The Freedom OF information act (FOIA) gives the right to everyone to require entrance to documents of the executive (the government) of the United States of America (the USA). The law was signed on 4 July 1966 by president Lyndon B. Johnson and came into force one year later. The FOIA is the legislations work becoming green of the Ralph Nader to be owed. To the John on government it succeeded to water the bill, over which for a long time, so far that the law had hardly practical effects. Only amending of 1974 made the law an effective instrument.

Despite restrictions the FOIA obligates the state institutions to ensure to the public greatest possible and comprehensive entrance to the information. Administrative and judicial redresses are to the persons, to who the entrance to the recordings is refused, at the disposal.

The required recordings must be stated, it is it falls under the protection of one or several of the released categories, which are contained in the FOIA. Recordings, which generally do not have to be made accessible, are:

• rightfully kept secret material
• reduced kinds of purely internal affairs
• by other statute affairs protected against publication
• Commercial secrets or business or financial information, which come from individual persons and privileged or confidential are
• internal communication of the offices from the weighing process taking place before decisions
• Results of the work of lawyers or recordings of those clients
• Information, which would represent clearly not justified penetration into the personal
• Recordings, the laws make valid up to the degree that one of six special damage could result from the statement
• Bank investigations

Information liberty laws according to the model of the FOIA were inserted also in other countries.

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