In their briefs, Mr. Lander, who represents parts of Brooklyn, and Transportation Alternatives argue that the department's reasoning for withholding information from victims' families is based on cases in which criminals filed Freedom of Information Act requests in an effort to determine how much the department knew about them.
Many tech companies make regular disclosures about these types of requests in an effort to be more transparent with their users, and, following the passage of the USA Freedom Act, more and more of these disclosures include national security letters.
His treatment of me and Carl McCall typified an approach which was invariably to stonewall information requests in an effort to delay or deny disclosures that might tarnish his name and record.
She'll monitor the activity of the local and county police forces once the national spotlight dims, and will learn the intricacies of public records requests in an effort to divine the funding sources and uses of military gear in the county.
The new budget request reflects an effort to address those weaknesses.
The Central Bank's monitoring request was an effort to prevent the shareholders from selling their assets, said the director of the city's properties department, Muhammad Naeim Khan.
The office said that only counties were authorized to seek such audits, and told reporters that the request was an effort to undermine voter confidence.
The government filed its request in an effort to investigate Mr. Khan regarding recent news reports in which he was said to have confessed to supplying Iran with information related to the nuclear program.
The major, Charles Day, has characterized the call, which he has said he made at Mr. Johnson's request, as an effort to make sure that Ms. Booker was all right, according to people with knowledge of his account.
In 1996, Republicans in Congress were critical of the F.B.I.'s willingness to hand over hundreds of dossiers, including those of prominent Republicans, that the Administration, apparently through crossed signals, had requested in an effort to update its security files.
