Parties handle the Information Act’s requests at Disease Control and Prevention Centers and the Food and Drug Administration was identified as part of Tuesday Cut off Order Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said multiple officials.
The process of fulfilling the FOIA requests from journalists, advocacy groups and others is an important way that the public gains access to public data and record information.
Two officials said all the workers in the CDC’s FOIA office were cut off. Two-thirds of the food and drug administration’s requests were cut off by the staff, the remaining 50.
“Most still do not process FOIA here they publish cases and other types,” an FDA official said who was not authorized to speak publicly.
It is unclear what will be the requests of hundreds of pending requests in front of the agencies.
“There is no employee for most types of FOIA requests,” the FDA official said.
Many FOIA workers were also released at the National Health Institutes, an official said, but not everything. No explanation for why some were cut off and others were in the job, the official said that the federal government had clearly violated the procedures of some employees on the basis of their military and federal services.
An HHS official said the goal of cutting a central place to handle the FOIA requests for the entire department, making it easier to submit their request to the public.
No final decision has been made on what the new FOIA process will look like HHS, but the official said their goal is to continue the task started by the staff.
Officials say that the public affairs shop led by Kennedy’s former publicity press secretary Stephanie Spier has made its raip tightening. Communication Is being issued by the health agency.
Department staff is already making more rigorous overseeing agencies publishing public information with unprecedented steps Control the scientific publishing In CDC
Communication workers are also among the harsh victims by these cuts, multiple officials said. The parties in the public issues of the CDC, the FDA and the health resources and services administration saw many or all the staff cut.
Earlier this month, a meeting of the White House mentioned a dozen communications team of the Kennedy department as an example of “Redundancy” “flowing”.
Kennedy has also criticized the FOIA reactions by the past administration, supporting the lawsuit to speed or widen the response of the record requests.
“Public Health Companies should be transparent. And if we want to bring back confidence in Americans, we need transparency,” Kennedy said at the Senate hearing in January.
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