Federal Contractor Watchdog Sued Over FOIA Documents Policy
Porter Wells, Bloomberg, Feb. 26, 2018
A Labor Department subagency’s alleged office policy of using law-enforcement exemptions to withhold requested documents from outside parties has put it at odds with a public advocacy group, which filed a lawsuit over the matter on Feb. 26.
The DOL’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs is already dealing with complaints that it should be more transparent in its expectations and audits of federal contractor facilities as it carries out its mandate to enforce compliance with certain equal employment opportunity laws.
Public Citizen Inc., a nonprofit public interest advocacy and litigation organization, says that it filed Freedom of Information Act requests with the OFCCP to obtain copies of FOIA requests made by other parties for EEO-1 reports as well as any agency correspondence that followed those requests.
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