Deleted Tweets on @FedRegister
| Tracking # |
FL-25990 |
| Submitted | Aug. 23, 2018 |
| Est. Completion | None |
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From: Muira McCammon
To Whom It May Concern:
This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act. I hereby request the following records:
I would like copies of all tweets deleted by the Twitter handle associated with the official Office of the Federal Register (@FedRegister) from October 2009 to the present. This would include any tweets sent out on Twitter that were deleted or kept in draft form from the Twitter handle @FedRegister. This request also would include copies of any e-mails or correspondence regarding the drafting and deletion of these tweets.
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.
I am a journalist whose works have appeared in Slate, VICE, the Massachusetts Review, Kill Screen, and elsewhere. This FOIA request is part of research for an ongoing piece of journalistic work, and as such, I am requesting a fee waiver. I have submitted versions of this FOIA request to other agencies, including the Office of Government Ethics, and in the process, I have been granted this fee waiver without question. My most recent article on this subject appeared in Slate in April 2018 and was titled “Can They Really Delete That?”.
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,
Muira McCammon
muira.mccammon@asc.upenn.edu
From: Office Of The Federal Register
Ms. McCammon:
You have requested copies of all tweets deleted by the Twitter handle
associated with the official Office of the Federal Register (@FedRegister)
from October 2009 to the present. This would include any tweets sent out on
Twitter that were deleted or kept in draft form from the Twitter handle
@FedRegister. This request also would include copies of any e-mails or
correspondence regarding the drafting and deletion of these tweets.
We are denying your request because have no records responsive to your
request. As a matter of both policy and practice, we don't delete tweets
and we don't carry draft tweets more than a few hours. I have confirmed
that we have not deleted any tweets in the past 2 years. Further, we have
no records of any tweets being deleted between 2009 and present, including
email and other correspondence.
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Sincerely,
Miriam Vincent
Staff Attorney, Legal Affairs and Policy Division
Office of the Federal Register
National Archives and Records Administration
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