The Right to Know: Your Guide to Using and Defending Freedom of Information Law in the United States

The Right to Know: Your Guide to Using and Defending Freedom of Information Law in the United States sets out in plain language freedom-of-information best practices for ordinary citizens, activist organizations, journalists, bloggers, and lawyers.

Jacqueline Klosek, an expert in U.S. information law, educes practical lessons from dozens of case studies to show how readers can use freedom of information laws to protect themselves, but also to protect the environment, and public health and safety, as well as to expose governmental and corporate crime, waste, and corruption. Finally, the book shows American readers how, in contrast to what is going on in most democracies, their right to know is being progressively curtailed, why this is so dangerous to democracy, and what they can do to help reverse the alarming trend.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Klosek, Jacqueline
Published: 06/01/2009
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN: 9780313359279
Pages: 227
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 9.52h x 6.18w x 0.94d