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• Canada Access to Information
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• FOI Resources         FOI resources and information for each of the 50 states on the FOI Resources page of the National FOI Coalition's web site. There are also sections for federal and general FOI.
  
• Reporters Net on FOI
  
• Society Of Professional Journalists on FOI
  
• Electronic Frontier FOI Help
  
• University of Florida FOI Brochure
  
• FOI in California         The Freedom of Information Committee of the Society of Professsional Journalist's Northern California Chapter helps you with public records access and open government issues.
  
• Missouri Guide to FOI
  
• Fought's List of FOI Resources
  
• FBI FOIA Reading Room    Hundreds of documents released under FOI. With a useful alphabetical listing

Official federal sites:

• Federal Guide
• List of access officers   By department, a list of who to contact to get you access request done
• Using the access laws   Helpful guides and forms
• Federal government laws
• Recent access court decisions
• Canada's Access to Information Act 
  
  

Provinces:

• Nova Scotia's Access to Information Act 
  
  
• Manitoba Association for Access and Privacy     A  non-partisan, public interest group helping people understand and protect their rights. Its mission is to research, educate and report on privacy issues and freedom of information issues affecting Manitobans.
  
  
• Quebec - Guide en français
• Quebec - Liste des responsables
  
• Quebec - Guide English
• Quebec - List of access officers:
  
  
  

Resources:

• List of archived access requests Al Roberts provides an excellent database. Find outwhat others have requested and ask for the same material!
• Open Government Canada    Canadian coalition fighting for greater access to public information 
• Open Government's Form Letter
• BC Freedom of Information and Privacy Assocation An excellent guide with plenty of links
• Cabinet Confidences         Critical report of cabinet secrecy by Canada's Information Commissioner John Grace 
• "AIA Requester" programme             The Innu Nation (a First Nation based in Labrador, Canada) has prepared this Windows programme to speed up the writing and printing of your Access to Information Act requests. It also stores all of your requests. 

World: 

• International FOI Laws This website offers helpful links to resources,tips and official sites around the world, though it is not regularly updated.
• World Wide Web Site on Freedom of Information
• Public Law Gateway  (Australia)
• Rick Snell's personal web site  (Australia)
  

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