Description: The NFOIC disseminates an electronic newletter, The FOI Advocate, which will celebrate Right to Know Day by distributing a Sept. 28 Right to Know Day edition. E-mail Charles Davis, executive director of the NFOIC, at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for a copy.

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2. Organizer: National Security Archive, George Washington University
Date: September 28, 2005

Description: On the http://www.freedominfo.org site, the NSA is posting a collection of 25 news stories of freedom of information successes from around the world, showing how the release of government information has made news and hopefully providing journalists and all FOI advocates with ideas and models for making more news in the future. There are many more such stories, and the NSA would appreciate each of you letting them know any such story in your own country.

On the http://www.nsarchive.org site, the NSA is posting the formal letter to Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, requesting her to include formally in the annual country-by-country human rights reports that the State Department has produced ever since President Jimmy Carter ordered it, a section covering access to information as a human right. Such a section on the U.S. performance would of course show backsliding.

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3. Organizer: Electronic Privacy Information Center
Date: September 26-30, 2005
Event: This week EPIC posted new documents we obtained under the US FOI about the problems with the traveller screening program. These documents and EPIC's expression of support for the work of the Freedom of Information Advocates Network are available at http://www.epic.org/

Description: International Right to Know Day honors the global effort for openness in government. On this day in 2002, freedom of information organizations from around the world established the Freedom of Information Advocates Network. The coalition, now
comprised of more than 90 organizations on four continents, continues to work for the adoption of open government laws throughout the world and the recognition of the right to know as a fundamental human right.

EPIC Documents: Travelers Struggle With Watch List Errors

Documents (pdf, 2.2 mb) obtained by EPIC under the Freedom of Information Act reveal nearly a hundred complaints from airline passengers about the government's traveler screening program. The most common complaint from passengers is that they have been wrongly placed on a government watch list. For more information, see EPIC FOIA Note #8. For additional FOIA documents, see EPIC's Watch List FOIA page. (Sept. 27)

FOI Documents: http://www.epic.org/privacy/airtravel/foia/complaint_log.pdf

EPIC FOIA Note #8: http://www.epic.org/foia_notes/note8.html