Archive for 'OGIS Case Study'
Civil War-era Pension Records: An OGIS Case Study
When University of California–Los Angeles economics professor Dora Costa started looking at aging processes and extreme longevity, she knew military files of Civil War veterans would be crucial to her research. Costa planned to compare medical records and life histories of Civil War veterans with present-day veterans’ records for soldiers who lived to be at [...]
Posted by Corinna Zarek on November 19, 2012, under About OGIS, Best practices, OGIS Case Study.
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OGIS Case Study #1 – “I am pretty sure the Government has a file on me”
Many people believe that federal law enforcement agencies have some kind of investigatory file on them. The truth is that very few people have been investigated by an agency such as the FBI, but that doesn’t stop many people from requesting their own records from federal law enforcement agencies. (When an individual requests access to [...]
Posted by Carrie McGuire on August 5, 2011, under About FOIA, About OGIS, Alternative dispute resolution, Mediation services, OGIS Case Study, Ombudsman, Privacy, Records Management.
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