys/index.html b/public/requests/ssvf-satisfaction-surveys/index.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fac6069 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/requests/ssvf-satisfaction-surveys/index.html @@ -0,0 +1,168 @@ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + The Data Liberation Project — SSVF Satisfaction Surveys + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
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    The Department of Veterans Affairs’ Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) program awards grants “to selected private non-profit organizations and consumer cooperatives that will assist very low-income Veteran families residing in or transitioning to permanent housing.”

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    In order “[t]o ensure that Veteran families receiving supportive services under the SSVF Program are receiving quality services, the grantee must give a VA-designated satisfaction survey to each participant within 30 days of the participant’s pending exit from the grantee’s program.”

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    Those satisfaction surveys are considered part of an official “information collection,” approved by the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs under OMB Control Number 2900-0757. According to the VA, a contractor collects the survey data “will provide an analysis of data by grantee, along with a collated national report.” The contractor’s website also notes that its responsibilities include “[p]rovid[ing] data in an exportable format that allows the VA to share data with grantees and other stakeholders.”

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    Our FOIA request 📄 to the VA seeks all SSVF survey data records the contractor has provided to the agency, plus all relevant database documentation.

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    • + Records Made Publicly Available • On August 17, 2023, the DLP made the records obtained through this FOIA request available to the public, along with DLP-written documentation. +
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    • + Records Provided • On July 13–17, 2023, the VA provided records to the Data Liberation Project 📄, consisting of three Excel documents containing survey response data, an Excel document containing a data dictionary, and various PDF reports. The Data Liberation Project began preparing the records for release. +
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    • + Fee Waiver Appeal Granted • On December 27, 2022, the VA’s Office of General Counsel emailed a letter 📄 granting the Data Liberation Project’s fee waiver appeal, on the basis that “This office did not process your appeal of the fees within the statutory time requirements.” +
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    • + Fee Waiver Appeal Acknowledged • On November 9, 2022, the VA’s Office of General Counsel emailed a letter 📄 acknowledging the Data Liberation Project’s appeal of the VA’s initial denial of a fee waiver for this request. The appeal has been assigned case number 162878. +
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    • + Request Acknowledged, Placed on “Complex Track,” Fee Waiver Denied; Appealing • On November 8, 2022, the VA emailed an acknowledgment letter 📄. It noted that the request has been assigned to the Veterans Health Administration’s Central Office and placed on the “complex” processing track. It also denied the Data Liberation Project’s request for a fee waiver, on the grounds that “it does not contain sufficient detail to meet the public interest requirement, as you do not specify how the requested information is likely to contribute significantly to the public’s understanding of VHA’s operations or activities given the amount of information publicly available as referenced by you as well as other publicly available Supportive Services for Veterans Families (SSVF) documents such as their annual reports which does include a section on the satisfaction of Veterans with their SSVF provider.” The Data Liberation Project submitted an appeal of this decision later the same day via email. +
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The Data Liberation Project began preparing the records for release. + + + + Fee Waiver Appeal Granted + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/ssvf-satisfaction-surveys/#update-fee-waiver-appeal-granted + Tue, 27 Dec 2022 08:28:00 -0500 + The Data Liberation Project + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/ssvf-satisfaction-surveys/#update-fee-waiver-appeal-granted + On December 27, 2022, the VA&rsquo;s Office of General Counsel <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23557285-2022-12-27-singer-vine-162878-remand-letter">emailed a letter 📄</a> granting the Data Liberation Project&rsquo;s fee waiver appeal, on the basis that &ldquo;This office did not process your appeal of the fees within the statutory time requirements.&rdquo; + + + + Fee Waiver Appeal Acknowledged + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/ssvf-satisfaction-surveys/#update-fee-waiver-appeal-acknowledged + Wed, 09 Nov 2022 08:34:00 -0500 + The Data Liberation Project + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/ssvf-satisfaction-surveys/#update-fee-waiver-appeal-acknowledged + On November 9, 2022, the VA&rsquo;s Office of General Counsel <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23291329-2022-11-09-acknowledgment-of-fee-waiver-denial-appeal-singer-vine-162878">emailed a letter 📄</a> acknowledging the Data Liberation Project&rsquo;s appeal of the VA&rsquo;s initial denial of a fee waiver for this request. The appeal has been assigned case number 162878. + + + + Request Acknowledged, Placed on "Complex Track," Fee Waiver Denied; Appealing + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/ssvf-satisfaction-surveys/#update-request-acknowledged-placed-on-complex-track-fee-waiver-denied-appealing + Tue, 08 Nov 2022 08:42:00 -0500 + The Data Liberation Project + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/ssvf-satisfaction-surveys/#update-request-acknowledged-placed-on-complex-track-fee-waiver-denied-appealing + On November 8, 2022, the VA <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23288889-2022-11-08-23-00617-f-acknowledgment-letter">emailed an acknowledgment letter 📄</a>. It noted that the request has been assigned to the Veterans Health Administration’s Central Office and placed on the “complex” processing track. It also denied the Data Liberation Project’s request for a fee waiver, on the grounds that “it does not contain sufficient detail to meet the public interest requirement, as you do not specify how the requested information is likely to contribute significantly to the public’s understanding of VHA’s operations or activities given the amount of information publicly available as referenced by you as well as other publicly available Supportive Services for Veterans Families (SSVF) documents such as their annual reports which does include a section on the satisfaction of Veterans with their SSVF provider.” The Data Liberation Project submitted an appeal of this decision later the same day via email. + + + + + diff --git a/public/requests/student-loan-cancer-treatment-deferments/index.html b/public/requests/student-loan-cancer-treatment-deferments/index.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5bf67c4 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/requests/student-loan-cancer-treatment-deferments/index.html @@ -0,0 +1,163 @@ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + The Data Liberation Project — Student Loan Cancer Treatment Deferments + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
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    Department of Education’s Cancer Treatment Deferment Request form (OMB No. 1845-0154) allows student loan borrowers to request “deferment on [their] eligible loans and forbearance on [their] ineligible loans during cancer treatment and for 6 months after.”

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    Spreadsheets published by the Department of Education suggest that its Direct Loan and Federal Family Education Loan portfolios each have loans under cancer treatment deferment for fewer than 5,000 borrowers. The precise numbers are not possible to discern, however, due to the spreadsheets appearing to round to the nearest 10,000; the true values could be anywhere between 0 and 4,999.

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    Even if those spreadsheets did contain precise numbers, they would lack many details of public interest, such as the number of borrowers/loans denied the deferrals, the amounts and types of loans for denied and approved deferrals, and the geographic distribution of deferral requestors.

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    Our FOIA request 📄 to the Department of Education seeks database records referring to submissions of the deferment request form, excluding personally-identifiable information but including the Department’s actions in response to the requests.

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    • + “No Records” Response • On October 11, 2023, the Department of Education emailed its initial response 📄. “After a thorough search, no responsive records were located,” according to the letter. “Cancer treatment deferment applications are not received by FSA systems. While FSA typically receives data from the servicers about those borrowers who are in an approved cancer related deferment, no borrowers have been in a cancer related deferment since March 2020, because all borrowers are placed into the COVID forbearance.” +
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    • + Fee Waiver Appeal Successful, Waiver Granted • On May 15, 2023, the Department of Education emailed a letter 📄 granting the Data Liberation Project a fee waiver for this request, agreeing with the DLP’s May 11 appeal and overturning the agency’s initial fee waiver denial. +
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    • + Fee Waiver Denial Appealed, Appeal Acknowledged • On May 11, 2023, the Data Liberation Project wrote an email appealing the April 28 fee waiver denial. On the same day, the Department of Education emailed a letter 📄 acknowledging the appeal. +
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    • + Request Acknowledged, Fee Waiver Denied • On April 28, 2023, the Department of Education acknowledged this request and emailed a letter 📄 denying the Data Liberation Project’s request for a fee waiver, on the grounds that “you have failed to provide sufficient information to demonstrate your entitlement to a waiver of processing fees. More specifically, justification has not been provided to explain how the requested records would contribute significant information to the public’s understanding of the Department’s operations. You have also not provided any evidence demonstrating public interest in the documents.” +
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    The Department of Education recently published “system of records notices” relating to four key databases that track information about student loans:

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    Our FOIA request 📄 seeks all records that document these systems, such as database diagrams and user guides. This differs from the other requests in our initial batch of FOIAs, which also seek the database contents themselves. Ultimately, we’d like to file requests for specific student loan data, but these systems are so sprawling that at first we’re just seeking to better understand what’s possible.

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    We also hope that these documents will shed light on important technical aspects of how the government undertakes its student loan operations and oversight.

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    • + 20-Day Notification • On October 31, 2022, the Department of Education emailed a 20-day-notification letter 📄 regarding this request, noting that “we are unable to provide an estimated completion date, but intend to provide records on a rolling basis as they become available.” +
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    The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), part of the Administration for Children & Families (ACF), is officially responsible for the care of every unaccompanied child, “defined as a child who has no lawful immigration status in the United States; has not attained 18 years of age; and, with respect to whom, there is no parent or legal guardian in the United States, or no parent or legal guardian in the United States available to provide care and physical custody.”

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    ORR monitors the care facilities it funds, and also requires those facilities to submit paperwork when certain types of incidents occur.

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    Our FOIA request 📄 to ACF seeks all records collected through ten particular forms, from two OMB-approved “information collection” packages, with the exception of personally-identifiable information:

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    • Significant Incident Report (SIR) and Addendum (Form A-10B): “This instrument is used by ORR care provider programs to inform ORR of situations that affect, but do not immediately threaten, the safety and well-being of a child.”
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    • Sexual Abuse Significant Incident Report (SA/SIR) and Addendum (Form A-10C): “This instrument is used by ORR care provider programs to inform ORR of allegations of sexual harassment, sexual abuse, and inappropriate sexual behavior that occurred while the UC was in ORR custody.”
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    From OMB 0970-0564 (Please see update below re. the narrowing of this request’s scope):

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    • + Records Published • On October 12, 2023, the Data Liberation Project published the records received through this request, along with documentation and a note about the DLP’s concerns about the records’ completeness. +
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    • + Records Provided, DLP Processing • On September 7, 2023, ACF completed its provision of the records requested (per the narrowed scope), in the form of a series of spreadsheets, each representing a table in the UC Portal. The Data Liberation Project is examining, documenting, and processing the records for public release. +
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    The US Coast Guard (USCG) maintains the Boating Accident Report Database (BARD), which serves as a central, national database of recreational boating accidents. The data come from submissions of CG-3865, a form that boat operators must file when:

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    as a result of an occurrence that involves the vessel or its equipment: (1) A person dies; (2) A person is injured and requires medical treatment beyond first aid; (3) Damage to vessels and other property totals $2,000 or more or there is a complete loss of any vessel; (4) A person disappears from the vessel under circumstances that indicate death or injury.

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    The reports (and database) include details about each accident, death, injury, and vessel involved. To learn more, see the agency’s Privacy Impact Assessment for the database, which provides helpful information about the data collection and contents.

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    Our FOIA request 📄 seeks full copy of the database, minus fields containing personally-identifiable information. It also seeks all relevant database documentation.

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    Similar copies of the database have been previously been released via FOIA (e.g., to NICAR and MuckRock’s Michael Morisy), but the Data Liberation Project is not aware of any publicly-accessible copies containing data from recent years.

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    If you’d like to get a head-start understanding the data and working with it, you can explore the data from 1995–2012, obtained by MuckRock and converted to CSVs by the Data Liberation Project.

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    This request is a collaboration with Data Liberation Project volunteer Sayli Benadikar.

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    The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is an agency of the US Department of Agriculture. Its Investigation Tracking and Enforcement Management System (ITEMS) “is a Web Based information system, hosted at [the National Information Technology Center], for tracking analyzing and monitoring investigation information of alleged APHIS violations from discovery through final judgment.”

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    The system supports the work of APHIS’s Investigative and Enforcement Services branch, which enforces a range of laws, including the Animal Welfare Act, the Animal Health Protection Act, and Horse Protection Act.

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    Our FOIA request 📄 seeks database records from ITEMS on closed cases, including the subjects of investigation, actions taken, dollar amounts of penalties, and other key details. The request also seeks documentation of the database.

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    44 U.S. Code § 3511(a) mandates that “the head of each agency shall, to the maximum extent practicable, develop and maintain a comprehensive data inventory that accounts for all data assets created by, collected by, under the control or direction of, or maintained by the agency.” These comprehensive data inventories have specific requirements, are distinct from “data catalogs,” and are not restricted to public datasets.

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    Another portion of federal law, 44 U.S. Code § 3505(c), requires that “[t]he head of each agency shall develop and maintain an inventory of major information systems (including major national security systems) operated by or under the control of such agency.”

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    Our FOIA request 📄 to the Department of Agriculture (USDA) seeks all records that contribute to the agency’s fulfillment of those two requirements.

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    Notably, the USDA is listed as ones of the “contributing agencies” to an April 2022 report underscoring the importance of agency data inventories.

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    Although agency does publish a listing of datasets via https://www.usda.gov/data.json, that file appears to be substantially incomplete. As evidence: Only three agencies of the USDA (Natural Resources Conservation Service, the Farm Service Agency, and Rural Development) appear to have listed more than one non-public dataset; several agencies (such as the Rural Utilities Service and Rural Housing Service) appear not to be represented even in the public datasets; and some agencies are represented by far fewer datasets than seem to be realistic (for example, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, which appears to have contributed only 3 entries to the file).

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    Note: The Data Liberation Project’s initial attempt to submit this request through the USDA’s FOIA portal appears to have failed; we resubmitted it February 7, 2023.

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    As part of its work supporting the National School Lunch Program, Commodity Supplemental Food Program, and other major nutrition food programs, the Department of Agriculture (USDA) purchases large amounts of food and food commodities. It tracks these purchases through its Web Based Supply Chain Management system (WBSCM).

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    “On a yearly basis, WBSCM directly supports the order, procurement, and delivery of over 6.5 billion pounds of American farm food commodities with a value in excess of $4 billion,” according to the agency.

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    A recent Government Accountability Office report demonstrates the public interest of WBSCM data, which the authors analyzed to assess USDA’s efficacy providing seafood to students through the National School Lunch Program.

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    Our FOIA request 📄 to USDA seeks all database records stored within WBSCM, plus all relevant database documentation.

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    This request is a collaboration with journalist Molly Longman.

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    The USDA’s National Organics Program “launched the COMPLIANCE Database in March 2019," according to the department’s Organic Oversight and Enforcement Update Summary of Activities a couple of months later. “This new tool allows the team to better track case progress and more quickly identify patterns and relationships across complaints.”

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    According to a subsequent report, the system received 850 “complaints and the inquiries” in fiscal year 2021; of those, the agency deemed it necessary to investigate 58%. (The other 42% were “actually simple questions about an operation or the organic regulations, which can be resolved quickly with educational information.”)

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    Our FOIA request 📄 seeks a comprehensive set of complaint, investigation, and outcome records from this database, as well as documentation concerning the database’s structure and interpretation.

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    This request is a collaboration with Aaron Gordon of Motherboard.

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    Our FOIA request 📄 to USPS seeks two related sets of database records:

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      Database records corresponding to all PS Form 4241-A (“Rural Route Evaluation”) outputs generated, excluding employee names and employee IDs. Per a 2012 guide compiled by the National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association (NRLCA), “The USPS Integrated Business Solutions Services Center (IBSSC) prints and issues PS Form 4241-A to carriers on rural routes as a result of national counts, special counts, or a change in route data initiated by the submission of PS Form 4003, Official Rural Route Description.”

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      Database records corresponding to all PS Form 4003 (“Official Rural Route Description”) submissions. Per the same guide cited above, this form “is utilized to submit changes to route data for reasons other than changes resulting from a mail count.” It “is submitted to adjust a route evaluation based upon changes to active boxes (centralized and regular), stops, weekly dismounts, weekly dismount distance, lock pouch allowances, extension (temporary route deviations for more than 30 days), official route re-measurements, amended counts, new routes created, adjustments for seasonal routes, the assignment of a government vehicle, etc.”

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    Our request also seeks all relevant database documentation.

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    We’ve submitted this request in the context of USPS rolling out the Rural Route Evaluated Compensation System (RRECS), which the NRLCA says would result in pay cuts for two-thirds of rural mail routes reevaluated by the system.

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    Rural mail carriers have reported confusion and frustration with the changes, and allege it contains substantial errors, yet USPS has shared little information publicly that would allow independent observers to evaluate the changes introduced by the system, or to compare them to historical, pre-RRECS route compensation changes.

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    • + Appeal Partly Granted • On March 1, 2024, the USPS provided an appeal determination 📄, upholding the agency’s decision not to provide the data records requested but requiring the agency to conduct a search for records responsive to the documentation portion of the request, which “appears […] was not conducted”. +
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    • + Request Denied • On November 14, 2023, USPS emailed a letter fully denying access to the requested records 📄. The agency argues that the records are exempt under regulations permitting USPS to withhold “information of a commercial nature”. +
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The appeal has been assigned tracking number 2024-APP-00034. + + + + Request Denied + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/usps-rural-route-evaluations/#update-request-denied + Tue, 14 Nov 2023 08:02:00 -0500 + The Data Liberation Project + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/usps-rural-route-evaluations/#update-request-denied + On November 14, 2023, USPS emailed a <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24401418-2023-11-14-jsingervine-foia-2023-fpro-01656">letter fully denying access to the requested records 📄</a>. The agency argues that the records are exempt under regulations permitting USPS to withhold &ldquo;information of a commercial nature&rdquo;. + + + + Request Acknowledged + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/usps-rural-route-evaluations/#update-request-acknowledged + Tue, 23 May 2023 09:40:00 -0400 + The Data Liberation Project + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/usps-rural-route-evaluations/#update-request-acknowledged + On May 23, 2023, USPS emailed <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23821572-2023-05-23-ro-acknowledgement-letter">a letter 📄</a> acknowledging this request. + + + + + diff --git a/public/rss.xml b/public/rss.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6ccbf33 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/rss.xml @@ -0,0 +1,695 @@ + + + + The Data Liberation Project + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/ + Recent content on The Data Liberation Project + Hugo -- gohugo.io + en-us + Wed, 18 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0400 + + Federal Inmate Deaths + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/bop-federal-inmate-deaths/ + Wed, 18 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/bop-federal-inmate-deaths/ + A spreadsheet of each federal inmate death since 2005, including demographic and cause-of-death information. + + + + Boating Accident Report Database + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/uscg-boating-accident-report-database/ + Mon, 12 Aug 2024 20:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/uscg-boating-accident-report-database/ + Data on 58,430 boating accidents that occurred in 2009–2023 and were reported to state authorities. + + + + Oil Spill Response Costs + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/documents/uscg-oil-spill-response-costs/ + Mon, 12 Aug 2024 00:16:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/documents/uscg-oil-spill-response-costs/ + Incident reports, contractor authorizations, invoices, and other documents related to Coast Guard–administered oil spill responses. + + + + Federal Inmate Deaths + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/bop-federal-inmate-deaths/ + Fri, 09 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/bop-federal-inmate-deaths/ + We’re data records representing each federal inmate death from 2005 to the present. + + + + Excess Defense Article Transfers + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/dod-excess-defense-article-transfers/ + Mon, 22 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/dod-excess-defense-article-transfers/ + We’re requesting an updated copy of the Department of Defense&rsquo;s Excess Defense Articles transfer database. + + + + Federal Inmate Complaints + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/federal-inmate-complaints/ + Tue, 09 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/federal-inmate-complaints/ + Data on 1.78 million complaint/appeal submissions filed by federal prison inmates between January 2000 and late May 2024, spanning nearly 1 million distinct cases. + + + + Commercial Fishing Incident Database + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/niosh-commercial-fishing-incident-database/ + Mon, 08 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/niosh-commercial-fishing-incident-database/ + A national database of “fatalities and vessel disasters that occur in the US fishing industry.” + + + + Army Slot Machines + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/dod-army-slot-machines/ + Tue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/dod-army-slot-machines/ + We&rsquo;re requesting detailing the presence, operation, and finances of slot machines on military property. + + + + National Adult Maltreatment Reporting System + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/national-adult-maltreatment-reporting-system/ + Tue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/national-adult-maltreatment-reporting-system/ + Agency- and case-level data from “the first comprehensive, national reporting system for adult protective services programs.” + + + + Housing Discrimination Complaints and Cases + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/hud-fair-housing-complaints-and-cases/ + Wed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/hud-fair-housing-complaints-and-cases/ + We’re requesting records from HUD databases that track complaints by people alleging housing discrimination and the agency&rsquo;s inquiries into those cases. + + + + FEMA Disaster Housing Database Documentation + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/documents/fema-disaster-housing/ + Tue, 23 Apr 2024 00:01:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/documents/fema-disaster-housing/ + Documentation of database systems FEMA uses to track the “direct housing” assistance the agency provides people affected by major disasters. + + + + USDA Food Purchase Database Documentation + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/documents/usda-food-purchases/ + Tue, 23 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/documents/usda-food-purchases/ + Records documenting the USDA&rsquo;s Web Based Supply Chain Management System, used for coordinating the purchase and distribution of federal food and commodity orders. + + + + Firearm Background Check Counts + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/nics-firearm-background-checks/ + Sun, 14 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/nics-firearm-background-checks/ + Monthly counts of firearm background checks run by the FBI by month, state, and firearm type. + + + + USDA Organic Program Enforcement + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/usda-organic-program-enforcement/ + Tue, 09 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/usda-organic-program-enforcement/ + Outcomes of investigations spurred by complaints submitted to the USDA&rsquo;s National Organic Program. + + + + Water Use Inventory Records + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/usgs-water-use-inventory/ + Mon, 08 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/usgs-water-use-inventory/ + Site-level records from the USGS&rsquo;s water use inventory, indicating volumes of and types of water conveyed in a given year. + + + + Political Candidates’ Airline Credit + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/dot-political-candidate-airline-credit/ + Tue, 02 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/dot-political-candidate-airline-credit/ + We’re requesting records submitted by airlines regarding credit they&rsquo;ve extended to political candidates for federal office. + + + + Medicare "Level 2" Appeals + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/cms-medicare-appeals-level-2/ + Thu, 28 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/cms-medicare-appeals-level-2/ + We’re requesting database records tracking the circumstances and outcomes of patients&rsquo; appeals of Medicare insurance decisions. + + + + Medicare Appeals System (MAS) Documentation + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/cms-medicare-appeals-system-documentation/ + Thu, 28 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/cms-medicare-appeals-system-documentation/ + We’re requesting records that document the functionality of CMS’s Medicare Appeals System. + + + + TSA Complaint Counts + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/tsa-complaint-counts/ + Wed, 21 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0500 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/tsa-complaint-counts/ + Monthly counts of Transportation Security Administration traveler complaints by airport, category, and subcategory. + + + + USDA Organic Program Enforcement + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/usda-organic-program-enforcement/ + Mon, 18 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0500 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/usda-organic-program-enforcement/ + We’re requesting records from the National Organic Program’s enforcement database. + + + + Animal Welfare Investigations (APHIS ITEMS) + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/usda-aphis-investigations-and-enforcement/ + Thu, 09 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0500 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/usda-aphis-investigations-and-enforcement/ + We’re requesting records from Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service’s Investigation Tracking and Enforcement Management System (ITEMS). + + + + Unaccompanied Child Incident Reports + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/unaccompanied-children-oversight-records/ + Thu, 12 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/unaccompanied-children-oversight-records/ + Incident reports submitted by government-funded facilities caring for unaccompanied immigrant children. + + + + CFPB Enforcement Relief & Penalties + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/cfpb-enforcement-matters/ + Wed, 11 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/cfpb-enforcement-matters/ + Amounts and dates of court-ordered relief and penalties in Consumer Financial Protection Bureau enforcement matters. + + + + Peace Corps Resignation Counts + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/peace-corps-resignations/ + Tue, 10 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/peace-corps-resignations/ + Counts of resigned Peace Corps volunteers by post and resignation reasons. + + + + DOD Child and Domestic Abuse Incidents + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/dod-child-and-domestic-abuse-incidents/ + Fri, 06 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/dod-child-and-domestic-abuse-incidents/ + We&rsquo;re requesting records from the Department of Defense&rsquo;s child and domestic abuse incident reporting system. + + + + Collective Bargaining Notices (FMCS F-7) + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/fmcs-f-7-notices/ + Fri, 25 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/fmcs-f-7-notices/ + We&rsquo;re requesting detailed data on notices of &ldquo;upcoming collective bargaining&rdquo; submitted to federal labor mediators. + + + + Veterans Affairs SSVF Survey Data + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/va-ssvf-survey-data/ + Thu, 17 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/va-ssvf-survey-data/ + Data and reports from satisfaction surveys evaluating VA Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) program providers. + + + + USDA Data Inventories + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/documents/usda-data-inventories/ + Fri, 04 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/documents/usda-data-inventories/ + A spreadsheet listing nearly 3,000 active, retired, and proposed Department of Agriculture databases and information systems. + + + + “Acute Hospital Care at Home” Data + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/cms-acute-hospital-care-at-home/ + Tue, 25 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/cms-acute-hospital-care-at-home/ + Waiver applications and weekly/monthly reporting metrics from hospitals participating in the Acute Hospital Care at Home program. + + + + DOL File Plans and EIS Listings + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/documents/dol-file-plans-and-eis-listings/ + Wed, 05 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/documents/dol-file-plans-and-eis-listings/ + Department of Labor files describing the physical/digital locations of key records, plus listings of the agency&rsquo;s major &ldquo;electronic information systems&rdquo;. + + + + Defense Sexual Assault Incident Database (DSAID) + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/dod-sexual-assault-incident-database/ + Mon, 03 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/dod-sexual-assault-incident-database/ + We’re requesting data from the Department of Defense&rsquo;s &ldquo;authoritative, centralized case-level database used to collect and maintain information on sexual assaults involving members of the Armed Forces.&rdquo; + + + + CFPB Enforcement Matters + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/cfpb-enforcement-matters/ + Tue, 30 May 2023 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/cfpb-enforcement-matters/ + We&rsquo;re requesting database records representing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau&rsquo;s enforcement efforts. + + + + USPS Rural Route Evaluations + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/usps-rural-route-evaluations/ + Mon, 22 May 2023 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/usps-rural-route-evaluations/ + We&rsquo;re requesting data the Postal Service uses in determining compensation for rural mail carriers. + + + + Theft/Loss of Controlled Substances + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/dea-theft-and-loss-counts/ + Tue, 16 May 2023 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/dea-theft-and-loss-counts/ + Counts and quantities of controlled substance and regulated chemical thefts/losses reported to the DEA, by state, business activity, and loss type, and year. + + + + Bills of Lading (Cargo Manifests) + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/cbp-bills-of-lading/ + Thu, 27 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/cbp-bills-of-lading/ + We&rsquo;re requesting comprehensive records on the cargo shipped into and out of the United States. + + + + Public Housing Tenant Terminations + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/hud-tenant-terminations/ + Thu, 27 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/hud-tenant-terminations/ + We&rsquo;re requesting data on public housing authorities&rsquo; removals of tenants from public and subsidized housing. + + + + Student Loan Cancer Treatment Deferments + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/student-loan-cancer-treatment-deferments/ + Thu, 27 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/student-loan-cancer-treatment-deferments/ + We&rsquo;re requesting data on cancer treatment deferment requests by borrowers of student loans. + + + + CFBP Enforcement Database Documentation + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/documents/cfpb-enforcement-database-documentation/ + Fri, 14 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/documents/cfpb-enforcement-database-documentation/ + A six-page document describing the structure of <code>ENForce</code>, CFPB&rsquo;s “enforcement matter management system.” + + + + Peace Corps Resignations + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/peace-corps-resignations/ + Fri, 31 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/peace-corps-resignations/ + We&rsquo;re requesting database records from the Peace Corps indicating volunteers&rsquo; reasons for resignation. + + + + Military Housing: Environmental Health & Safety + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/dod-military-housing-environmental-health/ + Thu, 30 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/dod-military-housing-environmental-health/ + We’re requesting data from the &ldquo;environmental health and safety module&rdquo; of the database the Department of Defense uses to track its housing assets. + + + + DOL File Plans and EIS Listings + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/dol-file-plans-and-eis-listings/ + Mon, 27 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/dol-file-plans-and-eis-listings/ + We&rsquo;re requesting all Department of Labor &ldquo;file plans&rdquo; and electronic information system listings. + + + + Hazmat Transportation Incident Reports + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/phmsa-hazmat-incident-reports/ + Tue, 28 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0500 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/phmsa-hazmat-incident-reports/ + Decades of hazardous material transportation incidents reported to the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration via Form <code>5800.1</code>. + + + + EEOC Integrated Mission System Documentation + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/documents/eeoc-ims-documentation/ + Thu, 23 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0500 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/documents/eeoc-ims-documentation/ + Documentation of the main database that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission uses to track discrimination complaints and investigations. + + + + EPA Risk Management Program Database + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/epa-risk-management-program-database/ + Tue, 21 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0500 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/epa-risk-management-program-database/ + Data from the Risk Management Plans submitted by US facilities handling certain hazardous substances. + + + + APHIS Inspection Reports + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/aphis-inspection-reports/ + Mon, 20 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0500 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/aphis-inspection-reports/ + Data on Animal Welfare Act inspections of commercial animal dealers, exhibitors (such as zoos), research facilities, and transporters. + + + + National Adult Maltreatment Reporting System + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/acl-adult-maltreatment-reporting-system/ + Fri, 17 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0500 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/acl-adult-maltreatment-reporting-system/ + We’re requesting data from “the first comprehensive, national reporting system for adult protective services programs.” + + + + CFPB Enforcement Database Documentation + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/cfpb-enforcement-database-documentation/ + Thu, 16 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0500 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/cfpb-enforcement-database-documentation/ + We&rsquo;re requesting documentation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau&rsquo;s database tracking its enforcement efforts. + + + + National Water Use Inventory + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/doi-water-use-inventory/ + Thu, 16 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0500 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/doi-water-use-inventory/ + We&rsquo;re requesting a copy of the “comprehensive national water use inventory” mandated by Secure Water Act of 2009. + + + + FMCS Case Management System Schema + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/documents/fmcs-case-management-system-schema/ + Tue, 14 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0500 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/documents/fmcs-case-management-system-schema/ + A database schema provided by the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, appearing to document the agency&rsquo;s case management system. + + + + Commercial Fishing Incident Database + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/niosh-commercial-fishing-incident-database/ + Mon, 30 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0500 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/niosh-commercial-fishing-incident-database/ + We’re requesting a national database of “fatalities and vessel disasters that occur in the US fishing industry.” + + + + USDA Data Inventories + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/usda-data-inventories/ + Mon, 30 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0500 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/usda-data-inventories/ + We&rsquo;re requesting Department of Agriculture records describing its inventories of data and &ldquo;major information systems.&rdquo; + + + + “Acute Hospital Care at Home” Data + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/cms-acute-hospital-care-at-home/ + Fri, 27 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0500 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/cms-acute-hospital-care-at-home/ + We&rsquo;re requesting data from a recent CMS program &ldquo;providing eligible hospitals with unprecedented regulatory flexibilities to treat eligible patients in their homes.” + + + + Boating Accident Report Database + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/uscg-boating-accident-report-database/ + Fri, 27 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0500 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/uscg-boating-accident-report-database/ + We&rsquo;re requesting the Coast Guard&rsquo;s national database of recreational boating accidents. + + + + Elevated Blood Lead Levels In Public Housing + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/hud-elevated-blood-lead-level-tracker/ + Thu, 26 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0500 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/hud-elevated-blood-lead-level-tracker/ + We&rsquo;re requesting the database HUD uses to track elevated blood lead levels in children living in public and voucher-based housing. + + + + DOI Data Inventories + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/doi-data-inventories/ + Thu, 29 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0500 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/doi-data-inventories/ + We&rsquo;re requesting Department of the Interior records describing its inventories of data and &ldquo;major information systems.&rdquo; + + + + Work Stoppages + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/fmcs-work-stoppages/ + Mon, 26 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0500 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/fmcs-work-stoppages/ + We&rsquo;re requesting data collected by federal mediators on the characteristics of work stoppages (strikes and lockouts). + + + + Oil Spill Response Costs + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/oil-spill-response-costs/ + Wed, 30 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0500 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/oil-spill-response-costs/ + We&rsquo;re requesting data related to the costs of oil spill responses, collected through several Coast Guard forms. + + + + USDA Food Purchases + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/usda-food-purchases/ + Wed, 30 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0500 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/usda-food-purchases/ + We&rsquo;re requesting the database that USDA uses to track food purchased for the National School Lunch Program and other major initiatives. + + + + EEOC Integrated Mission System Documentation + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/eeoc-ims-documentation/ + Tue, 29 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0500 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/eeoc-ims-documentation/ + We&rsquo;re requesting documentation of the main database that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission uses to track discrimination complaints and investigations. + + + + Lead Paint Remediation In Public Housing + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/lead-based-paint-response-tracker/ + Tue, 29 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0500 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/lead-based-paint-response-tracker/ + We&rsquo;re requesting the database HUD uses to track progress abating lead-based paint hazards in public housing. + + + + Long COVID Questionnaire Responses + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/long-covid-questionnaire-responses/ + Mon, 28 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0500 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/long-covid-questionnaire-responses/ + We&rsquo;re requesting questionnaire responses collected through the government&rsquo;s flagship study of adults with Long COVID, part the billion-dollar RECOVER Initiative. + + + + Automated Targeting System Documentation + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/automated-targeting-system-documentation/ + Mon, 31 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/automated-targeting-system-documentation/ + We&rsquo;re requesting documentation of a major Customs and Border Protection database. + + + + Unaccompanied Children: Oversight Records + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/unaccompanied-children-oversight-records/ + Fri, 28 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/unaccompanied-children-oversight-records/ + We&rsquo;re requesting Office of Refugee Resettlement records relating to the care of unaccompanied children. + + + + EPA Risk Management Program Database + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/epa-risk-management-program/ + Thu, 27 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/epa-risk-management-program/ + We&rsquo;re requesting the EPA&rsquo;s Risk Management Program (RMP) database, which contains risk management plans and accident histories submitted by &ldquo;facilities that use extremely hazardous substances.&rdquo; + + + + Federal Inmate Complaints + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/federal-inmate-complaints/ + Thu, 27 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/federal-inmate-complaints/ + We&rsquo;re requesting data stored in one particular component of the Bureau of Prison&rsquo;s SENTRY database — records that track inmates&rsquo; formal complaints and the agency&rsquo;s responses. + + + + SSVF Satisfaction Surveys + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/ssvf-satisfaction-surveys/ + Thu, 27 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/ssvf-satisfaction-surveys/ + We&rsquo;re requesting data from the satisfaction surveys that providers in the VA&rsquo;s Supportive Services for Veteran Families program must send to recently-exited participants. + + + + Public Housing Inspections + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/public-housing-inspections/ + Fri, 23 Sep 2022 00:00:04 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/public-housing-inspections/ + We&rsquo;re requesting a HUD database that contains all the inspections of public housing properties in the US, including each property&rsquo;s detailed scores and deficiencies. + + + + FEMA Disaster Housing + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/fema-disaster-housing/ + Fri, 23 Sep 2022 00:00:02 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/fema-disaster-housing/ + We&rsquo;re requesting the database that FEMA uses to track the &ldquo;direct housing&rdquo; assistance it provides to people affected by major disasters. + + + + Radiation Exposure Compensation Claims + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/radiation-exposure-compensation/ + Fri, 23 Sep 2022 00:00:02 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/radiation-exposure-compensation/ + We&rsquo;re requesting data on all Radiation Exposure Compensation Act claims filed, as well as the government&rsquo;s handling of those claims. + + + + Student Loan Data Documentation + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/student-loan-data-documentation/ + Fri, 23 Sep 2022 00:00:01 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/student-loan-data-documentation/ + We&rsquo;re requesting database documentation for several major Department of Education systems that track student loans. + + + + Theft and Loss of Controlled Substances + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/controlled-substance-theft-and-loss/ + Fri, 23 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0400 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/controlled-substance-theft-and-loss/ + We&rsquo;re requesting database records from the DEA&rsquo;s Theft Loss Reporting system, which collects information about controlled substances that have gone missing. + + + + About + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/about/ + Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/about/ + The what, why, how, when, where, and who of the Data Liberation Project. + + + + Contact Information + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/contact/ + Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 + + https://www.data-liberation-project.org/contact/ + Feedback, questions, suggestions? 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