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   Dave Rahardja (drahardja@sfba.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Mar-2025 10:54:55 JST Dave Rahardja

   Rep Jamie Raskin is encouraging people to send in #FOIA requests to #DOGE to demand an enumeration of what the department knows about each requester. Since DOGE is an official government agency, they are obliged to respond to these requests per the Federal Privacy Act of 1974. US District Judge Casey Cooper has affirmed this as well in a recent ruling.

   An explanation of the campaign, and a form letter ready for your customization is found here: https://jamieraskin.com/doge-privacy-act-requests/

   #resist #request #reject

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 13-Mar-2025 10:56:42 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Christopher Batty

     @topher_batty @drahardja
     Agreed, but then every rule not followed is yet another attack surface in the courts. And they will of course try to weasel out of court orders or ignore them, but that too takes work. No single grain of sand in the gears is the one that brings the whole machine down.

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     Christopher Batty (topher_batty@mastodon.acm.org)'s status on Thursday, 13-Mar-2025 10:56:43 JST Christopher Batty

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     @drahardja isn't this likely to just make them annoyed at FOIA and stop processing them altogether? I'm leery of strategies based on the assumption that they have to follow "the rules".