In 2004, with Paul Moreira, he launched a freedom of information act (FOIA) campaign to lobby French politicians.
British pharmaceutical companies - which vigorously resist disclosure of safety data in the UK - regularly use the American Freedom of Information Act.
The desire for information and the general reticence to fulfill that need has made a Freedom of Information Act absolutely essential.
Only in February 2005 did an application under the freedom of information act finally unearth the allegedly " lost " document.
All Free Records.com is a website that has the stated goal of becoming a one-stop location to find data in order to obtain federal, state, county and local documents under the Freedom of Information Act and state and county statutes.