Correspondences on opioids
| Tracking # |
2018-00013-FOIA-OS |
| Submitted | Sept. 1, 2017 |
| Est. Completion | None |
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From: Andrew Joyce
To Whom It May Concern:
This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act. I hereby request the following records:
Please provide any correspondences that the Department of Health and Human Services had with any pharmaceutical company, employee of a pharmaceutical company, representative for a pharmaceutical company or any lobbying firm, concerning the potential decision to declare a state of emergency for the opioid crisis in the year 2017.
The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.
In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.
Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 20 business days, as the statute requires.
Sincerely,
Andrew Joyce
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To Whom It May Concern:
This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act. I hereby request the following records:
All materials relating to the Transhumanist movement, which advocates for technological enhancement of human ability. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumanism
All materials related to civilian attempts at human augmentation, such as implantation of RFID chips or magnetic implants.
The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.
In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.
Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 20 business days, as the statute requires.
Sincerely,
Nathanael King
From:
RE: 2018-00013-FOIA-OS Andrew Joyce MuckRock
Dear Mr. Joyce:
This is in response to your Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, dated: September 01, 2017, concerning “Requesting any correspondences that the Department of Health and Human Services had with any pharmaceutical company, employee of a pharmaceutical company, representative for a pharmaceutical company or any lobbying firm, concerning the potential decision to declare a state of emergency for the opioid crisis in the year 2017.”. We received your request on October 03, 2017 and have begun processing your request.
Sincerely,
Michael Bell Deputy Director
Main Office Line: 202-690-7453
From:
RE: 2018-00027-FOIA-OS Andrew Joyce MuckRock
Dear Mr. Joyce:
This is in response to your Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, dated: September 29, 2017, concerning “Requesting any and all documents and correspondences concerning the decision or potential decision to declare the U.S. opioid crisis a national health emergency that was created on or after January 21, 2017.”. We received your request on October 04, 2017 and have begun processing your request.
Sincerely,
Michael Bell Deputy Director
Main Office Line: 202-690-7453
From: Department of Health and Human Services
Case No.2018-00013-FOIA-OS June 09, 2020 Andrew Joyce
Reporter
MuckRock Dear Mr. Joyce: This office is presently conducting a review of our pendingFreedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to ascertain if the information subjectto the request is still desired. YourSeptember 01, 2017 FOIA request is a part of this review (copy enclosed). We apologize for the delay in responding to yourrequest. However, because of theincreasing number of requests received by the Department of Health & HumanServices, we found it necessary to adopt the ruling in the case of OpenAmerica v. Watergate Special Prosecution Force, 547 F.2d 605 (D.C. Cir.1976) and exercise due diligence by following a first-in, first-out FOIAprocessing. If you are still interested in pursuing this request, it does require clarification, in that you did not provide the names of HHS employees records to search. T he Office of the Chief Information Officer reports due to technology constraints, HHS cannot run a blind search against all users in HHS or an operating/staff division. Electronic searches run against our live email system and a search against all HHS employees would crash our system. Regarding the search terms, we would need the domain names for any pharmaceutical company, employee of a pharmaceutical company or its representative, and/or the name(s) of any lobbying firm(s) so that we could identify emails to or from a custodian to those entities. For example, “emails to or from Jane Doe (Jane.Doe@hhs.gov) and @organization.org or @commercial_entity.com” with specific key words and date ranges. If you provide clarification, we can complete the processing of your request. If we have not received any communication from you within 30working days from the date of this communication, we will assume you are no longerinterested in continuing to pursue the request and it will be administrativelyclosed. Thank you and kind regards. Sincerely, Natasha Taylor Government Information Specialist
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